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Maritime Launch Services First Payload Services Provider Is Nanoracks — Spaceport Nova Scotia Is ‘Unveiled’

Maritime Launch Services, the owner of Canada’s first commercial spaceport, has announced that Nanoracks, a Voyager Space company and a leading, commercial, payload provider to the International Space Station (ISS), will serve as the company’s first client when Spaceport Nova Scotia’s operations go live in 2023. For this first mission, Nanoracks will deploy customer smallsats […]

Space Systems Command’s STP-3 Satellites Now Encapsulated Aboard ULA’s Atlas V 551 Launch Vehicle At Cape Canaveral AFS

Space Systems Command’s Space Test Program (STP)-3 integrated payload stack, which contains the STP Satellite (STPSat)-6 and the Long Duration Propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA), or  LDPE-1 space vehicles, has been encapsulated and mated with United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. STPSat-6 and LDPE-1 […]

Rocket Lab Launches Have The Support Of New Zealand’s Air Traffic Controllers

As Rocket Lab’s Electron rockets take off into space, New Zealand’s air traffic controllers are ensuring a safe passage through controlled airspace. Airways New Zealand, the country’s air navigation service provider, has supported Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches since 2017, when the aerospace organization launched its first rocket into space. Since then, 21 Electron rockets have been […]

Aussie’s Optus-11 Satellite To Be Launched By Arianespace’s Ariane 6

This satellite will expand the capacity of the operator’s current geostationary orbit constellation — making it the largest constellation ever deployed by an Australian company. Arianespace and Australian operator SingTel Optus have signed the launch contract for the Optus-11 communications satellite. The launch, scheduled for the second half of 2023, will use the Ariane 64 […]

RFA and Lúnasa’s MoU Will Provide Flexible Cost-Effective In-Orbit Services

These two companies are consolidating their partnership in the field of space logistics to offer small satellite customers flexible and cost-effective launch services. Lúnasa Ltd. and Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) have jointly signed a memorandum of understanding. The two companies are consolidating their partnership in the field of space logistics to offer small satellite […]

Rocket Lab Names A VP Of Government Operations + Business Strategy

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has appointed Andrew Bunker to the role of Vice President of Government Operations and Business Strategy, effective November 8, 2021. Mr. Bunker will be primarily responsible for the development and execution of company’s federal, state and local government strategy. Mr. Bunker will also play a leading role in strengthening […]

Setting The Stage For Launches From Japan Is Virgin Orbit’s MoU With ANA Holdings

Virgin Orbit in a planned business combination with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (“NextGen”) (NASDAQ: NGCA) has announced that the company has entered into a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with ANA HOLDINGS, INC., the owners of Japan’s largest airline, to procure 20 flights of the LauncherOne rocket and to lead the effort to provide funds and […]

The Orbex Environmentally Friendly Prime Rocket To Be Launched From Scotland

The carbon footprint of launching the new Orbex Prime space rocket will be up to 96 percent lower than comparable space launch programs, a new scientific study has revealed. Prime is poised to become one of the most environmentally friendly, orbital launch vehicles ever built, benefiting from the use of renewable, ultra-low-carbon biofuel. It is […]