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UPDATE 2 Rocket Lab's Electron rocket on the launch pad prior to liftoff and the activity at the company's launch control center. Screenshot is courtesy of Rocket Lab's launch video. Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 18th Electron mission, 'Another ...

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 8:02 a.m. EST, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, completing the seventeenth Starlink mission. Following first-stage separation, Falcon 9 successfully landed for the eighth ...

Artistic rendition of the proposed satellite is by Alex Priest of Inovor Technologies. Led by the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), the AUD$6.5 million SASAT1 Space Services Mission was announced in Adelaide, South Australia. Based at Lot Fourteen, which is ...

Satellogic has announced a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with SpaceX — through this agreement, SpaceX becomes Satellogic’s preferred vendor for rideshare missions. The first launch, scheduled for June 2021, will deliver Satellogic satellites to LEO via a Falcon 9 ...

Aurora Insight is scheduled to launch its second, satellite-based. radio frequency spectrum sensor on SpaceX’s Transporter-1, on Friday, January 22nd from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch is a part of SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare mission on the Falcon 9 rocket and ...

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket reached space during the company’s second launch demonstration on January 17, 2021, successfully deploying 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP). Virgin Orbit’s launch system uses a technique called air launch, in which a rocket ...

The nonprofit MethaneSAT LLC announced recently signed a contract with SpaceX to deliver its new satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Now under construction after completing an intensive design process, the MethaneSAT instrument is on schedule for a ...

Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. (Voyager) has revealed that the firm's subsidiary, Altius Space Machines, Inc. (Altius), has achieved a significant milestone: a successful first launch of the company’s DogTags™ universal grapple fixtures into space aboard OneWeb’s satellites. This is the ...

Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th mission to space and back on January 14, 2021, for the New Shepard program. Mission NS-14 featured a crew capsule outfitted with astronaut experience upgrades for upcoming flights with passengers onboard. Capsule upgrades included: ...

There are currently five awarded Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions to the lunar surface that are scheduled to occur during the next three years. Intuitive Machines (IM) has two of the missions and both will be launched by SpaceX ...

On Thursday, January 7, at 9:15 p.m., EST, SpaceX launched the Turksat 5A mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida – this was SpaceX’s first mission of 2021. Falcon 9’s first stage ...

Mayukh Nath, Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student inspects the upper unit on the Mi-TEE (Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment) cubesat inside a CLaSP laboratory on North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before it launches into Earth’s Ionosphere. Image credit: Robert Coelius/ Michigan ...

Momentus Inc. (“Momentus” or the “Company”) will be re-manifesting its January 2021 mission to a subsequent launch opportunity in 2021 — this move will allow for the additional time necessary to secure FAA approval of Momentus’ payloads, including completion of ...

Ultra-high data rates for small satellites, free of licensing fees and year-long application processes – this will soon be reality. Thanks to the award to carry out an ESA ScyLight technology demonstration project supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Defense ...

A nearly $155 million award by the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has been made to Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) for launch services from Vandenberg Air Force Base for the agency's Agency’s Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer space ...

Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), did 'heavy lifting' right up until the end of 2020 in preparation of their scheduled March 2021 launch. The company, a major player in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has shipped its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration ...

As weather conditions observed above the Guiana space center were not favorable to a launch today (December 28,2020), those being the risk of non-acceptable high altitude winds profile at lift-off time), Arianespace has decided to interrupt the final VS25 launch ...

China sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 11:44 p.m., Beijing time, on Sunday, December 27, 2020. The satellite, Yaogan-33, successfully entered the planned orbit. This mission also sent a micro and ...

Exolaunch has initiated their launch campaign to integrate 30 smallsats from the U.S. and Europe aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rideshare mission that is planned to launch no earlier than January 2021. This is the first dedicated rideshare mission of SpaceX’s ...

On Saturday, December 19, at 9:00 a.m. EST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the National Reconnaissance Office NROL-108 mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, completing SpaceX’s 26th and final mission of 2020. Falcon 9’s first ...