On Wednesday, June 8th, the Nilesat 301 satellite was lifted to a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GEO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The two-hour and 29 minute launch window opened at 5:04 p.m. ET, 21:04 UTC. The Falcon 9 first stage […]
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GHGSat adds 3 more satellites to their methane emissions monitoring constellation with ADD optical sensors aboard
GHGSat launched three, new, ABB-built optical sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard the Transporter-5 mission late last month, doubling the capacity to monitor methane gas emissions. With ABB’s technology, the GHGSat team is able to precisely locate and measure methane emissions from any given industrial […]
Spaceflight launches five customer payloads aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission and debuts the firm’s latest OTV — Sherpa-AC
Spaceflight Inc. has contacted its Sherpa-AC vehicle and confirmed the vehicle is operating nominally. This is the debut launch of Sherpa-AC, the latest variation in the company’s Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) portfolio. The Transporter 5 rideshare mission on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on May 25 headed to SSO, […]
Satellogic Announces Successful SpaceX Launch Of Four Additional Satellites
By 2025, the Company aims to have over 200 satellites in orbit to provide daily remaps of the entire surface of the Earth, and up to 40 revisits of points of interest per day. Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (“EO”) data collection, announced the launch of four additional satellites from Cape […]
SpaceX Transporter-5 Rideshare Mission Successfully Launches From Cape Canaveral SFS
On Wednesday, May 25th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-5 mission to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 57 minute launch window opened at 2:35 p.m., ET, or 18:35 UTC. The Falcon 9 flew along Florida’s eastern coast over the ocean and may […]
Exolaunch’s 5th Rideshare Mission Successfully Gains Orbits After Being Launched Aboard The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission
In the company’s fifth rideshare mission with SpaceX and 16th mission in total, Exolaunch, a global provider of launch, in-space logistics and deployment services, completed the firm’s most demanding integration, with more than 1500 kg. of payload mass across 20+ satellites for the firm’s international customers from 11 countries and three continents. Exolaunch’s customer satellites […]
Spaceflight’s New Sherpa-AC Satellite Servicing Spacecraft Is Being Prepared For Launch
Spaceflight is preparing to debut the company’s new Sherpa-AC vehicle on the upcoming Transporter 5 rideshare mission. The Sherpa-AC will be onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 that is scheduled to launch to SSO on May 25, 2022, at 2:35 p.m., ET, from Cape Canaveral. Organizations on Spaceflight’s Transporter 5 mission include Xona Space’s Huginn, NearSpace […]
Terran Orbital Delivers The PTD-3 Satellite To Cape Canaveral SFS For Integration Into The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has delivered the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for integration ahead of SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission. PTD-3 is a 6-unit (6U) cubesat built and integrated by Terran Orbital to host and support launch and on-orbit operations of the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery […]
Terran Orbital Ships Two GeoOptics Satellites To Cape Canaveral For Integration Into SpaceX’s Transporter-5 Rideshare Mission
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has shipped two, next-generation satellites from GeoOptics — Terran shipped the vehicles to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission. The spacecraft are the first phase of GeoOptics’s CICERO-2 constellation, which will form a unified Earth observatory that will enable governments, industry and individual stakeholders to monitor and prepare […]
Finland’s 1st Science Smallsat, Foresail-1, Is Ready For Space + A Summer SpaceX Launch
Foresail-1, the first satellite from the Finnish Center of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space, is now ready for space. “With the help of long-term funding from the Academy of Finland, we have created the first scientific space program in Finland, which aims to develop more sustainable space technology,” said Professor Minna Palmroth from the […]