NASA’s Artemis I mission came to a successful conclusion on December 11th with the splashdown and recovery of the Orion spacecraft — this mission was an uncrewed, integrated flight test […]
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UPDATE 2: ispace’s HAKUTOR-R mission 1 successfully launched by SpaceX
On Sunday, December 11 at 2:38 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Lunar Flashlight to a lunar transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex […]
Precious Payload allies with Maritime Launch + adds Canada’s 1st commercial spaceport to the Launch.ctrl marketplace for smallsat interests
Precious Payload allies with Maritime Launch, adding Canada’s 1st commercial spaceport to the Launch.ctrl marketplace Precious Payload has partnered with Maritime Launch Services Inc. (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF), the owner […]
INNOSPACE schedules their 1st suborbital rocket for smallsats test flight
INNOSPACE, a South Korean, private, spaceflight startup for smallsat launch vehicles, set the launch window from December 14 to December 21 (Brasilia Time, BRT) as the first rocket engine test […]
UPDATE 1: OneWeb 1 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center
On Thursday, December 8 at 5:27 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched the OneWeb 1 mission to LEO from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was […]
DLR selects seven customers for RFA´s inaugural flight
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have announced the winners of the microlauncher payload competition — according to the announcement, seven companies with a total payload […]
OQ Technology’s MACSAT 5G IoT mission launch date revealed
Following the recent 13 million euro Series A funding round, OQ Technology has announced March of 2023 as the planned launch date for the MACSAT mission. The on-orbit pathfinder mission, […]
UPDATE 1: Ready for Falcon 9 push — NASA’s Lunar Flashlight smallsat now set for December 1st launch
When NASA’s Lunar Flashlight launches, the smallsat will start a three month journey, with mission navigators guiding the spacecraft far past the Moon. The smallsat will then be slowly pulled […]
Europe’s new weather satellite fueled + prepped for a December 13th launch
With liftoff now scheduled for December 13th., Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite has been fueled — once in geostationary orbit, this new weather satellite will provide state-of-the […]
SubOrbital Express 3 mission carries 12 payloads to space from the Esrange Space Center
Following two-and-a-half years of preparation, on Wednesday, November 23rd, the SubOrbital Express 3 mission launched from Swedish Space Corporation‘s Esrange Space Center located above the Polar Circle in Northern Sweden. […]