The two main instruments on board Eumetsat‘s Meteosat-12, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), play a crucial role in enabling meteorological services to help protect lives […]
Weather Imagery
Mechanical issue delays ESA’s Vega-C’s launch of Sentinel-1C to Thursday
Update: launch postponed to Thursday 5 December 2024. Due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry, the launch chronology has been stopped. The earliest targeted launch […]
UPDATE #6: SpaceX: Weather improves and 21 Starlinks sent to orbit
On Tuesday, August 22nd at 2:37 a.m. PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 was finally able to launch 21 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg […]
Capella Federal receives U.S. Space Systems Command award
Capella Federal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capella Space, has received an award for the Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellite-Based Services (PLEO) contract through U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC). With this […]