A Falcon 9 launched the company’s Transporter-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously […]
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Momentus’ Vigoride OSV heads to orbit via the SpaceX Transporter-6 Falcon 9 launch
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) launched their 2nd demo flight of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) to LEO aboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission on January 3rd, 2023. Momentus established contact […]
Planet Labs launches 36 SuperDove smallsats with SpaceX
Planet Labs PBC launched 36 of their SuperDove satellites, Flock 4y, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 3, 2023, at 9:56 a.m., ET (14:56 UTC), on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 […]
Stanford’s Sapling Sempervirens smallsat to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission
Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI), an undergraduate student group at Stanford University, will launch the Sapling Sempervirens (Sapling-1) satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. […]
Ionospheric bubbles + blobs being investigated by two NASA smallsats
Two CubeSats (smallsats) are on a quest to provide insight on space weather disturbances and the subsequent impact on communication signals — this dynamic duo, the Plasma Enhancements in the […]
Launched: SpaceX’s 2Gen Starlink satellites + ImageSat International’s EROS C-3 satellite
On Wednesday, December 28th at 4:34 a.m., ET, SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This […]
France’s Unseenlabs’ 8th space-based RF detection satellite specific to maritime surveillance is ready to launch
Unseenlabs, provider of space-based RF detection for Maritime Domain Awareness, announced the launch of its latest satellite, BRO-8, number eight in its satellite constellation. BRO-8 will be launched January 2023 […]
Europe’s first satellite launch complex to be inaugurated in Northern Sweden
On January 13, 2023, the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf, together with European and Swedish political dignitaries, will visit Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden to cut […]
Momentus engages in a 2nd launch management agreement with Australia’s CUAVA
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has an agreement with the Australian Research Council Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, and their Applications (CUAVA), for the transportation of the Waratah Seed […]
UK Space regulator issues Virgin Orbit launch licenses
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has issued the final, remaining licenses to Virgin Orbit ahead of the company’s planned UK launch after the agency’s requirements were met within 15 months. […]