The German Government and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have awarded Isar Aerospace with an 11 million euros contract through their C-STS program that is managed by the European Space […]
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Firefly Aerospace Now Valued @ $1B+ After Close Of Series A Financing
Firefly Aerospace has successfully completed their Series A financing. The $75 million Series A, which valued the company at greater than $1 billion, was led by DADA Holdings, with participation […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches 60 Starlinks
On Wednesday, April 28 at 11:44 p.m. EDT, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the […]
United Launch Alliance Honors Three Small Businesses For Their Support
United Launch Alliance recently honored three suppliers with a 2020 Small Business Excellence award for their support of the Vulcan Centaur program. The Vulcan Centaur is ULA’s next-generation rocket that […]
Astrobotic Selects SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket for Griffin-VIPER Moon Mission
Astrobotic announced its selection of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon in late 2023. Griffin will be carrying […]
Amazon Selects ULA For Kuiper Launches
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced that Amazon has secured Atlas V for nine launches supporting deployment of their ambitious Project Kuiper initiative that will increase global broadband access through […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard Successfully Launches The NS-15 Mission
Blue Origin successfully completed their 15th consecutive mission to space and back on April 14 and conducted a series of simulations to rehearse astronaut movements and operations for future flights with customers on board. […]
Final Acceptance Test For The RS-68A Rocket Engine Completed By Aerojet Rocketdyne For ULA’s Delta IV Heavy
Aerojet Rocketdyne‘s RS-68A, completed its final hot-fire acceptance test for use on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle on the B-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-15 Flight Set For April 14
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-15 flight is targeting liftoff on Wednesday, April 14, from Launch Site One in West Texas. The launch window opens at 8:00 AM CDT / 13:00 UTC. Building on the incremental and consecutive mission successes for the vehicle over the […]
ILS + Express Celebrate 25th Anniversary Of The 1st Combined Russian, US + European Launch
Twenty-five years ago, on April 9, 1996, a combined Russian, American and European team made space history with the first launch of a Western satellite onboard a Russian rocket. The […]