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SpaceX moves Starlink Group 11-16 smallsats launch to Friday due to various factors

The date and time of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink Group 11-16 including 27 smallsats into low Earth orbit has been moved to Friday, May 23rd from 1:36 PM […]

Firefly Alpha’s stage separation anomaly sends Lockheed Martin’s satellite into South Pacific near the Antarctic

Firefly Alpha rocket experienced a launch anomaly that left a Lockheed Martin satellite in a significantly “lower than planned orbit”, and the “stage and its payload reentered over the South […]

ESA’s Biomass; on the launch pad, the mission and Europe’s Spaceport

ESA’s Biomass satellite, encapsulated within a Vega-C rocket fairing, has been rolled out to the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of liftoff, planned for 29 April […]

Space economy faces ticking clock on collision risk 

Novaspace, the space consulting and market intelligence firm, has released its Space Situational and Domain Awareness Market Intelligence Report.   “With the increasing deployment of mega-constellations in lower orbits, critical failures […]

Rocket Lab’s launch of OroraTech’s ‘Finding Hot Wildfires Near You’ will help tackle wildfires around the world

Right on time at 11:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) on March 26, from Rocket Lab’s Pad B at Launch Complex 1, Mahia base in New Zealand, the 59-foot (18-meter), three-stage […]

Rocket Lab to launch Finding Hot Wildfires Near You (OroraTech OTC-P1) expanding their constellation

“Finding Hot Wildfires Near You” is a rapid turnaround mission for OroraTech, a Germany-based global provider of wildfire detection and monitoring solutions. Rocket Lab will launch a dedicated mission for OroraTech […]

NASA’s EZIE launching to study magnetic fingerprints of Earth’s aurora

High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical […]