On Wednesday, April 17 at 5:26 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A […]
Satellite Manufacturing
SpaceX launch of Maxar’s WorldView Legion mission a No-Go
The WorldView Legion mission was postponed the day before launch and, with support ship Go Beyond now returned to the Port of Long Beach and the listing removed from the […]
SpaceX to launch Maxar WorldView Legion 1 & 2 mission for leading resolution and accuracy
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the WorldView Legion 1 & 2 mission on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM (UTC). WorldView Legion is a constellation of Earth observation […]
Slam and Lynk Global’s home run with a definitive business combination agreement
Lynk Global, Inc. (“Lynk”), a satellite-direct-to-standard-phone (“sat2phone”) telecoms provider, and Slam Corp. (NASDAQ: SLAM), a special purpose acquisition company (“Slam”), today announced that they have entered into a definitive business […]
Airbus purchases Eutelsat OneWeb’s stake in satellite constellation manufacturing JV
Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc. announced completion of a deal with Eutelsat OneWeb to purchase its 50% share of the Airbus OneWeb Satellites (AOS) joint venture. Airbus is now the […]
Rocket Factory Augsburg names eight customers on second flight
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and the German Space Agency in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) today announced the winners of the second round of the payload competition for German launcher […]
Thaicom contracts Airbus for a OneSat flexible telecommunications satellite
Thaicom Public Company Limited has selected Airbus for its new generation, software-defined, High Throughput Satellite. Airbus will provide one of the company’s latest satellites — a fully reconfigurable OneSat. This […]
Reflex Aerospace’s first commercial customer, MBS, together accelerate innovation in orbit
Reflex Aerospace, a Munich and Berlin- based startup specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced satellites, has signed MBS as its first commercial customer. This strategic partnership will leverage […]
HawkEye 360 initiates manufacturing of their Satellite Clusters 12 + 13 under SFL’s Flex program
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced that HawkEye 360 has initiated manufacturing of the 12th and 13th Clusters of the company’s radio frequency (RF) geolocating, smallsat constellation — the six […]
Boeing delivers the most powerful satellite platform ever developed by the company to Viasat
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has delivered the most powerful satellite platform the company has built to date, the 702MP+, a custom-designed spacecraft for network provider Viasat [NASDAQ: VSAT]. Upon embarking from […]