Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) , a U.S. commercial space company that offers transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, has signed a contract with FOSSA Systems, a Spanish company that offers […]
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UPDATE 4: Virgin Orbit updates their “Start Me Up” mission anomaly
Preliminary analysis of data from Virgin Orbit‘s Start Me Up mission has begun to shed light on the outcome of the January 9th flight and the next steps that will […]
Astranis successfully launches into 2023 with a new Chief Commercial Officer from Viasat
As a new two-year-old company Astranis reports themselves as a serious player in the satellite industry having finished their first satellite, sold many more, scaled to over 300 employees, and […]
UPDATE 4: SpaceX changes date and time of the Starlink launch to January 15th from Vandenberg SFB — while SpaceX Falcon 9 propelled the OneWeb Launch 16 mission to orbit from Canaveral –
SpaceX has moved the date for their Falcon 9 launch of 51 Starlink satellites to LEO from January 14th and is now targeting Sunday, January 15th from Space Launch Complex […]
UPDATE 2: Rocket Lab’s 1st U.S. launch for HawkEye 360’s Cluster 6 payload set for January 23rd.
The latest information from Rocket Lab regarding their “Virgina Is For Launch Lovers” mission to occur at NASA’s Wallops flight facility is that this event is now scheduled for Monday, […]
Kleos’ Observer Mission achieves bi-directional communication
Kleos Space S.A., a space-powered defense and intelligence technology company, has achieved two-way communication with all four Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites that launched successfully on January 3rd aboard the Transporter-6 […]
Blue Canyon Technologies provides critical tech for Transporter-6 mission smallsats
Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, contributed to the SpaceX Transporter-6 launch by providing critical hardware components for several of the payload’s smallsats. The payloads had various […]
AAC Clyde Space’s AIS communications satellite Kelpie-1 launches
Kelpie-1, a 3U AAC Clyde Space EPIC nanosatellite, was successfully launched on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission on January 3, 2023. Kelpie-1 will deliver AIS data to the U.S. company ORBCOMM […]
Norwegian-Dutch smallsats successfully launched
Two Norwegian-Dutch smallsats were successfully launched on January 3, 2023 — Birkeland and Huygens were placed into orbit by SpaceX via the Transporter-6 mission. MilSpace2 is a cooperation project between […]
Successful launch of Unseenlabs’ 8th constellation smallsat
Unseenlabs successfully has launched their eighth satellite since 2019, one dedicated to the geolocation of vessels at sea from space. BRO-8 was launched with Exolaunch as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-6 […]