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On Friday, October 13 at 7:01 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 14th flight for the first stage ...

Courtesy of SpaceX UPDATE 2: On Friday, October 13 at 10:19 a.m. ET, Falcon Heavy launched NASA's Psyche mission to an interplanetary transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the fourth launch ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Gaia collaboration teams are publishing new data in the form of five Focused Product Releases. The results are very promising, making of this delivery a first teaser of what will be the fourth ...

Relativity Space has signed a multi-year, multi-launch, Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with Intelsat wherein the company will launch Intelsat satellites on the firm's Terran R launch vehicle as early as 2026.  As a medium-to-heavy-lift, reusable launch vehicle made for growing ...

Open Cosmos provides a new generation 12U spacecraft platform, MANTIS. This platform hosts the Integrated Standard Imager for Microsatellites (iSIM-12U), an innovative, high-resolution, optical payload for EO missions developed by Satlantis Microsats SL. Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency ...

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has announced that the company's Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in preparation for launch next month. Pelican-1, designed and manufactured by Planet, is the ...

Space Systems Command (SSC), the United States Space Force (USSF) field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient space capabilities, is now accepting applications for the organization's inaugural Project Apollo cohort. Details and on-line applications can be found at ...

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is celebrating 25 years of building smallsats that provide big returns for commercial, government, and research clients — established in 1998, SFL has built 70 operationally successful satellites. recording 270 years on-orbit for dozens of distinct ...

On Friday, October 8, 2023, at 22:36 p.m. local time (01:36 a.m. UTC), Arianespace’s Vega mission successfully lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the optical observation satellite THEOS-2, the weather satellite FORMOSAT-7R TRITON as well as ...

PLD Space has made history after successfully completing the launch of the first private European rocket, MIURA 1 — this milestone achievement reinforces PLD Space's position in building national and European strategic capabilities. The first launch of MIURA 1 occurred ...

Liftoff!: Atlas V Project Kuiper ProtoflightThe United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Protoflight mission for Amazon's Project Kuiper lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 2:06 p.m. EDT on October 6.Photo by United Launch Alliance Success. A picture ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE), on October 5th, completed the company's fifth successful human space mission in five months — ‘Galactic 04.’ The three private astronauts aboard ‘Galactic 04’ bring different backgrounds and cultures to the mission, along with ...

The cameras at the launch site were visibly shaking due to the strong winds, but the launch took place to everyone's relief. THURSDAY UPDATE: SpaceX launches ... After numerous delays beginning on the evening of October 4th the launch took ...

SpaceX photo from Friday, September 29 launch WEDNESDAY UPDATE: SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, October 4 at 10:45 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral ...

PLD Space has successfully concluded the two pre-launch tests of the first flight unit of the Spanish launcher, specifically the umbilical cable tests and the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) — the positive results obtained during these tests effectively give the ...

The Protoflight mission payload arrives at the VIF. Photo by United Launch Alliance L-3 UPDATE: Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the Protoflight mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper. The mission is planned to lift off ...

UPDATE: The weather held and so on Friday, September 29 at 10:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the ...

SpaceX has received its first contract from the US Space Force to provide specialized satellite communications to the military as part of the company’s new Starshield program. The company is competing with 15 companies for $900 million in work orders ...

The launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 501 rocket carrying Amazon’s Project Kuiper Protoflight mission is planned for Fri., Oct. 6 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The launch window opens at ...

Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded a $10 million University-Affiliated Research Center laboratory contract to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Lab (APL) to ensure software and cyber best practices are adhered to in the newly awarded Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) ground segment, ...