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Rocket Lab’s Electron set to launch Get The Hawk Outta Here (4x HawkEye 360)

‘Get The Hawk Outta Here’ is scheduled to launch Thursday, June 26th, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1. The client is HawkEye 360, a […]

SpaceX launches four astronauts in first mission to polar orbit

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Monday, March 31 at 9:46 p.m. ET launched Fram2 to a polar orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission duration: […]

ICEYE launches two SAR satellites, expanding Earth observation capabilities

ICEYE in Helsinki, Finland announced it has launched two new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites into orbit, expanding its capacity for high-resolution Earth observation. The satellites were deployed as part […]

First all-new MetOp complete + sibling in testing

With all instruments integrated, the first ESA MetOp Second Generation-A, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite is now fully assembled and on schedule for liftoff next year. Meanwhile, its sibling, MetOp-SG-B1, is undergoing […]

SpaceX schedules OneWeb launch on Saturday after numerous delays… fingers crossed again

A batch of 20 microsatellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global internet broadband service for individual consumers, is scheduled to launch on Saturday (local time) […]

SpaceX postpones Monday’s OneWeb satellite constellation launch due to a booster mishap after Crew-9 launch — to resume after “we better understand root cause” 

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to send up 20 microsatellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation from Vandenberg Space Force Base, originally planned for late Sunday night, has […]