NASA’s Artemis I mission came to a successful conclusion on December 11th with the splashdown and recovery of the Orion spacecraft — this mission was an uncrewed, integrated flight test […]
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UPDATE 2: ispace’s HAKUTOR-R mission 1 successfully launched by SpaceX
On Sunday, December 11 at 2:38 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Lunar Flashlight to a lunar transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex […]
Precious Payload allies with Maritime Launch + adds Canada’s 1st commercial spaceport to the Launch.ctrl marketplace for smallsat interests
Precious Payload allies with Maritime Launch, adding Canada’s 1st commercial spaceport to the Launch.ctrl marketplace Precious Payload has partnered with Maritime Launch Services Inc. (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF), the owner […]
UPDATE 1: OneWeb 1 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center
On Thursday, December 8 at 5:27 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched the OneWeb 1 mission to LEO from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was […]
Sidus Space’s successful LizzieSat-1 CDR
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU) has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of LizzieSat™’s integrated system architecture which includes the LizzieSat™ bus with hosted payloads and sensors, the Sidus Mission […]
DLR selects seven customers for RFA´s inaugural flight
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have announced the winners of the microlauncher payload competition — according to the announcement, seven companies with a total payload […]
OQ Technology’s MACSAT 5G IoT mission launch date revealed
Following the recent 13 million euro Series A funding round, OQ Technology has announced March of 2023 as the planned launch date for the MACSAT mission. The on-orbit pathfinder mission, […]
Boeing delivers first two O3b mPOWER satellites to SES that provide more than 5,000 steerable beams per satellite
Boeing recently delivered the first two O3b mPOWER satellites to SES, a leader in global content connectivity solutions. The all-digital satellites are being prepared in Florida for launch to Medium […]
Rocket Lab’s new subsidiary, Rocket Lab National Security, to serve defense and intelligence community
Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a launch and space systems company, has created a U.S.-based, wholly owned subsidiary to serve the defense and intelligence community — Rocket Lab National Security LLC […]
Arianespace Ariane 6 to launch Intelsat satellites
Arianespace has signed a contract with longtime customer Intelsat to launch two satellite payloads — IS-41 and IS-44 — using the heavy-lift Ariane 64 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana […]