The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) successfully delivered the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-6) to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on June 2nd. The SBIRS GEO-6 space vehicle, marked to complete the SBIRS constellation, was safely transported from the Lockheed Martin Space facility in Sunnyvale, California, […]
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Airbus-built EO satellite (SARah-1) is ready for launch from VSFB for German Bundeswehr
The Airbus-built “SARah-1” Earth Observation (EO) satellite, under subcontract to OHB System AG, has been transported from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California — this satellite is currently being prepared for a June 2022 launch and subsequent operation on-orbit by Airbus. SARah is a new, operational, reconnaissance system consisting of several […]
Kleos’ fourth cluster manifest to launch on the next SpaceX transporter mission
Kleos Space S.A, (Kleos or Company), a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider, confirms its Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites is manifested to launch on the Transporter-6 SpaceX mission NET October 2022. The Observer Mission satellites will be deployed into a Sun Synchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Spaceflight […]
AST SpaceMobile reveals their BlueWalker 3 test satellite will launch in mid-August
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has confirmed plans to launch their BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the week of August 15, 2022. The actual launch date remains subject to change and is contingent on […]
SEAKR Engineering successfully demos optical communications on DARPA’s Mandrake 2 satellites
Originally scheduled for a January 2021 launch, a pre-launch incident damaged both Able and Baker satellites… SEAKR Engineering, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced a successful demonstration of optical inter-satellite links between two Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Mandrake 2 satellites. During the first test, more than 280 gigabits of data were transferred […]
SpaceX drives the Nilesat 301 satellite to orbit
On Wednesday, June 8th, the Nilesat 301 satellite was lifted to a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GEO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The two-hour and 29 minute launch window opened at 5:04 p.m. ET, 21:04 UTC. The Falcon 9 first stage […]
NRL CIRCE spacecraft participate in Historic U.K. Launch
“The CIRCE spacecraft are the size of a shoebox and we’ve managed to sandwich five sensors in each of them…” A joint U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)/ U.K. Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) experiment is preparing to measure Earth’s ionosphere and particle radiation environment as part of the Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE) […]
GHGSat adds 3 more satellites to their methane emissions monitoring constellation with ADD optical sensors aboard
GHGSat launched three, new, ABB-built optical sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard the Transporter-5 mission late last month, doubling the capacity to monitor methane gas emissions. With ABB’s technology, the GHGSat team is able to precisely locate and measure methane emissions from any given industrial […]
China launches 3 astronauts to complete work on the nation’s Tiangong space station
China has sent three astronauts on a six-month-long mission to complete work on the nation’s permanent, orbiting space station — Tiangong — the China Manned Space Agency stated. The Shenzhou-14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which they will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to join the main Tianhe […]
China launches nine COMSATS to orbit
On Thursday, June 2nd, China launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket (also known as also known as the Chang Zheng 2C) that carried a payload of nine commercial satellites to orbit. This was the Geely-01 constellation and lifted off at 12:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. […]