Firefly Alpha’s stage separation anomaly sends Lockheed Martin’s satellite into South Pacific near the Antarctic
Firefly Alpha rocket experienced a launch anomaly that left a Lockheed Martin satellite in a significantly “lower than planned orbit”, and the "stage and its payload reentered over the South Pacific near Antarctica," the aerospace company said on Tuesday, April ...
ESA launches Biomass satellite to provide ‘unprecedented insights into forests and Earth’s carbon cycle’
Biomass on its way to orbit. ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s ...
United Launch Alliance successfully launches Amazon’s first operational satellites
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. (April 28, 2025) A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper-1 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 7:01 p.m. EDT, marking the first of many full-scale launches in service ...
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SpaceX moves Wednesday’s launch of Starlink Group 6-75 smallsats to Thursday
SpaceX is now targeting Thursday, May 1, for a Falcon 9 launch of 28 Starlink smallsats to to low-Earth orbit for their smallsat constellation from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The four-hour ...
GomSpace joins ESA’s RAMSES mission to study near-Earth asteroid using advanced cubesat technology
GomSpace is participating in the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES), an innovative initiative led by the European Space Agency (ESA). The contract value is EUR 900,000. This mission aims at studying the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis during its ...
NEXT Semiconductor Technologies collaborates with BAE Systems to develop next generation space-qualified chips
NX450 Antenna Processor in 11x23mm BGA Package NEXT Semiconductor Technologies is collaborating with BAE Systems to accelerate the insertion of its latest, ultra-wideband, antenna processor units (APUs) into high-performing, radiation-hardened, electronic subsystems to support future space missions. NEXT’s APUs combine ...
SFL Missions Inc. continues legacy of smallsat development from Space Flight Laboratory (SFL)
SFL Missions Inc. is continuing the development of barrier-breaking, budget-aggressive, small satellite missions for commercial, government and academic customers worldwide by building upon the extraordinary legacy of Space Flight Laboratory (SFL). This evolution of customer-oriented service expands upon SFL’s 26-year ...
UP42 + Maxar partner to broaden global access to advanced commercial geospatial intelligence
UP42 has partnered with Maxar to make that company’s very high-resolution satellite imagery and tasking products available in the UP42 platform, broadening global access to the most advanced commercial geospatial intelligence. Artistic rendition of a Maxar Worldview Legion satellite on-orbit, ...
SpaceX will be busy with Starlink launches everyday from Thursday through Sunday
Beginning on Thursday, May 1, SpaceX's Falcon 9 will launch at 6:51 PM - 10:51 PM PDT Starlink Group 6-75 from Cape Canaveral sending a batch of 28 smallsats into low Earth orbit for the Starlink mega-constellation. The Falcon 9 ...
Rivada expands Outernet access to 33 countries + secures $16 billion+ in global business
Rivada Space Networks has secured market access to its Outernet constellation in 33 countries and every continent, with Belgium, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Costa Rica among the latest nations to soon offer next-generation communications capabilities. This goes hand in ...
AST SpaceMobile and U.S. National Science Foundation’s Coordination Agreement between satellite and ground-based astronomy operations
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), is building the first space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, has signed a Coordination Agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to implement best ...
Forrester’s Digest: Nilesat signs MoU with RASCOM
Cairo-based Middle East satellite operator Nilesat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RASCOM (Regional African Satellite Communications Organization) with the intention of boosting satellite technology collaboration across Africa and the Mid-East. The MoU is, in essence, a Marketing ...
Ground Control’s RockBLOCK Pro debuts as the world’s first certified Iridium Certus 9704 device
Ground Control has become the first Iridium partner to bring a certified Iridium Certus 9704 device to market: the ruggedized RockBLOCK Pro satellite IoT gateway. Powered by the new Iridium Certus® 9704 module and Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT), the RockBLOCK ...
