UPDATE 2 Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 18th Electron mission, ‘Another One Leaves The Crust,’ on 20:26 NZDT / 07:26 UTC on January 20, 2021. The launch was procured […]
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SpaceX’s Next Starlink Sixty Sent To Space
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 8:02 a.m. EST, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, completing the seventeenth Starlink mission. […]
Redwire Acquires Oakman Aerospace
Redwire has acquired Oakman Aerospace, Inc. (OAI), a provider of products and services related to digital engineering, spacecraft and satellite design and development, mission payload development, and data distribution services. […]
Multiple Launch Agreement by Satellogic Names SpaceX As Preferred Rideshare Mission Provider
Satellogic has announced a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with SpaceX — through this agreement, SpaceX becomes Satellogic’s preferred vendor for rideshare missions. The first launch, scheduled for June 2021, […]
Aurora Insight’s Charlie To Launch Via The SpaceX Transporter-1 From Canaveral
Aurora Insight is scheduled to launch its second, satellite-based. radio frequency spectrum sensor on SpaceX’s Transporter-1, on Friday, January 22nd from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch is a part of […]
Iodine Propulsion Proven Viable For Smallsats In Space By ThrustMe + Spacety
The space industry seeks new solutions to ensure economic and environmental space sustainability with the rise of satellite mega-constellations. A solution lies in the use of on-orbit propulsion, but traditional […]
Virgin Orbit’s 2nd Launch Demo Is Completed + 10 Smallsats Air Launched Via The LauncherOne Rocket
Virgin Orbit‘s LauncherOne rocket reached space during the company’s second launch demonstration on January 17, 2021, successfully deploying 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP). Virgin Orbit’s launch system […]
UPDATE: Blue Origin’s New Shepard Launch Is Successful
Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th mission to space and back on January 14, 2021, for the New Shepard program. Mission NS-14 featured a crew capsule outfitted with astronaut experience […]
Space Mobility On-Orbit Demo Success By Exotrail
Exotrail reports the full success of the first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect electric propulsion technology. Through an In-Orbit Demonstration mission launched to LEO on November 7, 2020, onboard a […]
L3Harris Demos Antenna Tech For USSF MILSATCOM
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has successfully completed a technology demonstration, under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract, for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system to improve communications with the agency’s […]