SpaceX finally launches Indonesia’s Nusantara Lima mission on 9/11 from the Cape
The weather at the Cape in Florida finally cooperated after three unsuccessful scrubs as SpaceX's Falcon 9 on Thursday, September 11 launched the Nusantara Lima mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space ...
SpaceX launches Space Development Agency’s top secret Tranche 1 mission on Wednesday from California
On Wednesday, September 10 at 7:12 a.m. PT the Falcon 9 launched the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) first Tranche 1 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos captured ...
Forrester’s Digest: EchoStar sells spectrum to SpaceX; quits LEO plan
It seems that Charlie Ergen and EchoStar have decided to trim — if not exit — the satellite direct-to-consumer market. It is selling its AWS-4 and H-Block licenses (c. 50MHz of spectrum) to SpaceX for $17 billion (€14.5bn), with up ...
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Gilat awarded $8+ million from Israel’s MoD for strategic defense communication solutions
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT) has announced that its defense division, Gilat Defense, has been awarded a contract valued at more than $8 million by Israel’s Ministry of Defense for the delivery and integration of satellite communication ...
Firefly awarded $177 million NASA contract for mission to the Moon’s south pole
Artistic rendition of Firefly’s Elytra Dark vehicle deploying Blue Ghost into lunar orbit as part of Blue Ghost Mission 4. Image courtesy of Firefly. Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to ...
Forrester’s Digest: Amazon’s Kuiper readies next launches
Amazon’s Project Kuiper, its would-be broadband satellite rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, is gearing up for its next launches. It has a new 100,000 square foot payload processing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida that is capable of preparing ...
Sidus Space closes public offering
Sidus Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIDU) closed its previously announced best-efforts public offering of 7,143,000 shares of its Class A common stock. Each share of Class A common stock was sold at a public offering price of $1.05 per share for ...
SpaceX launches Starlink Group 10-29 of 28 smallsats from the Cape
SpaceX launched its next Starlink Group 10-29 of 28 V2 Mini satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida shortly before midnight on Tuesday at 11:37 p.m. EDT (0337 ...
SSC continues to transform acquisition of SATCOM capabilities—5 companies contracted
Artistic rendition of the Protected Tactical SATCOM payload will use the protected tactical waveform to provide anti-jamming communications to war fighters globally.Image is courtesy of U.S. Space Systems Command. The United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) continues ...
BAE Systems delivers NOAA’s SWFO-L1 + NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory satellites for launch
A BAE Systems technician inspects the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory satellite after the integration of the ultraviolet (UV) spectrometer onto the satellite bus.Credit: NASA/BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems BAE Systems has delivered two spacecraft in support of National Aeronautics and ...
Boeing-built X-37B Spaceplane set for 8th mission
Boeing-Built X-37B Spaceplane lands at Vandenberg Space Force Base to complete its seventh mission on March 7, 2025. It is slated to launch for its eight mission no earlier than August 21, 2025.(Image courtesy of the U.S. Space Force) The ...
NearSpace celebrates 1,000+ systems and subsystem on-orbit
NearSpace Launch, Inc. (NSL) has gained a major milestone: over 1,000 systems and subsystems have been successfully deployed on-orbit. Since the company's founding in 2014, NSL has grown from a visionary startup into a trusted spaceflight provider, delivering cutting-edge flight-proven ...
DataM Intelligence: Space propulsion market growth driven by deep space missions, green engines + satellite constellations
According to DataM Intelligence, the space propulsion market is set to grow at 12.42% CAGR, fueled by satellite constellations, lunar missions, and sustainable propulsion technologies. The Space Propulsion Market is rapidly gaining momentum as demand surges for more efficient, sustainable, ...
