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Weather permitting it appears that everything is progressing toward the launch of ULA's Delta IV Heavy launch that will carry the NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. The mission is set to lift off on Saturday, September 26 from ...

Blue Origin’s next New Shepard mission (NS-13) is currently targeting liftoff for Thursday, September 24, at 10:00 am CDT / 15:00 UTC — current weather conditions are favorable. This will be the 13th New Shepard mission and the 7th consecutive ...

Momentus Inc. (“Momentus” or the “Company”) and Pixxel have executed a service agreement for delivering Pixxel’s second smallsat to SSO orbit in December 2021 onboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 launch, as well as options to fly again in 2022. Pixxel is ...

34 OneWeb satellites launch aboard a Arianespace Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 21, 2020 | Image credit: NASA Getting back to their original plans are Arianespace and OneWeb which will resume launch operations to continue the deployment of ...

On October 21, China sent a new ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. A Long March-4B rocket carrying the Haiyang-2C (HY-2C) satellite took off at 1:40 p.m. (Beijing Time), according to the launch ...

New Mexico State University’s student rocket team the “Atomic Aggies” held two successful rocket launches at Spaceport America on Saturday, September 19.The Atomic Aggies were due to compete in the 2020 Spaceport America Cup which was canceled due to COVID-19 ...

With this major milestone complete, the Electron launch vehicle, launch team, and the L-2 pad systems are now ready for Rocket Lab's first launch from U.S. soil. Rocket Lab enjoyed the completion of a successful milestone. The company has successfully ...

Start-up company Guoyao Tech is developing a novel launch system that is based on electromagnetic technology that would deliver satellites and humans into space and the firm has now announced a roadmap to complete a prototype launch of 10 kg ...

Artistic concept illustration of the Sutherland spaceport. The five space ports under consideration in Scotland have formed an alliance to highlight their plans and eventual activity. The alliance wants to address common issues and promote the industry onto the global ...

Once again, SpaceX is scrubbing its launch on Friday. Here's the statement from SpaceX. SpaceX is standing down from the launch attempt of its thirteenth Starlink mission due to severe weather in the recovery area, which is likely to persist ...

Intelsat has contracted Arianespace for the launch of three, C-band satellites, on Ariane 5 and Ariane 6. Arianespace and Intelsat have just signed an agreement for two launches of three satellites — Galaxy 35, Galaxy 36 and Galaxy 37 — ...

Kleos Space S.A. (ASX:KSS, Frankfurt:KS1) has provided an update on the Kleos Scouting Mission, launching on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C49 Mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota Range in India (SHAR). The Company has been informed ...

Another launch for SpaceX is planned for Thursday, September 17, at 2:19 p.m. EDT, 18:19 UTC, for launch of its thirteenth Starlink mission. The company will launch 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex ...

Image of the Dorado rocket. 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 of Equatorial Space into the ...

NetSat integration into the upper stage. Photo is courtesy of Exolaunch. 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, ...

Artistic rendition of MUIRA 5 is courtesy of PLD Space. 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 ...

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 carrier rocket, China's first sea-launched rocket, at 9:23 a.m. (Beijing ...

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 the launch vehicle began to start swaying back and forth ...

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, September 12, failed to enter the preset orbit. Abnormal performance ...

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 in human spaceflight. Chawla was selected in honor of her ...