Ovzon recently completed an overland expedition to the High North, successfully validating the performance, mobility, and resiliency of the Ovzon 3 satellite and the Ovzon T6 and Ovzon T7 mobile […]
Arctic
NOAA satellites capture the chilling impact of polar vortex
The new year has gotten off to a cold and snowy start with the polar vortex affecting much of the United States along with the first coast-to-coast storm of 2025. […]
EnduroSat’s satellite imagery is being used by Arctic explorers
The third voyage of the RSV 421 to the icy continent started late last year from the Port of Varna. Thanks to the lab, the crew will be able to […]
Mechanical issue delays ESA’s Vega-C’s launch of Sentinel-1C to Thursday
Update: launch postponed to Thursday 5 December 2024. Due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry, the launch chronology has been stopped. The earliest targeted launch […]
Norway officially licensed to launch at Andøya Spaceport
Less than one year after the opening of the Norwegian spaceport at Andøya, Andøya Spaceport has reached yet another important milestone towards the first launch of satellites from Norwegian soil. […]
SpaceX launches Space Norway Arctic Satellite Broadband mission on a foggy California evening
With one million pounds of fuel a foggy California Pacific Ocean site was the scene of SpaceX’s launch of Space Norway Arctic Satellite Broadband mission. Liftoff was exactly at 7:02 […]
SpaceX is finally ready for Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, August 11 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Space Norway Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) to Molniya transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) […]
SpaceX to launch Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission August 11-12
After a delay from the original launch date of July 15th, 2024, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission August 11-12, consisting of two satellites owned […]
DoD’s 2024 Arctic Strategy publication “is critical to the defense of our homeland”
Today, the Department of Defense (DOD) released its 2024 DOD Arctic Strategy. This is the first update to DOD’s approach to the region since 2019. “The Arctic region of the […]
SpaceX launches NOAA’s “monumental” GOES-U mission claiming “the nation’s most advanced weather observing and environmental monitoring satellite system”
On Tuesday, June 25 at 5:26 p.m. ET, Falcon Heavy launched the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U mission to a geostationary orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at […]