SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster
All began smoothly as SpaceX's Starship tore through the skies from Boca Chica, Texas with 33 out of 33 engines working to send it on it's seventh flight test. All photos provided by Satnews. As the journey continued ground control ...
Exolaunch delivers 34 satellites to orbit during the Transporter-12 Rideshare Mission with SpaceX
Exolaunch successfully delivered 34 satellites for its global customers across 17 countries.Artistic rendition of the smallsats on-orbit is courtesy of SpaceX. Exolaunch has successfully delivered 34 satellites into orbit during the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX which launched from Vandenberg ...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn reaches orbit after successful Thursday launch, “Today marks a new era”
New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. New Glenn’s seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, 2025, at 2:03 a.m. EST (0703 UTC) from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...
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Slingshot Aerospace to provide tech to USSF to detect GPS jamming + spoofing threats
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. has been awarded $1.9 million from the United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to further develop Slingshot’s existing GPS jamming and spoofing detection, as well as more precisely geolocate the sources and predict patterns ...
Rocket Lab’s 2nd reentry class spacecraft for Varda operating on-orbit supporting payloads for AFRL + NASA
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced its second Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, Inc. is successfully operating on orbit — the mission launched on January 14, from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Varda’s W-2 mission includes a Rocket ...
Barclays Bank is positive on AST SpaceMobile L-band meaningful addition
Analysts at Barclays have joined a growing number of researchers favoring AST SpaceMobile (AST). A report from the bank explains to investors the background to AST’s recent agreement with Ligado Networks, and says the additional L-band spectrum acquired by AST ...
Nokia signs video tech license deal with Samsung
Nokia has signed a multi-year patent license agreement with Samsung covering the use of Nokia’s video technologies in Samsung’s televisions. Under the agreement, Samsung will make royalty payments to Nokia. The new agreement is separate from Nokia and Samsung’s existing ...
SpaceX’s Starship flight test seven now on Thursday
The seventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Thursday, January 16. The 60-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT. SpaceX was scheduled to launch Starship from Boca Chica, Texas, at around 5 p.m. EST, but announced ...
Planet launches high-resolution Pelican-2 satellite plus 36 SuperDoves
Artistic rendition of Planet's Pelican-2 satellite, courtesy of the company. Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL) has announced the company's high-resolution Pelican-2 satellite and 36 SuperDoves of Flock 4G were successfully launched to orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 Rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space ...
Lockheed Martin delivers 1st Aegis system equipped vessel radar antenna to Japan MoD
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) successfully delivered the first AN/SPY-7(V)1 radar antenna for the Aegis System Equipped Vessel (ASEV) to the Japan Ministry of Defense — the delivery was made through Mitsubishi Corporation under a Direct Commercial Sale (DCS) arrangement after ...
L3Harris showcases robotic drone detection capability for U.S. Army
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has successfully demonstrated a new drone detection and defeat capability for its T7 robot system at Vanguard 24, an annual capstone experiment the U.S. Army hosts at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The T7 is a large robotic system ...
SpaceX’s Starlink Group 11-8 smallsats to launch on Saturday
This is a batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation. Photo courtesy of Explore Lompoc SpaceX's Falcon 9 will launch Starlink Group 11-8 smallsats to low Earth orbit on Saturday from Vandenberg AFB at 7:57 AM - 12:28 PM PST, ...
