OneWeb has successfully launched 34 of their constellation satellites via Arianespace from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This latest, successful launch brings OneWeb’s total on-orbit constellation to 322 satellites, nearly […]
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With The 10th OneWeb Launch, RUAG Space Has Now Placed 1,000+ Satellites Into Orbit
With the separation of the latest 34 OneWeb satellites, RUAG Space successfully placed more than 1,031 satellites into space. On Tuesday, September 14, another 34 OneWeb internet satellites have been […]
Forrester’s Digest: SES-17 Readied For Flight To Arianespace — Plus — Legal Objection To Scotland’s Space Hub Sutherland Is Denied
SES has wrapped the performance tests for its SES-17 craft at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Cannes and the satellite is now being prepared for the September 22nd flight […]
SpaceX Adds 51 Additional Starlink Satellites To Their Constellation
On Monday, September 13, at 8:55 p.m. PDT, SpaceX successfully launched 51 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This was the […]
NASA Selects SpaceX To Launch GOES-U
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements […]
Firefly Aerospace’s First Launch Of Their Alpha Rocket — Anomaly Occurs — Captured Flight Data Encouraging
On September 2nd, Firefly Aerospace Inc. conducted the maiden flight of their Alpha launch vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. “Firefly has conducted the first test flight of […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope To Be Launched By Arianespace This December
Arianespace has, with NASA and ESA, jointly defined December 18, 2021, as the targeted launch date for Flight VA256 and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. This third […]
Multi-Launch Deal For Rocket Lab To Deploy The Entire Kinéis IoT Satellite Constellation
This multi-launch contract finds Rocket Lab contracted to deploy 25 Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellites across five dedicated missions via the company’s Electron launch vehicle for Kinéis, a global Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity […]
Yahsat Selects SpaceX To Launch Their Thuraya 4-NGS Satellite In 2023
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (“Yahsat” or “the Group”) has selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to launch Thuraya 4-NGS, the Group’s advanced satellite, which employs the latest satellite communications technologies, […]
The First Commercial Research Mission Announced By Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic has announced the manifest for the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, which will be the first commercial, human-tended research mission for the Company. […]