UPDATE: On Friday, April 14 at 11:48 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched Transporter-7, SpaceX’s seventh dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base […]
Hosted Payload
Airbus selects Blacktree Technology to provide ground segment for UHF military satcom services across Australasia
Airbus Defence and Space has selected Blacktree Technology Pty Ltd of Perth, Australia, to provide the ground segment for the Airbus funded UHF military communications hosted payload on-board a commercial telecommunications satellite manufactured by […]
GHGSat to launch 6 high-resolution emission monitoring satellites in 2023
GHGSat will be launching six additional satellites in 2023 — the first three are GHGSat satellites, named Mey-Lin (C6), Gaspard (C7) and Océane (C8) and they will travel into orbit […]
Vast acquires Launcher to accelerate manufacturing, development and spacecraft technologies
To accelerate its mission to expand humanity across the solar system by developing long term human habitation in space, Vast has acquired space startup Launcher. Vast is building an artificial […]
General Atomics GAzelle satellite completes post launch acceptance review
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) recently launched GAzelle satellite that is hosting NOAA‘s Argos-4 and RadMon payloads has successfully completed its on-orbit, Post Launch Acceptance Review (PLAR). All components are […]
SSC delivers the first hosted payload to Japan in historic USSF partnership
Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Domain Awareness & Combat Power (SDACP) Directorate has delivered the first of two payloads to Japan, placing the United States and Japan one step closer […]
Spiral Blue’s SE-1 computer reaches orbit
The Space Edge One computer (SE-1), developed by Australian startup Spiral Blue, launched as a hosted payload aboard a Satellogic NewSat spacecraft on the Transporter-6 rideshare mission, which left Earth […]
D-Orbit signs payload hosting contract with SpacePNT
D-Orbit recently signed a hosted payload contract with SpacePNT, a Swiss company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of low cost, high-accuracy, GNSS receivers for the New Space satellite […]
Quantum Space and partners plan for superhighway mission between Earth and the Moon
Quantum Space (Quantum) today announced their first operational mission to cislunar space will launch in October 2024 and will include partners GEOST, LLC and Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT). Known as […]
Spire Global’s space services agreement with GHGSat will launch satellites for greenhouse gas emissions monitoring
Spire Global, Inc., provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, announced a Space Services agreement with GHGSat, a leader in high-resolution methane monitoring from space, to expand its satellite […]