Exolaunch has successfully delivered 34 satellites into orbit during the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX which launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on January 14, 2025 at 11:09 […]
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Varda’s W-2 spacecraft launched to orbit with SpaceX with Koonibba Test Range up next
Varda Space Industries has announced the successful launch of the company’s second orbital processing spacecraft and re-entry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX from […]
Digantara launches India’s 1st homegrown space surveillance mission via SpaceX’s Transporter-12
Digantara has announced the launch of the company’s SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking), inaugural mission that is dedicated to space surveillance and was launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission—SCOT aims […]
Forrester’s Digest: UAE’s Space42 wants to build LEO constellation
Space42 is the newly-established combination of Abu Dhabi’s Al Yah (YahSat) and Bayanat AI, which operates the Thuraya fleet of satellites. Its latest, Thuraya 4, was launched on January 3rd […]
BlackSky wins USSF rapid procurement contracts to support TacSRT missions
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has won multiple rapid procurement contracts for its high-margin, core analytics services through the U.S. Space Force’s online Global Data Marketplace (GDM) supporting a variety […]
Rocket Lab on track in development of spacecraft constellation for SDA
Rocket Lab National Security LLC has successfully completed the company’s Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta (T2TL-Beta) program — this milestone marks […]
Spire to launch LEMUR satellites via SpaceX
Spire Global will be launching six LEMUR satellites aboard the SpaceX Transporter-12 mission, advancing IoT connectivity, weather forecasting, and maritime monitoring. Two LEMUR 3 satellites, developed in collaboration with Myriota, […]
Planet: Satellite imagery of the Los Angeles County wildfire disasters
Some of the initial Planet imagery of the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County are published below, courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.
Pale Blue to test the world’s 1st 1U+ water Ion thruster on-orbit with D-Orbit
Pale Blue Inc. (Pale Blue) will demonstrate the world-first, 1U+, Water Ion Thruster (PBI) on D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier twice during 2025. By adding space heritage multiple times, Pale Blue […]
SIIS signs MOU with Pixxel to introduce hyperspectral satellite data in Korea
SIIS Co., Ltd. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pixxel, a U.S.-India-based space technology company that is building the world’s highest-resolution hyperspectral satellite constellation, to supply hyperspectral satellite […]