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Firefly Alpha’s stage separation anomaly sends Lockheed Martin’s satellite into South Pacific near the Antarctic

April 29, 2025

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 […]

Filed Under: Aerospace, Aerospace Corporation, Alpha Missions (FIrefly), Anomaly, Anomaly Detection, Antarctica, Buses, Business Moves, Contracts, Demonstrations, Development, Engines / Thrusters, Firefly Aerospace, Launch Delay, Lockheed Martin, Mission, Mission Agreement, Orbit, Payload Development, SmallSat, Smallsat Launch, Smallsat Launch Vehicles, South Pacific, Statement Tagged With: Featured

ESA launches Biomass satellite to provide ‘unprecedented insights into forests and Earth’s carbon cycle’

April 29, 2025

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 […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Earth Watch Program [ESA], ESA, European Space Agency (ESA), Forest Biomass, Forestry, Ground Station Tracking, Ground Stations, Launch, Launch Agreement Tagged With: Featured

Australia’s Optus X payload or TD7 satellite on secret mission is launched by SpaceX from Florida

November 17, 2024

On Sunday, November 17 at 5:28 p.m. ET, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the TD7 mission to orbit at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Australia, Falcon 9, GEO, Government of New Zealand, Intelsat, Launch Complex 39A (Kennedy Space Center), Mission Extension Pod (MEP), Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), New Zealand, Northrop Grumman, Optus, satBroadcasting, SpaceLogistics, SpaceX, Weather Forecasting

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch second NOAA’s GOES-U weather satellite Tuesday after leak causes delay

June 24, 2024

NOAA and SpaceX have finally set a date to launch the last satellite of the GOES-R Series into geostationary orbit on June 25 after a lengthy delay due to a […]

Filed Under: Africa, Antarctica, Booster, Environmental Satellite, Falcon Heavy, GOES-16 / GOES East, GOES-R, Kennedy Space Center, NOAA, SpaceX, Weather Satellites

Rocket Lab completes second launch for NASA’s PREFIRE and Ice climate science mission

June 4, 2024

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) a global provider of launch services and space systems, today successfully completed the second of two Electron launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Arctic, Climate Change Assessments, Climate Monitoring, CubeSat, Cubesats, Electron, NASA, New Zealand, Polar Region, Rocket Lab, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, SmallSat Tagged With: Featured

New Shepard’s crewed NS-25 mission aims at May 19

May 15, 2024

Blue Origin announces that its seventh human flight, NS-25, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Sunday, May 19. The launch window opens at 8:30 AM […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Blue Origin, Crewed Mission, Crewed Spacecraft, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, France, LEO, NATO, New Shepard, Shuttle, STEM, U.S. Air Force

Comtech partners with Eutelsat OneWeb to deliver LEO connectivity services to Antarctica

April 16, 2024

Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) has announced the initiation of trial services to deliver LEO satellite connectivity services to multiple regions of Antarctica. Launched in January of 2024, the service provides connectivity […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Comms, Comtech, Constellation, Constellations, ELEVATE, Eutelsat Group, Eutelsat OneWeb, LEO, LEO Connectivity, SmallSat, smallsats, Trial LEO Connectivity Service, VSAT, VSAT Network

NOAA and SpaceX’s GOES-U weather satellite launch June 25 after leak causes delay

March 28, 2024

NOAA and SpaceX have finally set a date to launch the last satellite of the GOES-R Series into geostationary orbit on June 25 after a lengthy delay due to a […]

Filed Under: Africa, Antarctica, Arctic, Environmental Satellite, Geostationary Orbit (GEO), GOES-R, New Zealand, NOAA, Solid Rocket Boosters, SpaceX, Weather

Space X’s two scrubs then a launch finally send U.S. military’s Space Development Agency’s 13 satellites soaring

September 4, 2023

Following two scrubs the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on schedule with 13 demonstration satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency (SDA) at 7:25 a.m. PDT (10:25 a.m. […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Constellations, Earth Observation (EO), Falcon 9, Military, Missile Tracking, Satellites, SDA, SpaceX Tagged With: Featured

KSAT expands their global ground network including four antennas in Antarctica

February 7, 2023

 Announcement from SmallSat Symposium 2023, Mountain View, California, February 7 KSAT is currently installing 4 new antennas in Antarctica, expanding their capacity in the U.S. by adding multiple antennas in […]

Filed Under: Antarctica, Antennas, Antennas / Terminals, Ground Network, KSAT, SmallSat Symposium 2023

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