On Friday, April 30, China successfully launched a new, remote sensing satellite, Yaogan-34, into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 3:27 p.m. The Yaogan-34 satellite […]
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Virgin Orbit Selected By Brazilian Space Agency + Air Force For Orbital Launches
The Brazilian Space Agency (Agência Espacial Brasileira; AEB) and Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) announced today that Virgin Orbit has been selected to bring orbital launch capability to […]
Space Flight Laboratory’s NorSat-3 Maritime Smallsat Launched — Commissioning Underway For The Norwegian Space Agency
The Norwegian Space Agency has announced the successful launch of the NorSat-3 maritime tracking smallsat, built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) in Toronto, successfully launched on April 28, 2012, aboard […]
Successful Comms Established With Aurora Insight’s Just Launched Bravo Smallsat By NanoAvionics
NanoAvionics has successfully established communications with “Bravo,” the second smallsat the company built and launched for Aurora Insight, a U.S. business analytics company for the wireless industry. “Bravo” was sent […]
UPDATE: Arianespace’s 1st Vega Mission Of The Year Launches Pléiades Neo 3 + Five Additional Smallsat Payloads
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 10:50 pm local time (01:50 UTC on Thursday, April 29), a Vega launch vehicle operated by Arianespace lifted off successfully from the Guiana Space […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches 60 Starlinks
On Wednesday, April 28 at 11:44 p.m. EDT, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the […]
Additional Launch Contracts Signed By Rocket Factory Augsburg
OHB Cosmos International Launch Services GmbH, a company of OHB SE’s newly established business segment OHB DIGITAL, as well as LuxSpace, the group’s Luxembourg-based satellite manufacturer, have both signed a […]
UPDATE 2: A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Rocket Powers The NROL-82 Mission To Orbit
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the NROL-82 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Liftoff occurred from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, […]
OneWeb Adds 36 Satellites To The Firm’s Constellation Via Arianespace Soyuz
Performed on Monday, April 26, at precisely 07:14 a.m. local time at Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome (22:14 a.m. on April 25, UTC), Soyuz Flight ST31 orbited 36 new OneWeb satellites. That […]
SpaceX Launches The Crew-2 Mission With Four Astronauts Aboard To ISS
Flight proven and showing how SpaceX’s hardware reusability can cost-effectively enhance the space program, April 23rd witnessed the SpaceX and NASA launch of the Dragon capsule via a Falcon 9 […]