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Mission Payloads

Firefly’s award of $177 Million from NASA for mission to the Moon’s South Pole

August 6, 2025

Firefly Aerospace, a market leading space and defense technology company, was awarded a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to deliver five NASA-sponsored payloads to the Moon’s south […]

Filed Under: BLue Ghost Lunar Lander (Firefly), Blue Ghost Mission, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Elytra Dark Orbital Vehicle (Firefly), Elytra Orbital Vehicle, Elytra spacecraft (Firefly), Firefly Aerospace, Mission Payloads, Moon, NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Payloads, Propulsion Systems, Spacecraft, Thermal

ULA continues launch prep of Vulcan for U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command USSF-106 mission

July 22, 2025

The first U.S. national security launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket will be the United States Space Force (USSF)-106 mission. Liftoff will occur at an as-yet-to-be-determined launch […]

Filed Under: Cape Canaveral SFS, Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), Launch, Launch Manifest, Military, Mission Payloads, National Security Space Launch, Solid Rocket Boosters, Space Launch Complex, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Forces - Space, United Launch Alliance, Vulcan

SpaceX to launch Transporter-14 mission on Monday from California

June 22, 2025

SpaceX is targeting Monday, June 23 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Transporter-14 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]

Filed Under: Booster, Booster Recovery, Cubesats, Droneship, Droneship Landings, Exolaunch, Falcon 9, LEO Payloads, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Microsat, Microsatellites, Mission Payloads, Rideshare, Rideshare Mission, Smallsat Launch Vehicles, Space Vehicles, SpaceX, SpaceX Rideshare, Transporter-14, Vandenberg SFB

AST SpaceMobile to launch 243 satellites

May 11, 2025

AST SpaceMobile (AST), a would-be supplier of direct-to-consumer cellular telephony from space, has told the FCC that it will have 243 of its BlueBird satellites in orbit by the end […]

Filed Under: AST SpaceMobile, AT&T, Blue Origin, BlueBird smallsats (AST SpaceMobile), Defense Payloads, Department of Defense (DoD), DoD, FCC Space Bureau, Military, Mission Payloads, New Glenn, Payloads, Verizon

Firefly Aerospace now plans a Sunday launch of Lockheed Martin’s FLTA006 Message in a Booster mission

April 21, 2025

Firefly Aerospace’s launch of Lockheed Martin’s FLTA006 has been scheduled for Sunday, April 27th, at 6:37 AM – 8:17 AM PDT from Vandenberg. This is the sixth flight of the […]

Filed Under: Firefly Aerospace, Hosted Payload, Hosted Payload Services, Launch, Launch Delay, Lockheed Martin, Mission Payloads, Satellite Buses, Space Communications, Vandenberg SFB

ULA plans Amazon Project Kuiper’s launch on Monday

April 10, 2025

The next date for ULA’s launch of Project Kuiper now is scheduled for Monday, April 14 from 4:00 PM to 8:34 PM ET. Liftoff of the Kuiper 1 mission will […]

Filed Under: Aerojet Rocketdyne, Amazon, Amazon Project Kuiper, Boeing, Broadband, Broadband Services, Centaur, Kuiper, Kuiper Government Solutions. LLC, Launch Delay, Liquid Oxygen, Lockheed Martin, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Mission Payloads, Payloads, Project Kuiper, Satellite Broadband, Smallsat Constellation, Smallsat Payloads, smallsats, Solid Rocket Boosters, United Launch Alliance, Vulcan Centaur, Weather Forecasting

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

March 26, 2025

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 […]

Filed Under: Booster, Constellations, Detection, Detection Analytics, Electron, Hazard Detection, Mission, Mission Payloads, Multiple Payloads, New Zealand, OroraTech, Payloads, Rocket Lab, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Wildfires Tagged With: Featured

SpaceX launches Transporter-13 rideshare mission that includes 74 payloads

March 16, 2025

On Friday, March 14 at 11:43 p.m. PT, SpaceX launched the Transporter-13 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos by […]

Filed Under: Booster, Booster Recovery, Cubesats, LEO Payloads, Microsat, Microsatellites, Mission Payloads, Multiple Payloads, Payloads, Rideshare, Rideshare Mission, SmallSat, SpaceX, SpaceX Rideshare, SpaceX Transporter-13 Mission, Vandenberg SFB

IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain

March 6, 2025

After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft […]

Filed Under: Data Communications, Falcon 9, IM-2 Lunar Mission (Intuitive Machines), Intuitive Machines, Launch, Lunar Lander, Lunar Missions, Mission Payloads, Moon, Scientific Payloads, Solar, Solar Power Systems, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, Transmitter Tagged With: Featured

Blue Origin earns another ‘feather in their cap’ with success of NS-29 mission launch

February 4, 2025

Blue Origin successfully completed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas. The payloads experienced roughly two minutes of lunar gravity forces. The […]

Filed Under: Avionics, Blue Origin, Booster, Gravity Field, Launch Delay, Launch Pad, Mission Payloads, Moon, NASA, Weather Prediction

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