On Friday, March 3 at 10:38 a.m. PT, SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 launched 51 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]
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AAC Clyde Space’s first transformational EPIC VIEW satellite to deliver hyperspectral imagery data to Wyvern
AAC Clyde Space, a leading new space company, has shipped the first of three satellites that are set to deliver hyperspectral imagery data to Canadian company, Wyvern. The satellites will […]
constellr + Exolaunch sign MLA for smallsat AgTech constellation deployment
constelIr and Exolaunch have signed a multi-launch agreement (MLA) for the former’s high precision versatile ecosphere monitoring (HiVE) smallsat constellation. The HiVE constellation is designed to provide advanced warning to […]
Spaceflight Inc. readies BlackSky smallsats for upcoming Rocket Lab launch
Spaceflight Inc. will launch two BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) satellites aboard Rocket Lab’s next mission called “The Beat Goes On,” from Mahia, New Zealand. The spacecraft, now in New Zealand for […]
TMC Technologies awarded West Virginia University contract to establish the Small Satellite Center of Excellence
West Virginia University Research Corporation has awarded TMC Technologies (TMC) a contract to be the private partner in creating and operating the West Virginia (WV) Small Satellite Center of Excellence […]
Australian space companies achieve critical propulsion technology commercialization milestone
Neumann Space and Inovor Technologies have successfully completed delivery of the Neumann Drive™ with the Apogee satellite platform ready for spacecraft integration and launch. This milestone represents the first time […]
UPDATE: Rocket Lab plans two launches that will be days apart from two continents for two companies: Capella Space + BlackSky
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch two dedicated missions in March from the Company’s launch sites in the United States and New Zealand — within days […]
SpaceX dispatches 21 2Gen Starlinks to orbit
On Monday, February 27th at 6:13 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 21, second-generation, Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]
NASA TechFlights 2023 Pre-Solicitation summary released
NASA has released a pre-solicitation summary for TechFlights 2023 [SAM.gov infolink], and anticipates a release of the solicitation on or about April 7, 2023. The purpose of TechFlights is to […]
GHGSat to launch 6 high-resolution emission monitoring satellites in 2023
GHGSat will be launching six additional satellites in 2023 — the first three are GHGSat satellites, named Mey-Lin (C6), Gaspard (C7) and Océane (C8) and they will travel into orbit […]