
SpaceX’s two launches in a weekend and plans for Falcon Heavy’s test for U.S. Space Force
Making for a a busy weekend, on Saturday, December 2 at 11:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 6-31 ...

UPDATE: Lift-off for EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first ever satellite
UPDATE: Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Hitching a ride on a Space-X Falcon-9 launcher, the tiny ...

UPDATE: SpaceX successfully launches the Korea 425 top secret mission with 25 smallsats on board
UPDATE: On a picture perfect Friday, December 1 at 10:19 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the Korea 425 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. There were a total ...
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HawkEye 360’s inaugural satellite cluster “Pathfinder” celebrates 5 years in space
HawkEye 360 Inc. is celebrating the firm's inaugural satellite launch five years ago — the three Pathfinder satellites launched on December 3, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — ...

Airbus receives ESA TRUTHS mission contract
Airbus has been awarded the latest phase in the European Space Agency (ESA) TRUTHS mission as part of ESA’s Earth Observation Earth Watch program — the 109.3 million euros contract covers detailed definition of the mission and payload, and focuses ...

NOAA using new cloud-based system + business model to supply data from older environmental satellite fleet
A trio of polar satellites that were once frontline in NOAA's ability to predict weather and climate from space, are now operated through a new, cloud-based commercial engineering services contract called POES Extended Life. When NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite Series ...

Vyoma awarded 2 Space Launches by DLR
Vyoma has been distinguished in multiple categories of the smallsat competitions organized by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) — these prestigious awards were announced during the 2023 Small Satellite Conference in Berlin on November 23, ...

Zenno’s superconducting technology opens a universe of new possibilities in space
Zenno Astronautics (Zenno) has celebrated the first space launch of Z01™, the company's world-first, superconducting, magnetic torquer for fuel-free spacecraft attitude control — Zenno’s on-orbit validation of Z01 is the first-ever demonstration of high-temperature superconducting electromagnets in space, unlocking new ...

AAC Clyde Space awarded MagQuest mission contract
AAC Clyde Space has been selected by Iota Technology to execute an end-to-end satellite mission as part of MagQuest, a multimillion-dollar competition to advance how to measure Earth's magnetic field. The mission will see a 4U EPIC satellite, equipped with ...

Amazon secures 3 launches with SpaceX to support Project Kuiper deployment
Amazon has signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment plans for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s LEO satellite broadband network. Project Kuiper satellites were designed from the start to accommodate multiple launch providers and vehicles, allowing ...

Marble Imaging + Scanway Space developing a VHR Multispectral satellite constellation
Marble Imaging and Scanway Space have entered into a strategic partnership for the joint development of the multispectral payload for a constellation of smallsats for EO, owned by Marble Imaging. The targeted constellation will include as many as 200 satellites ...

Vector Space Biosciences reveals smallsat drug repurposing platform using data from space
Vector Space Biosciences, Inc., in collaboration with Oracle and NVIDIA, has a new smallsat launch platform designed for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The platform is powered by… 1) A biosciences lab 2) A CubeSat lab 3) A language modeling/AI lab ...

Marlink adds Starlink + Eutelsat OneWeb to PONANT hybrid network for 1st triple LEO North Pole service
Marlink has completed the integration of Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb LEO internet services on PONANT’s Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s only luxury icebreaker, to provide all three LEO solutions for the ship’s polar itineraries. The installation is the first in the ...