Leaf Space, has partnered with Space Machines Company to support their first Orbital Transfer Vehicle, Optimus-1, launch next year. Leaf Space provides ground segment services for both satellite operators and […]
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Rogue Space Signs A Launch Service Agreement With Firefly Aerospace
Rogue Space Systems Corporation and Firefly Aerospace have signed a Launch Service Agreement (LSA). The agreement confirms that Rogue has secured the entire payload mass capacity aboard a Firefly Alpha […]
One Hundred Percent Success For SpaceFlight’s SXRS-5 Mission
During the 36th Space Symposium, Spaceflight Inc. announced the company had achieved 100% mission success for both its primary and secondary missions for SXRS-5, including the commissioning and successful firing […]
D-Orbit’s Smallsat Transportation Vehicle Climbs To SSO Via SpaceX’s Transporter-2 Mission Launch
D-Orbit successfully launched another ION Satellite Carrier (ION), the company’s proprietary, orbital transportation vehicle — ION lifted off on June 30, 2021, at 9:31 pm CEST, atop a SpaceX Falcon […]
Innovative Modular Design For Spaceflight’s Sherpa OTV To Debut With The SpaceX Transporter-2 Mission
Spaceflight Inc. will debut newly developed technical innovations used for the company’s next-generation Sherpa program, enabling smallsat transportation throughout cislunar space in a way that has never previously been accomplished. […]
Telenor’s THOR 10-02 Satellite Is Now Docked With Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 For On-Orbit Servicing
Telenor Satellite has announced the successful docking of Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 (Mission Extension Vehicle) with the company’s THOR 10-02 satellite. This represents the start of a new era for satellite […]
Exolaunch Unveils Their Reliant Exo Space Tug Program
Exolaunch is discussing their new line of orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that will launch satellites to custom orbits in an environmentally responsible way which, according the firm, are the first […]
UPDATE: Spaceflight’s Orbital Transfer Vehicles Have Launches In Sight
Spaceflight will launch 16 payloads on the upcoming SXRS-3 mission, slated for early 2021. Of the 16 payloads Spaceflight is managing on this launch, 14 of them will launch on Spaceflight’s Sherpa-FX orbital transfer […]
Apollo Fusion’s Electric Propulsion System To Empower Spaceflight’s OTVs
Apollo Fusion, Inc. has been selected as the electric propulsion system for Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTE. The Sherpa-LTE is a high specific impulse (Isp), xenon propellant, electric propulsion orbital transfer vehicle […]