Virgin Galactic has announced the manifest for the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, which will be the first commercial, human-tended research mission for the Company. […]
Launch Vehicle
Astra’s LV0006 Launch Vehicle Continues To Liftoff Despite One Main Engine Shutting Down
Astra Space, Inc. (“Astra”) (Nasdaq: ASTR) has conducted a test launch of their launch vehicle, LV0006. The launch vehicle lifted off at 3:35PM PT on Saturday, August 28, 2021. One […]
Definitive Merger Agreement Entered Into By Virgin Orbit + NextGen Acquisition Corp.
Virgin Orbit, through its parent company Vieco USA, Inc. (“Virgin Orbit” or the “Company”) and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (“NextGen”) (NASDAQ: NGCA), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), have announced […]
The Ariane 5 Rocket For The Webb Telescope Is Now Enroute To French Guiana For Launch Later This Year
The upper stage of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch the James Webb Space Telescope later this year is on its way to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Webb […]
Blue Origin’s Next New Shepard Flight Set With 18 Commercial Payloads + NASA Lunar Landing Tech Demo
Blue Origin‘s New Shepard’s next mission will fly a NASA lunar landing technology demonstration a second time on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, 11 of which are NASA-supported, and an art […]
Soyuz-2.1b Rocket Carrying OneWeb Satellites Installed At Baikonur Launch Pad
The Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket carrying British OneWeb communication satellites has been installed on the launch pad at Site 31 (Vostok) at the Baikonur spaceport, Russia’s Roscosmos state space agency said […]
ISRO’s EOS-03 Satellite Launch On GSLV-F10 Rocket Fails 350 Seconds After Launch Due To Performance Anomaly
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s highly-anticipated launch of Earth observation satellite -3 or GISAT-1 failed after the rocket entered the lower reaches of space (an altitude of 139kms), after […]
Successful Launch Of Northrop Grumman’s Resupply and NASA Science Mission
A successful evening launch, 6:01 p.m. EDT, took place on Tuesday, August 10 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft […]
Northrop Grumman’s 16th Cargo Delivery Mission To The ISS Is Ready
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) readies to launch the 16th resupply mission (NG-16) to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract. The NG-16 mission, the Cygnus […]
Launch Services Agreement Signed Between Momentus + Danish Students Cubesat Program
Momentus Inc. (“Momentus” or the “Company”) has announced a launch services agreement with the Danish Students CubeSat Program (DISCO). The launch services agreement was formally signed earlier this year and […]