General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has awarded a contract to Firefly Aerospace Inc. to launch a GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) instrument. The launch vehicle delivering the satellite to space will be Firefly’s Alpha rocket and is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in […]
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Near Space Launch and Virginia STEM Students Ready to Send Second Constellation of 30 Small Sats
Co-founder of TSL and Co-Inventor of the CubeSat, Bob Twiggs, stated, “To me, this (First ThinSat launch) was the most exciting day of my career.” Corona or no corona virus, the Virginia middle and high school STEM programs are busy and getting ready to launch a second constellation of 30 small sats on February 20. […]
Spaceflight Details Their Upcoming Amazonia-1 Launch From Satish Dawn Space Center
Spaceflight Inc. has revealed the details about the upcoming launch of their largest customer satellite launch to date, the Amazonia-1 spacecraft. To accommodate the nearly 700-kilogram satellite, Spaceflight purchased an entire NewSpace India Limited’s (NSIL) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The mission, named PSLV-C51/ Amazonia-1, is targeted for launch at the end of February from the Satish […]
KSF Space Foundation + Kuwait College Of Science + Technology To Launch A Smallsat Via High-Altitude Balloon
KSF Space Foundation announced that the state of Kuwait will be the first in GCC and North Africa to send a cubesat to near space to measure climate change and ultra violet radiation in partnership with KSF Space’s next mission, scheduled for high altitude balloon launch in June of 2021. Kuwait College of Science & […]
SpaceX’s 19th Starlink Launch Is A Success
The 5th SpaceX Starlink launch via a Falcon 9, two-stage rocked occurred successfully on Monday, February 15, 2021, at 10:59 p.m., ET, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 19th Starlink launch and the 5th launch for 2021. The rocket propellants loaded at T-39 minutes. […]
Fleet Space’s Centauri 3 IIoT Smallsat Preparing For A Rocket Lab Launch
Fleet Space Technologies are set to launch their fifth smallsat, Centauri 3, next month aboard Rocket Lab’s They Go Up So Fast mission, taking off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula. Centauri 3 is Fleet Space’s fifth and most advanced smallsat to go to orbit, adding to their planned 140 strong constellation. […]
Musk Vs. Bezos: The Battle Continues
Article by Chris Forrester, Senior Contributor, Satnews Publishers The planet’s two richest individuals, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, are involved in a bitter slanging match over their satellite broadband mega-constellations. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and their two rival businesses, SpaceX and Project Kuiper, have lodged almost daily tit-for-tat filings with the Federal Communications Commission […]
Rocket Lab to Launch 100th Satellite and Prepare for Moon Mission by Deploying Next-Generation Photon Spacecraft
Rocket Lab, a launch provider and space systems company, announces their next mission will be to deploy a range of satellites for commercial and government satellite operators, and place a next-generation Photon spacecraft in orbit to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year. Scheduled to […]
Direct From SmallSat Symposium, Dr. Derek M. Tournear, Director, Space Development Agency, Keynote Address
I’m excited to talk about the Space Development Agency and what we have done over the past year and our year term and long term visions. I want to talk about the many products that we’re developing and delivering, so SDA is set up to exist and operate almost as a commercial entity within the […]
Living Bacteria Will Be Ballooning Its Way To Space
KSF Space Foundation has announced that the Kingdom of Jordan will be the first in the Middle East and North Africa to send living microbiology and bacteria cells to space with KSF Space’s next mission, which is scheduled for June of 2021. Yarmok University in Jordan will be the leading all of the universities in […]