Equatorial Space Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Space Development Nexus-SDNx for suborbital launch services using the company’s Dorado rocket. The MOU is the first foray […]
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Exolaunch To Handle NetSat Smallsat Formation Launch
The Würzburg Center for Telematics and Exolaunch now have a launch agreement for a NetSat smallsat formation — under the launch agreement, Exolaunch will coordinate all launcher related activities, including […]
PLD Space Obtains An Investment of 7 Million Euros
PLD Space has announced the closure of further financing through a tie-up with independent financial advisory and alternative asset management group Arcano Partners — this 7 million euros venture will […]
Nine Imaging Smallsats Launched By China
China successfully sent nine Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 imaging smallsats into planned orbit from the Yellow Sea on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. The nine satellites blasted off atop a Long March-11 […]
Astra’s Rocket 3.1 Launch Is A Win Despite In-Flight Engine Shutdown
Astra launched their first orbital rocket on Friday, September 11, from a spaceport located in southern Alaska on Kodiak Island. Rocket 3.1 began to climb straight into the sky before […]
China Rocket Failure + EO Capture Success With 2.5+K Images Released
Optical remote-sensing satellite Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C, which was launched aboard the Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 13:02 p.m. (Beijing time) on Saturday, […]
Northrop Grumman Names Spacecraft After Former Astronaut Kalpana Chawla
Northrop Grumman‘s NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft has been named after former astronaut Kalpana Chawla. The company’s tradition is to name each Cygnus after an individual who has played a pivotal role […]
Gilmour Space Technologies To Launch Space Machines Smallsat Via The Eris Rocket
Gilmour Space Technologies has secured the first Australian customer for the firm’s maiden Eris rocket launch in 2022 — Space Machines Company has contracted to launch a 35 kg spacecraft […]
Gaofen-11 02 Satellite Launched By China
China launched a new optical, remote-sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Monday, September 7, 2020. The Gaofen-11 02 satellite was launched by a […]
Third Kepler Space Data Backhaul Smallsat — TARS — Launched By Arianespace
Kepler’s LEO constellation has expanded with the successful launch of the company’s third satellite — the satellite, internally referred to as TARS, was launched onboard the Arianespace Vega SSMS (Small […]