General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has awarded a contract to Firefly Aerospace Inc. to launch a GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) […]
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Near Space Launch and Virginia STEM Students Ready to Send Second Constellation of 30 Small Sats
Co-founder of TSL and Co-Inventor of the CubeSat, Bob Twiggs, stated, “To me, this (First ThinSat launch) was the most exciting day of my career.” Corona or no corona virus, […]
Spaceflight Details Their Upcoming Amazonia-1 Launch From Satish Dawn Space Center
Spaceflight Inc. has revealed the details about the upcoming launch of their largest customer satellite launch to date, the Amazonia-1 spacecraft. To accommodate the nearly 700-kilogram satellite, Spaceflight purchased an […]
KSF Space Foundation + Kuwait College Of Science + Technology To Launch A Smallsat Via High-Altitude Balloon
KSF Space Foundation announced that the state of Kuwait will be the first in GCC and North Africa to send a cubesat to near space to measure climate change and […]
SpaceX’s 19th Starlink Launch Is A Success
The 5th SpaceX Starlink launch via a Falcon 9, two-stage rocked occurred successfully on Monday, February 15, 2021, at 10:59 p.m., ET, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape […]
Fleet Space’s Centauri 3 IIoT Smallsat Preparing For A Rocket Lab Launch
Fleet Space Technologies are set to launch their fifth smallsat, Centauri 3, next month aboard Rocket Lab’s They Go Up So Fast mission, taking off from Launch Complex 1 on […]
Musk Vs. Bezos: The Battle Continues
Article by Chris Forrester, Senior Contributor, Satnews Publishers The planet’s two richest individuals, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, are involved in a bitter slanging match over their satellite broadband mega-constellations. […]
Rocket Lab to Launch 100th Satellite and Prepare for Moon Mission by Deploying Next-Generation Photon Spacecraft
Rocket Lab, a launch provider and space systems company, announces their next mission will be to deploy a range of satellites for commercial and government satellite operators, and place a […]
Direct From SmallSat Symposium, Dr. Derek M. Tournear, Director, Space Development Agency, Keynote Address
I’m excited to talk about the Space Development Agency and what we have done over the past year and our year term and long term visions. I want to talk […]
Living Bacteria Will Be Ballooning Its Way To Space
KSF Space Foundation has announced that the Kingdom of Jordan will be the first in the Middle East and North Africa to send living microbiology and bacteria cells to space […]