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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Six smallsats by Space Flight Laboratory were launched to orbit via the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission
Six smallsats developed by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) were successfully launched by the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission on May 25th. The three GHGSat greenhouse gas monitoring and three HawkEye 360 […]
Sidus Space selects L3Harris for mission critical ops software for the LizzieSat™ constellation
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company that is focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, has selected L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) InControl™ and OnTime™ software for […]
Launch Task Orders From Space Systems Command Go To United Launch Alliance + SpaceX
Space Systems Command (SSC) ordered eight National Security Space (NSS) launch services under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement contract today; five to United Launch […]
Spaceflight launches five customer payloads aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission and debuts the firm’s latest OTV — Sherpa-AC
Spaceflight Inc. has contacted its Sherpa-AC vehicle and confirmed the vehicle is operating nominally. This is the debut launch of Sherpa-AC, the latest variation in the company’s Sherpa orbital transfer […]
ICEYE Launches 5 New SAR Smallsats Via The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission
ICEYE has successfully launched five new SAR satellites — all spacecraft were launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 smallsat rideshare mission via EXOLAUNCH from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Communication has successfully been […]