Scout Space Inc., an in-space observation service provider focused on space security and comprehensive Space Domain Awareness (SDA), announces its optical payload dubbed “Sparrow,” launched aboard the Apex Aries bus on […]
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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. […]
Momentus’ contract with student team CalgaryToSpace for 2025 orbital delivery services
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, signed a contract with CalgaryToSpace (CTS) for transportation and orbital delivery […]
Loft Orbital: The rise of the virtual mission
For decades, satellites have been a valuable resource for understanding events on Earth in slow motion, from assessing damage from extreme weather, to forecasting crop outputs, to predicting economic activity […]
Big Earth imager to be tested on small Vega CubeSat
A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe’s next Vega launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth’s vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA’s decade-in-flight […]
NASA’s CAPSTONE primary mission successfully completed by Advanced Space
Advanced Space has successfully completed the six-month primary mission for CAPSTONE, the first commercial satellite to operate at the Moon. The CAPSTONE mission’s objective is to pioneer a new and […]
L3Harris selected by NASA to develop NOAA GeoXO Imager
L3Harris Technologies Inc. has been selected by NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to develop the imager for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. […]
EUMETSAT’s MTG-11 + two Intelsat satellites are successfully sent to orbit via an Arianespace Ariane 5 launch vehicle
On Tuesday, December 13th, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. local time, an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, successfully lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), carrying […]
LunIR launches and joins CAPSTONE as second lunar satellite this year
Terran Orbital Corporation a provider of satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the successful launch of LunIR. The Moon-mapping satellite is the second Terran Orbital-developed lunar […]
AAC Clyde Space’s Seahawk smallsat to continue ops
AAC Clyde Space has won a contract to continue to operate the Seahawk satellite for one more year, a contract that may be extended up to two years further provided […]