Open Cosmos launched their 6U MENUT EO smallsat aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission on January 3, 2023, with the launch planned and overseen by Exolaunch. MENUT is part of the […]
Earth Observation (EO)
Airbus developing two EO satellites for Poland
Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with Poland to provide a geospatial intelligence system including the development, manufacture, launch and delivery on-orbit of two, high-performance, optical, EO satellites. […]
D-Orbit launches Second Star to the Right and two ION Satellite Carriers on seventh orbital transportation mission
D-Orbit, the space logistics and orbital transportation company, launched Second Star to the Right, the seventh commercial mission of ION Satellite Carrier (ION), D-Orbit’s proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), and […]
STAR VIBE smallsat demo mission gains orbit via SpaceX’s Transporter-6 launch
The STAR VIBE mission, which is the product of a collaboration between the Wrocław-based company Scanway Space and the German company German Orbital Systems, was launched into orbit on board […]
Planet Labs launches 36 SuperDove smallsats with SpaceX
Planet Labs PBC launched 36 of their SuperDove satellites, Flock 4y, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 3, 2023, at 9:56 a.m., ET (14:56 UTC), on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 […]
Stanford’s Sapling Sempervirens smallsat to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission
Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI), an undergraduate student group at Stanford University, will launch the Sapling Sempervirens (Sapling-1) satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. […]
Synspective’s 3rd SAR satellite, StriX-1’s, first image captured Venice’s lagoon in Italy
Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and analytics solution provider, has successfully acquired the image from its third SAR satellite, “StriX-1”. “StriX-1” was launched by Rocket Lab’s Electron from New […]
Flann Microwave assists with NASA’s SWOT satellite development
In 2015, Flann Microwave was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide critical hardware for the high-resolution radar components on a new multinational satellite, that being the SWOT […]
UPDATE 4: Arianespace + ESA appoint an independent inquiry mission to investigate the Flight VB22 launch failure
The Arianespace Vega C VV22 launch vehicle lifted off as scheduled on December 20, 2022 at 10:47 p.m. (local time in French Guiana). The lift-off, the mission and the separation […]
Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 RangeHawk supports NASA’s Artemis Mission
Northrop Grumman has announced that the Northrop Grumman Corporation’s RQ-4 RangeHawk supported the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the recent Artemis I mission. RangeHawk is […]