NASA earlier this month selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price […]
Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV)
Intuitive Machines receives $9.8 million OTV contract
Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) has secured a $9.8 million Phase Two government contract to advance its Orbital Transfer Vehicle (“OTV”) through Critical Design Review (CDR)—the final engineering milestone on […]
SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission sends 131 smallsats soaring near California’s beach
On a beautiful Tuesday, January 14, California morning, at 11:09 a.m. PT, with blue skies and the ocean and beach in the background SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-12 mission […]
SpaceX shares the sky with smallsat rideshare mission
A beautiful day at the beach just perfect for a launch. SpaceX enjoyed another successful launch at 11:53 PDT on Friday, August 16, when Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-11 mission […]
Exotrail officially a space services provider with successful in-orbit delivery of a commercial satellite
After the critical first step of becoming a satellite operator at the end of 2023, Exotrail is continuing to gain space heritage with a first “last-mile” in space delivery on […]
Italy’s 1st private smallsat IoT constellation is born
Apogeo Space is creating Italy’s first private satellite constellation to provide a telecommunication service for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and has released the firm’s first batch of nine smallsats. […]
Momentus completes vibration testing of the Vigoride-7 OSV
Momentus has completed the vibration testing of the firm’s Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle that is scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission no earlier than March 2024. Momentus’ next […]
GomSpace receives order from EPIC Aerospace
GomSpace recently announced that EPIC Aerospace will purchase products and subsystems from GomSpace for their space tugs at a value of approximately 3.8 million Swedish Krona — the products and […]
Quantum Space’s Ranger MOV to access GEO, cislunar space and beyond
Recently, Quantum Space (Quantum) reported that their Ranger multi-operations vehicle (MOV), a modular orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), will host and precisely deliver payloads directly to GEO, cislunar space and beyond. […]
UPDATE #3 from Momentus regarding the company’s Vigoride-5 OSV
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) is reporting that the commissioning operations of the Vigoride-5 Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) are continuing to successfully advance. The Vigoride-5 OSV was launched on the SpaceX […]