Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl and a LauncherOne flight. Photo is courtesy of the company. As Virgin Orbit‘s first customer payloads take their victory laps around the Earth, the company is […]
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Four Axelspace GRUS To Launch At Baikonur In March
The launch date of the four Axelspace satellites (GRUS-1B, 1C, 1D, 1E) is set for March 20, 2021, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. These smallsats will become part of the […]
General Atomics-EMS Contracts Rocket Lab To Launch The Argos-4
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch the GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) […]
Two Smallsats Launched By Nanoracks Via The NG-15 Cygnus Mission
On February 22, the Northrop Grumman NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station (ISS), carrying two cubesats in the Nanoracks External Cygnus Deployer (E-NRCSD). The Cygnus arrived at […]
General Atomics EMS Selects Firefly Aerospace To Take MAIA To Orbit
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has awarded a contract to Firefly Aerospace Inc. to launch a GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) […]
UPDATE 1: Perseverance Pays Off — ULA Lands NASA’s Rover Successfully Landing On Mars
Cheers erupted in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as controllers confirmed that NASA’s Perseverance rover, with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attached to its belly, has touched down safely […]
Telesat Signs An MoU With Québec + Receives Millions Of C$ For Investment In The Lightspeed Constellation
Telesat has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Québec for an investment of C$400 million into Telesat Lightspeed, Telesat’s LE) satellite network. Telesat will invest […]
Spaceflight Details Their Upcoming Amazonia-1 Launch From Satish Dawn Space Center
Spaceflight Inc. has revealed the details about the upcoming launch of their largest customer satellite launch to date, the Amazonia-1 spacecraft. To accommodate the nearly 700-kilogram satellite, Spaceflight purchased an […]
SpaceX’s 19th Starlink Launch Is A Success
The 5th SpaceX Starlink launch via a Falcon 9, two-stage rocked occurred successfully on Monday, February 15, 2021, at 10:59 p.m., ET, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape […]
Direct From SmallSat Symposium, Dr. Derek M. Tournear, Director, Space Development Agency, Keynote Address
I’m excited to talk about the Space Development Agency and what we have done over the past year and our year term and long term visions. I want to talk […]