Europe’s next two Galileo satellites have been attached to the dispenser on which they will ride to orbit, and the launcher fairing that will protect them during the first part […]
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Arianespace VS26 Mission Preparing For Galileo x2 Launch Aboard Soyuz
On Tuesday, December 1, 2021, Arianespace, the European launch service company, will operate Soyuz flight VS26 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s spaceport. Two additional Galileo satellites, Galileo FOC 23-24, […]
RUAG Space Packs Product Into Galileo NavSats That Are Set To Launch This Week
On Thursday, December 2 (CET), another two Galileo navigation satellites will be launched by Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket. This will raise the number of […]
NASA’s Double Asteroid DART Mission Launched By SpaceX
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched on Wednesday, November 24, at 1:21 […]
Maritime Launch Services First Payload Services Provider Is Nanoracks — Spaceport Nova Scotia Is ‘Unveiled’
Maritime Launch Services, the owner of Canada’s first commercial spaceport, has announced that Nanoracks, a Voyager Space company and a leading, commercial, payload provider to the International Space Station (ISS), […]
Space Systems Command’s STP-3 Satellites Now Encapsulated Aboard ULA’s Atlas V 551 Launch Vehicle At Cape Canaveral AFS
Space Systems Command’s Space Test Program (STP)-3 integrated payload stack, which contains the STP Satellite (STPSat)-6 and the Long Duration Propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA), or LDPE-1 […]
Astra’s Rocket 3.3’s Fourth Launch Attempt Is Successful From Kodiak Island, Alaska
Astra Space, Inc. (“Astra”) (Nasdaq: ASTR) successfully completed their first, commercial, orbital launch for the United States Space Force (USSF) on November 19, 2021, PST. The launch, STP-27AD2, was conducted […]
Strategic Agreement Signed By Voyager Space + Space Micro
Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager) is intending to acquire a majority stake in Space Micro, an innovative engineering-driven business focused on advancing high-performance satellite communications (SATCOM), digital and electro-optical systems with more […]
NanoAvionics Preparing To Launch Their 5th Rideshare Mission Via Exolaunch Aboard The SpaceX Transporter-4 Mission
NanoAvionics has announced their latest satellite rideshare mission “MP42” is to be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 with payloads from OQ Technology and Veoware. Using the prototype of its […]
Rocket Factory Augsburg Agrees To Launch Lunar Research Service’s Smallsat
Lunar Research Service (LRS) and Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) have agreed on a launch service contract. RFA will fly a research mission of Ukraine-based LRS with its RFA ONE […]