At 18:17 (09:17 US Pacific time) on November 21, 2020, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air […]
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Rocket Lab’s “Return to Sender” Successfully Launches With 30 Smallsats
Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 16th Electron mission and deployed 30 small satellites to orbit, the largest number of satellites deployed by Electron to date on a single mission. The […]
Voyager Space Holdings Plans To Acquire The Launch Company
Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. (Voyager) has announced the firm’s intent to acquire The Launch Company, subject to customary closing conditions. The Launch Company specializes in developing standardized hardware, ground support […]
Hypernova Books Their Next Generation Small Satellite Propulsion on EnduroSat’s Shared Sat Service
Hypernova Space Technologies is ready to plan the launch of their cubesat and has booked EnduroSat’s Shared Satellite Service to fly their first thruster mission in space. The mission is […]
Astroscale’s End-Of-Life Services Satellite, ELSA-D, To Launch In March Of 2021
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that the firm’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, […]
UPDATE: Mission Failure Arianespace’s Vega VV17 — SEOSAT-Ingenio / TARANIS: Lost
Thankfully, news of this sort, regarding a mission failure, is a rarity and unfortunate in many ways. Vega launched and appeared to be flying smoothly, but after eight minutes, issues […]
NASA, SpaceX Officials Thrilled With Crew-1 Launch Success
It was a picture perfect launch during a beautiful evening on Florida’s Space Coast, as NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) blasted off […]
UPDATED: United Launch Alliance’s Successful Launch of NROL-101 In Support Of National Security
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched their Atlas V rocket with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) NROL-101 payload aboard on November 13 at 5:32 p.m., EST, from Space Launch […]
China Advances Their Tiantong 1-02 Satellite To Orbit
China has successfully launched their Tiantong 1-02, a new, mobile, telecommunication satellite, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. The first satellite in the network, Tiantong 1-01, was launched […]
A First … France’s Satellite to Observe Electromagnetic Phenomena Above Thunderstorms and Spain’s Scientific and EO Satellites
In the world of satellites, what initially were challenges are steadily being resolved, as this announcement from Arianespace reveals. On November 16, Arianespace will carry out its seventh launch of […]