ESA and Avio sign contract for a reuseable upper stage demonstration mission
The contract was signed by the European Space Agency’s Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen and Avio’s Chief Commercial Officer and Launch Services Director Marino Fragnito, at the International Aeronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia. The European Space Agency and Avio ...
United Launch Alliance launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper 3 mission sending 27 operational broadband satellites connecting the world
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper 3 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 on September 25, at 8:09 a.m. EDT, delivering the future of global connectivity for Amazon. Photo by United Launch Alliance A ...
Isar Aerospace + R-Space sign launch agreement
Satellite launch service company Isar Aerospace and R-Space have signed a launch service agreement as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Marketplace program. Under the agreement, Isar Aerospace will launch two R-Space satellites aboard of its ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle ...
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Rocket Lab to launch “Live, Laugh, Launch,” on Saturday
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) a global provider of launch services and space systems, is scheduled to launch its next dedicated mission on Electron this weekend. The mission is scheduled to lift off less than three weeks after Electron’s previous ...
US Space Force prepares X-37B Mission 8 for launch
X-37B inside payload fairing before launch of eighth mission. (U.S. Space Force photo) ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The U.S. Space Force, in partnership with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and SpaceX, is making final preparations to launch the eighth ...
SpaceX ready for Thursday launch of USSF-36 mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, August 21 at 11:50 p.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-36 mission to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A backup launch opportunity is available at the ...
New Shepard’s 35th mission targets liftoff on Saturday, August 23, will fly more than 40 payloads to space
Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight, NS-35, is an uncrewed mission with more than 40 scientific and research payloads onboard. This is the program’s 35th mission and will bring the total number of payloads flown on New Shepard to more ...
Get SAT equips Republic of Korea Navy aircraft with advanced SATCOM capabilities
Get SAT with KT SAT and KAI Networks have completed the upgrade of two P-3C maritime patrol aircraft for the Republic of Korea Navy. The P-3C is a maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare ...
Samara Aerospace awarded NASA SBIR Phase I to advance breakthrough spacecraft attitude control tech
Samara Aerospace has been awarded a Phase I contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to advance its Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC)—a cutting- edge technology designed to revolutionize spacecraft attitude control and jitter mitigation using intelligent, ...
SpaceX launches 24 smallsats of Starlink Group 17-5 on Monday from sunny California
On Monday, August 18 at 9:26 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Starlink megaconstellation has more ...
Xtar’s new Chief Executive Officer has served more than 40 years in uniformed and industry capacities
X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging XTAR, LLC, a U.S. affiliate of Hisdesat S.A. of Madrid announced that Patrick H. Rayermann has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rayermann will drive the organization forward to its next phase ...
The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter
Artistic rendition of the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, courtesy of Blue Origin Blue Origin designs and manufactures heavy-lift rockets, transporters, landers, and orbiters to explore the Red Planet efficiently and affordably—built upon the company's existing and affordable Blue Ring platform, the ...
Agile Space Industries to provide propulsion for The Exploration Company’s Nyx mission to the ISS
Agile Space Industries has been contacted by The Exploration Company (TEC) to deliver flight thrusters for Nyx, a European modular space capsule that will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) targeting 2028—this contract marks a new international partnership for ...
