Sir Peter Beck’s New Zealand-based rocket company has gone ahead with its $500 million (€461.1m) cash-raising exercise. Rocket Lab has already confirmed an offer to buy German-based laser connectivity specialist […]
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Sir Peter Beck, Founder and CEO, Rocket Lab “This is the best time in history to be bold”
By Chris Forrester Rocket Lab is increasingly making very real headlines for its end-to-end solutions – not dissimilar to Elon Musk in terms of practical and reliable rockets – and […]
SpaceX valued at $350bn
According to a recent Bloomberg broadcast, SpaceX is now valued at about $350 billion (€336.2bn). This value has been suggested to split with the Starlink broadband system representing about 65 […]
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 […]
Forrester’s Digest: Eutelsat orders 100 new OneWeb satellites
Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat, which already has some 654 of its OneWeb satellites in low Earth orbit, is ordering another 100 satellites from Airbus Defence & Space. The new satellites […]
SpaceX ready for lucky Friday the 13th launch of O3b mPOWER 7&8
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the fourth pair of O3b mPOWER satellites to a medium Earth orbit by SES on Friday the 13th at 12:55 – 3:55 PM […]
SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 6-76 of 24 smallsats Tuesday evening
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, November 26 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
SpaceX plans Tuesday launch of Starlink Group 9-9 smallsats
SpaceX plans a Tuesday launch of Starlink Group 9-9 V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit from SLC-4E, Vandenberg at 4:30 a.m. PDT (7:30 a.m. EDT, 1130 UTC). A little […]
Silicon Sensing celebrates its IMU’s fourth year on the iQPS’ small SAR satellite
Silicon Sensing Systems’ DMU30 high performance inertial measurement unit (IMU) continues to perform within the control system of Japan’s first X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) small satellite from the Institute for […]
SpaceX Starlink Group 8-19 smallsats set for Friday launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch a batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation on Friday, October 18 at 4:31 PM PDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape […]