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Launch Update: D-Orbit has launched 2 OTV Missions with their ION Satellite Carrier

July 9, 2025

On June 23, 2025, D-Orbit launched Space Bound and Skytrail, the 18th and 19th commercial missions of ION Satellite Carrier (ION), the firm’s orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-14 […]

Filed Under: D-Orbit, Engines / Thrusters, German Aerospace Center (DLR), ION Satellite Carrier, Lacuna Space, Launch, Launch and Early Operations (LEOPs), Launch Development, Launch Facilities, Launch Providers, Launch Support, Launch Vehicle, LEMUR Smallsats (SPIRE), Magdrive, News, Pale Blue, Plan-S [Turkey], Satellite-as-a-Service, SmallSat, Smallsat Deployment, Smallsat Dispenser System, Smallsat Fleet, Smallsat Launch, Smallsat Launches, Smallsat Markets, Smallsat Missions, Smallsat Payloads, SmallSat Technologies, smallsats, Smallsats VLEO, Spire Global, SSO, Sun Synchronous (SSO), Telepix, University of Vienna, Vandenberg SFB, Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), VLEO

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

ULA’s Vulcan rocket’s new era of space capability for our country, certifies to launch national Security Space Launch missions

March 26, 2025

Following years of development and completing a comprehensive certification plan including two successful certification missions, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket has been certified by the United States Space […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Certification, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Collaboration, Engines / Thrusters, GSO, Hardware, Milestone, Military, National Security Space Launch, NSSLGlobal, President, Rocket Certification Test Flilght, Russia, Software, Solid Rocket Boosters, Subsystems, Test Readienss Review, U.S. Air Force, United Launch Alliance, United States Space Force (USSF), Vulcan

SpaceX Starship 8 test results — some good, some not so good

March 6, 2025

SpaceX’s eighth flight test proved to be similar to the seventh with Starship’s engine trouble, however, unlike the seventh test flight the eighth test flight was able to return the […]

Filed Under: Engine Control Electronics, Engines / Thrusters, Launch, Launch Delay, SpaceX, Starship, Starship (SpaceX)

Firefly Aerospace, just 4 days from Moon landing, shows Blue Ghost – low lunar orbit Moon footage

February 26, 2025

Firefly Aerospace is now less than 4 days from landing on the Moon and just released more footage captured during Blue Ghost’s third lunar orbit maneuver on February 24 that […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Engines / Thrusters, Lunar Orbit, Moon, Solar Eclipse, Subsystems Tagged With: Featured

New year. New ship. New lessons.

February 24, 2025

The seventh flight test of Starship and Super Heavy flew with ambitious goals, aiming to successfully repeat the core capability of returning and catching a booster while launching an upgraded […]

Filed Under: Booster, Booster Recovery, Debris Mitigation, Engines / Thrusters, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), News, Reusable, Reusable Rocket, Separation Systems, SpaceX, Starship, Starship (SpaceX), United Kingdom (UK), Vacuum Testing

SpaceX Starship to fly 25 launches in 2025

November 13, 2024

SpaceX’s giant 400 ft tall Starship will make a sixth test flight on November 19th, subject to the usual weather and last-minute technical checks. The fifth flight saw the ‘super […]

Filed Under: Booster, Booster Recovery, Data Acquisition, Engines / Thrusters, Launch, Launch Development, Launch Preparations, Launch Projection, Launcher, Propellant, Propellant Systems, SpaceX, Starship, Starship (SpaceX), Thermal Tagged With: Featured

Rocket Lab finally launches ‘Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes’ customer may be E-Space

November 5, 2024

It was a long journey that began as Rockeet Lab prepared for a launch in record breaking time for an unknown client. The launch contract was signed less than two […]

Filed Under: Cubesats, E-SPACE, Electron, Engines / Thrusters, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Mission, Mission Control, New Zealand, Payloads, Rideshare, Rocket Lab, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Weather Forecasting

Rocket Lab changes ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’ launch to Tuesday

November 3, 2024

Looks like Tuesday, November 5, at 02:30 AM (UTC-8), 2:30 AM PST Rocket Lab will be launching ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’. Launch of a yet to identified satellite […]

Filed Under: Aerospace Corporation, Business Moves, Contracts, Cubesats, E-SPACE, Electron, Engines / Thrusters, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Mission, Mission Control, New Zealand, Payloads, Rideshare, Rideshare Mission, Rocket Lab, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Weather Forecasting

Boeing “adjusts” Starliner return, again, of NASA’s astronauts and reluctance to seek SpaceX’s help with Crew Dragon

June 24, 2024

The first astronaut mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule has been extended again, with the spacecraft set to remain docked with the International Space Station (ISS) until at least July 2. […]

Filed Under: Aerospace, Astronaut Missions, Astronauts, Aurora, Boeing, Boeing Starliner, Certification, Dragon Spacecraft (SpaceX), Engines / Thrusters, Government Funding, Harmony Module, International Space Station (ISS), NASA, NASA Commercial Crew Program, Propulsion, Space Missions, Spacewalking System, SpaceX, SpaceX Crew Mission Tagged With: Featured

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