The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimetry mission CRISTAL is clearly on track. Following an intensive review process, the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that the preliminary design […]
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ESA Contracts Airbus For Further Development Of The Agency’s LISA Mission
Airbus has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to further develop the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), one of the most ambitious science missions […]
Astroscale’s ELSA-d Mission Successfully Completes Complex Rendezvous Operation
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that, despite several unexpected setbacks, the company’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission successfully completed further controlled close-approach rendezvous operations between its two spacecraft […]
NASA Selects The Investigation Teams That Will Join The Geospace Dynamics Mission
NASA has selected three investigation teams to join the agency’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission science team in studying Earth’s upper atmosphere, as well as five additional investigations that will […]
Spaceflight’s 50th Mission All Groomed + Set For A Rocket Lab Electron Launch
Spaceflight Inc. is preparing for their 50th mission, which will launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket no earlier than April 22. The RL-9 mission, called “There and Back Again,” […]
Lonestar Secedes From Stealth Mode To Develop Lunar-Based Data Storage + Edge Processing Infrastructure With 2 Moon Missions Contracted
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is launching a series of data centers to the lunar surface and has contracted for its first two missions and for the build of the company’s […]
SpaceX Sends 40 Various Spacecraft To SSO With Successful Transporter-4 Launch At Canaveral
SpaceX successfully launched the Transporter-4 via a Falcon 9 rocket to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The […]
Orbit Logic Awarded Lunar Swarms Autonomy NASA Phase II STTR
Orbit Logic has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by NASA to further mature the Intelligent Navigation, Planning, and Awareness for Swarm Systems (IN-PASS) solution. […]
Spaceflight + Astrocast Extend Their Smallsat IoT Constellation Launch Contract
Spaceflight Inc. has initiated an extended multi-launch agreement (MLA) with long-time customer and Internet of Things (IoT) constellation developer, Astrocast. This agreement will add two missions to accommodate Astrocast’s fast-growing […]
Spaceflight’s Statement Regarding The SpaceX Move To Sever Launch Ties
Information from From Jodi Sorensen, Vice President of Marketing, Spaceflight The SpaceX Rideshare Team sent an email last Friday morning to an undisclosed list of rideshare customers and that email […]