Orbex has commissioned AMCM to build the largest industrial 3D printer in Europe, allowing this UK-based space launch company to rapidly print complex rocket engines in-house. The custom-made, large volume, […]
Launch Vehicle
Spaceflight Celebrating Ten Years Of Smallsat Launch Accomplishments
Spaceflight Inc. is celebrating their 10th anniversary. Since the company’s founding, the company has launched more than 300 satellites across 36 missions on eight different launch vehicles. During Spaceflight’s 10 […]
SENER Aeroespacial To Initiate Additional Development On The Nav Unit For AVIO’s Vega-C Launcher
SENER Aeroespacial has signed a contract with AVIO for the C/D phases of the navigation unit for the VEGA-C launcher, VNE (VEGA-C Navigation Equipment), after successfully completing phases A (feasibility […]
Mission-Critical Avionics + Services For ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Contracted To L3Harris Technologies
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has extended L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) contract to provide mission-critical avionics and related services in support of the Vulcan Centaur rocket for U.S. Space Force launches. More […]
General Atomics EMS Selects Firefly Aerospace To Take MAIA To Orbit
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has awarded a contract to Firefly Aerospace Inc. to launch a GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) […]
UPDATE 1: Perseverance Pays Off — ULA Lands NASA’s Rover Successfully Landing On Mars
Cheers erupted in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as controllers confirmed that NASA’s Perseverance rover, with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attached to its belly, has touched down safely […]
Rocket Factory Initiates A New Financing Round
At the Capital Market Day of space technology group OHB SE (Prime Standard, ISIN DE0005936124), Augsburg-based start-up Rocket Factory announced the company will boost the growth of the microlauncher company […]
Musk Vs. Bezos: The Battle Continues
Article by Chris Forrester, Senior Contributor, Satnews Publishers The planet’s two richest individuals, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, are involved in a bitter slanging match over their satellite broadband mega-constellations. […]
Direct From SmallSat Symposium, Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Galactic, + Dan Hart, President + CEO, Virgin Orbit, Keynote Address
Chris Stott, Executive Chairman, Mansat, was the moderator of this extremely interesting interview of Sir Richard Branson, the Founder of Virgin Galactic, and Dan Hart, the President and Chief Executive […]
Launch Services Agreement Signed Between Firefly Aerospace + Exolaunch
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. now has a Launch Services Agreement with Exolaunch GmbH to integrate and launch multi-satellite clusters aboard Firefly’s Alpha launch vehicle starting in 2022. Just weeks away from […]