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 […]
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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 […]
Lacuna Space’s Fourth IoT Smallsat Launched + Comms Established
Lacuna Space has successfully launched and has established communications with their fourth IoT (Internet of Things) gateway in space. The satellite, carrying a new generation of space gateways, was transported […]
Kleos Scouting Mission Smallsats Deployed
Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) has successfully deployed their Scouting Mission satellites (KSM1) via the launch on India Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C49 […]
Omnispace Signs Launch Agreement With Exolaunch
Omnispace has just signed a launch agreement with Exolaunch who will deliver two, Thales Alenia Space-built satellites into orbit aboard SpaceX’s rideshare missions. Exolaunch will provide launch, mission management, integration […]
China’s New Carrier Rocket Drives IoT Smallsat To Orbit
The CERES-1, China’s latest launch vehicle that is designed for commercial use, completed a maiden flight on Saturday, November 7, and pushed a satellite into its planned SSO orbit at […]
Ten Satellogic Geospatial Satellites Are Heading To Orbit
Satellogic has successfully launched 10 new satellites, all delivered to sun-synchronous LEO at 3:18:50 am UTC on November 6, 2020. This launch positions Satellogic as a global leader in high-resolution […]