The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is partnering with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) on the historic, first commercial rocket to be launched from the UK, as announced […]
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Virgin Orbit To Launch The QPS-SAR-5 Satellite
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) has signed a launch services agreement with Japanese Earth Observation (EO) constellation operator Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (“iQPS”) — the satellite is expected […]
Terran Orbital Ships NASA’s CAPSTONE Smallsat To New Zealand For Rocket Lab’s Launch Vehicle Payload Integration
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has shipped their CAPSTONE satellite to a launch site on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. CAPSTONE will launch on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket […]
Terran Orbital Ships Two GeoOptics Satellites To Cape Canaveral For Integration Into SpaceX’s Transporter-5 Rideshare Mission
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has shipped two, next-generation satellites from GeoOptics — Terran shipped the vehicles to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission. The spacecraft are the […]
Acquisition Of L3Harris Space + Navigation Business Completed By EMCORE Corp.
EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq: EMKR) has completed the acquisition of the L3Harris (NYSE: LHX) Space and Navigation business for approximately $5 million in an all-cash transaction, subject to any net working […]
Catch Me If You Can — And They Did — Rocket Lab’s “There And Back Again Mission” Deploys 34 Satellites To Orbit + A First… The Electron Booster Is Captured With A Helicopter
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) successfully launched their 26th Electron mission, deploying 34 satellites to orbit — the company has now deployed a total of 146 […]
Launched From Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-40 Are 53 Additional SpaceX Starlink Satellites
On Friday, April 29, at 5:27 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]
UPDATE #2: Rocket Lab’s “There and Back Again” Mission With A Mid-Air Attempt To Capture The Falcon 9’s 1st Stage Is Now Pushed Out To No Earlier Than May 1st
Due to weather challenges, Rocket Lab is pushing the launch of their “There and Back Again” rideshare mission to no earlier than May 1st, with a launch window of 22:35 […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches The Four Astronaut Crew-4 Mission To The ISS
On Wednesday, April 27, at 3:52 a.m. ET, 7:52 UTC, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s fourth science expedition mission Crew-4 to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A […]
Forrester’s Digest: Measat-3d + India’s GSAT-24 + OneWeb Working On India Approvals
Measat’s latest satellite, their 3d ‘triple payload’ with Ku-, Ka-, C-band and even L-band on board, is due to launch on June 22nd — also on board the Arianespace rocket […]