Blue Origin has announced their New Glenn has been selected for 12 launches, with options for as many as 15 additional launches, to deploy Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite constellation. Project Kuiper’s constellation of 3,236 advanced satellites aims to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband service around the globe. The launches are manifested for a five-year period from […]
Launch Facilities
Arianespace Signs Their Largest Contract With Amazon for 18 Ariane 6 Launches To Deploy Project Kuiper Constellation Satellites To Orbit
The highest performing version of Arianespace‘s Ariane 6, the Ariane 64, will be used over three years to orbit satellites of the Project Kuiper broadband constellation. Arianespace and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced this unprecedented launch service contract during the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 5. Under the terms of the contract, […]
Sending Their 112th Satellite To Orbit For BlackSky Is Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY), bringing the total number of satellites deployed by Rocket Lab to 112. The ‘Without Mission A Beat’ launch, arranged for BlackSky through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., was Electron’s 25th lift-off from Rocket […]
SpaceX Sends 40 Various Spacecraft To SSO With Successful Transporter-4 Launch At Canaveral
SpaceX successfully launched the Transporter-4 via a Falcon 9 rocket to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch window opened at 12:24 p.m. ET, or 16:24 UTC. Falcon 9 flew on a southern trajectory along Florida’s eastern coast and was occasionally visible […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard 20 Successfully Launches With A Crew Of Six Passengers
Blue Origin has successfully completed their fourth human spaceflight and 20th overall flight for New Shepard. The astronaut manifest included: Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen, Gary Lai, and Dr. George Nield. “Congratulations to our astronauts on today’s mission above the Kármán Line,” said Phil Joyce, Senior Vice President of New Shepard for […]
Sidus Space’s LizzieSat’s™ Forward Progression To The ISS Aboard Nasa’s Resupply Services Rocket
LS is expected to be delivered to the ISS through NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract and deployed from a Japanese Experimentation Module (JEM) Airlock using the Space Station Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payloads (SSIKLOPS) managed by Sidus Space. Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, […]
High Winds Delay New Shepard Mission
Due to forecasted high winds during launch and recovery operations on Tuesday, March 29, and Wednesday, March 30, the New Shepard Mission Operations team has made the decision to move the launch of NS-20 to Thursday, March 31. The team has completed Flight Readiness Review and confirmed the vehicle has met all mission requirements for […]
Rocket Lab To Launch BlackSky Earth Imaging Satellites From Launch Complex 1 In New Zealand
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab”) has announced the launch window for the company’s next Electron mission. This is a dedicated mission for BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., starting April 1, 2022 UTC. This launch window opening in April rather than March is weather related and will result […]
E-Space To Launch Demo Satellites In Q2 Via A Rocket Lab Electron
E-Space will launch their first demo satellites during Q2 2022 to validate the systems and technology for the company’s sustainable satellite system. This announcement marks an unprecedented timeline, according to the company, for taking a a new space innovation from idea to reality as E-Space moves to swiftly build the most sustainable, secure and cost-effective […]
Fifty-three Starlink Satellites Soar And Rocket Booster Breaks Records Returning Home For The Twelfth Time
Using advanced satellites in a low orbit, Starlink enables video calls, online gaming, streaming, and other high data rate activities that historically have not been possible with satellite internet. On Saturday, March 19 at 12:24 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral […]