A reconstruction between Loral Space & Communications and Canada’s Telesat has been under assorted discussion for years, and years, and then some… The complications around any merger were made especially […]
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Sentinel-6 Soars Spacewards Via SpaceX Send-Off
At 18:17 (09:17 US Pacific time) on November 21, 2020, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air […]
UK Government’s Acquisition Of OneWeb Now Completed
The acquisition of global satellite communications company, OneWeb, has been completed as of Friday, November 20, following a successful UK Government bid in July of 2020 in a consortium with […]
Rocket Lab’s “Return to Sender” Successfully Launches With 30 Smallsats
Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 16th Electron mission and deployed 30 small satellites to orbit, the largest number of satellites deployed by Electron to date on a single mission. The […]
Astroscale’s End-Of-Life Services Satellite, ELSA-D, To Launch In March Of 2021
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that the firm’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, […]
UPDATE: Mission Failure Arianespace’s Vega VV17 — SEOSAT-Ingenio / TARANIS: Lost
Thankfully, news of this sort, regarding a mission failure, is a rarity and unfortunate in many ways. Vega launched and appeared to be flying smoothly, but after eight minutes, issues […]
NASA, SpaceX Officials Thrilled With Crew-1 Launch Success
It was a picture perfect launch during a beautiful evening on Florida’s Space Coast, as NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) blasted off […]
UPDATED: United Launch Alliance’s Successful Launch of NROL-101 In Support Of National Security
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched their Atlas V rocket with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) NROL-101 payload aboard on November 13 at 5:32 p.m., EST, from Space Launch […]
Integrated For Launch Vega’s Payload Will Achieve A First Looking At Earth And Atmosphere Above Thunderstorms
Arianespace‘s upcoming launch of the Vega flight celebrates a first; The two passengers on Arianespace’s upcoming Vega flight — will focus on the Earth and its dynamic atmosphere above thunderstorms […]
A First … France’s Satellite to Observe Electromagnetic Phenomena Above Thunderstorms and Spain’s Scientific and EO Satellites
In the world of satellites, what initially were challenges are steadily being resolved, as this announcement from Arianespace reveals. On November 16, Arianespace will carry out its seventh launch of […]