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UPDATE: On a picture perfect Friday, December 1 at 10:19 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the Korea 425 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. There were a total ...

Arcfield has completed the firm's acquisition of Orion Space Solutions (Orion), a Colorado-based developer of end-to-end space mission capabilities and solutions. The acquisition of Orion enhances Arcfield’s space exploration and hypersonic detection and tracking capabilities for agencies in the Department ...

The Assured Access to Space (AATS) Directorate of Space Systems Command (SSC) and SpaceX are preparing a Falcon Heavy rocket for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program. The mission, designated U.S. Space Force (USSF)-52, is targeted to lift off ...

 Vaya Space, a privately owned company, achieved a significant milestone in defense technology with successful demonstrations of a revolutionary tactical missile class vortex-hybrid engine. The breakthrough tests, witnessed by representatives from Army Futures Command, NASA, and the Prime Contractor Community, took place at ...

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing [NYSE: BA] company, achieved the Missile Track Custody (MTC) space vehicle Critical Design Review (CDR) less than a year after authorization to proceed. The company will now deliver six space vehicles for MTC Epoch 1 ...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has successfully demonstrated the first-ever Link 16 network entry through space to ground connection from LEO to a series of receivers using terrestrial radios during three demonstrations held November 21-27, 2023. Operators working with SDA ...

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (NTT DOCOMO), NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) have formed a strategic collaboration with Project Kuiper, the LEO satellite broadband network from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 23 Starlink satellites (Starlink-124 / Starlink 6-30) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on 28 November 2023, at 04:20 UTC (27 November, ...

SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 27 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 11:20 p.m. ET, with ...

Intelsat is the first commercial customer for SWISSto12’s innovative HummingSat geostationary telecommunications satellite, developed with its patented 3D printing technology in collaboration with the European Space Agency Inspired by the tiny, fast-moving hummingbird, ESA and SWISSto12 have signed a contract ...

Watch the live launch broadcast of Ireland’s first satellite — EIRSAT-1 — on ESA Web TV Channel 2 and ESA YouTube, currently scheduled for November 29th. Photo of EIRSAT-1, courtesy of ESA. Coverage of this historic moment is set to ...

A three-stage sounding rocket launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on November 15, 2023. Sandia National Laboratories NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility successfully supported the launch of two, suborbital, sounding rockets on November 15, 2023, for Navy Strategic Systems ...

Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), provider of satellite communications, and Skylo Technologies, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, launched the world's first global direct-to-device (D2D) network. The companies' global infrastructure agreement will, for the first time, enable Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), ...

On Monday, November 20 at 2:30 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. For this Starlink launch it was the 55th delivery ...

Amazon's Project Kuiper has validated all systems and subsystems on board its prototype satellites and has also demo'd the first, two-way video call over Amazon’s end-to-end communications network. Within 30 days of sending two prototype satellites into space, Project Kuiper ...

UPDATE #2: "We have liftoff," as Starship returned to integrated flight testing with it’s second launch from Starbase in Texas. While it didn’t happen in a lab or on a test stand, it was absolutely a test. What we did ...

Hot off the heels of the DRACO announcement in July 2023, Lockheed Martin was awarded $33.7 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) High Power program to mature high-power nuclear electric power and propulsion ...

The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer is designed to detect, track and ultimately target hypersonic and ballistic missiles. (Image Credit: Northrop Grumman) Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed the company's Critical Design Review (CDR) on a proliferated LEO constellation of ...

On Sunday, November 12, at 4:08 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched the SES O3b mPOWER mission to MEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the ninth flight of the first stage ...

Space Systems Command (SSC) has assigned 21 new launch service mission assignments for the FY24 National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement contract following completion of the NSSL Mission Assignment Board (MAB)’s assignment process for FY24 launch ...