SpaceX is targeting Saturday, April 27 at 8:34 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A […]
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SpaceX has 2 weekend launches beginning with 2 satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system
SpaceX will launch 2 Galileo satellites into MEO from Europe’s Galileo navigation system on Saturday, April 27. The launch window is from 5:34 PM – 6:11 PM PDT Though SpaceX […]
Lynred wins Sentinel-2 NG mission pre-development contract to design advanced multispectral infrared detector
Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, today announces its selection, in an open bidding process, to develop an advanced multispectral […]
Thales Alenia Space to develop the radar instrument for ESA’s 10th Earth Explorer Harmony satellites mission
Thales Alenia Space, a Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a first 7M€ contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop the Earth Observation Synthetic Aperture […]
Sateloit’s 4 satellites will connect 7 million IoT devices, anticipating $1 Billion revenue by 2030
Sateliot is launching four new satellites. Sateliot, the first company to operate a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) 5G IoT satellite constellation acting as a seamless roaming extension of cellular networks, will […]
EarthCARE goes west for launch as ESA’s most complex Earth Explorer mission
The Airbus-built EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) spacecraft has left Munich, Germany, and is now on its way aboard an aircraft to its launch site in Vandenberg, California. […]
ESA to develop two new Scout satellites NanoMagSat and Tango for the New Space era
Further embracing the New Space era, ESA is to develop two new Scout satellites: NanoMagSat and Tango. NanoMagSat will measure Earth’s magnetic field to help assess space weather hazards and […]
Satellite the size of 6 tigers to crash into Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday – ESA
Though the ERS-2 satellite is huge as far as space debris goes, it is expected to safely fall to the Earth without causing any harm or damage. A European Space […]
Hellas Sat and Thales Alenia Space’s MoU will develop optical comms payload for Hellas Sat 5
Hellas Sat and Thales Alenia Space, a joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the development of an optical communication payload […]
ESA and the European Commission give the Flight Ticket Initiative to PLD Space for launch contracts
PLD Space has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission (EC) as one of the five companies that will launch institutional missions into space in […]