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Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch delayed again until Monday due to rough waters

Blue Origin is opting to delay again the launch of New Glenn due to unfavorable weather conditions. Blue Origin’s spokesperson said, “Sea state conditions are still unfavorable for booster landing. […]

New Glenn’s first launch now on for ‘no earlier than Friday’

New Glenn’s inaugural mission (NG-1) is targeting no earlier than Friday, January 10, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The three-hour launch window opens at […]

HawkEye 360’s Pathfinder satellite trio to retire — Cluster 11 launch just ahead

HawkEye 360 has announced the planned decommissioning of the firm’s pioneering Cluster 1 Pathfinder satellites by the end of 2024 — this decommissioning marks the conclusion of the first-generation satellite […]

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) selected by NUVIEW to develop pathfinder satellite bus

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) was by NUVIEW earlier this month to develop the bus for Mr. SPoC, their pathfinder smallsat that will demo the capabilities of the world’s first commercial, […]

AFRL’s Oracle systems family developing nation’s 1st cislunar SSA capabilities

Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) unveiled two programs — Defense Deep Space Sentinel (D2S2) and Oracle to develop cislunar space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities. […]

Pixxel’s $36 Million in Series B funding will advance hyperspectral satellite constellation and data platform

Pixxel, a hyperspectral Earth-imaging technology, announced $36 Million in a Series B funding round with participation from new investors such as Google, along with existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume […]

Terran Orbital demonstrates record-breaking 1.4 terabyte single-pass optical downlink for NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 Satellite

Terran Orbital Corporation, a provider of satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced its contribution to the successful demonstration of a record-breaking 1.4-terabytes of data delivered from […]

Terran Orbital assists with demo of single-pass optical downlink for NASA’s Pathfinder technology demonstrator 3 satellite

Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has contributed to the successful demonstration of a record-breaking, 1.4-terabytes of data delivered from space to ground by an optical downlink in a single pass. The […]

Terran Orbital demonstrates next step in Space-to-Ground Optical Link on NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 satellite

This breakthrough has the potential to revolutionize the space-based Earth Observation and synthetic aperture radar industries, among others, by offering a space-demonstrated solution to the data throughput bottlenecks that have […]