The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency‘s (JAXA) has scheduled the launch of their fifth Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-5), carrying the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2,at 9:51:21 on October 1st, 2021 (JST) from […]
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GOES-T Launch Now Pushed Out To Next February By NOAA, NASA + ULA
NOAA and NASA are now targeting February 16, 2022, for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) mission. This launch was previously planned for January 8, 2022. […]
CesiumAstro’s On-Orbit Phased Array Experimental Satellites Enter Testing Phase
CesiumAstro, Inc. successfully launched and deployed the first of their two satellites that feature their communications payloads aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. Dubbed Cesium Mission 1 (CM1), […]
Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Are The Target For NASA’s Lucy Mission, Now Being Prepared
NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for […]
Skyloom To Orbit Their Lasercom Node1 On An Arianespace Ariane 64 Launch Vehicle
Telecommunications start-up Skyloom has selected the Ariane 64, operated by Arianespace, to deploy the firm’s first geostationary laser communications relay node — the Ariane 64 will deliver Skyloom’s Node-1 as […]
UPDATE 2: NASA’s Landsat 9 Mission Successfully Launched By ULA From Vandenberg Space Force Base, Plus, US Space Force Reports On Their Involvement
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off at 11:12 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 27, 2021, carrying NASA’s Landsat 9 and multiple smallsat payloads […]
New Mission From NASA To Monitor The Earth Successfully Launched By ULA From Vandenberg Space Force Base
Landsat 9, a NASA satellite built to monitor the Earth’s land surface, successfully launched at 2:12 p.m. EDT Monday, September 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A joint […]
Northrop Grumman’s Built Landsat 9 Gains Launch Success
Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), continues the program’s role of repeat global observations for monitoring, understanding and managing Earth’s natural resources — […]
Spaceflight’s Long List Of New Launch Contracts Enrich Future Of Space Infrastructure
Spaceflight Inc., the global launch services provider, announced it has recently signed several new launch agreements with a wide range of organizations that are expanding space infrastructure. The satellite constellations […]
India To Launch 75 Student Smallsats In A Single Mission
Addressing the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, set forth India’s ambitious mission of launching 75 satellites into […]