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Space Systems Command (SCC) prepares the Space Test Program-Houston 9 (STP-H9) mission containing eight DoD Space Test Program (STP) experimental payloads in the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) before being turned over to NASA for ...

Magellan Aerospace Corporation (“Magellan”) has received a contract from the Government of Canada to design, build, launch, and operate the Redwing smallsat. Directed by the Department of National Defence’s science and technology organization, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), the ...

The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted with ThinKom Solutions, Inc. to deliver a modular and scalable phased-array antenna solution to support ground segment operations. The new ThinKom gateway array delivers a fully customizable solution, allowing for ...

On Thursday, March 9th, SpaceX launched the OneWeb 17 mission to LEO via a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40 — photo below) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The first stage booster supporting this ...

Space Launch Delta (SLD) 45 will allocate several launch pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCSFS) as a part of the new Launch Pad Allocation Strategy (LPAS) Through the LPAS, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and SLD 45 have ...

Relativity Space is scheduled for the first launch of their Terran 1 rocket, called "GLHF" (Good Luck, Have Fun), from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch window opens at 1:00 p.m., ET, on March 8, 2023. This ...

The Satnews offices will be closed on Monday, April 10 and resume business on Tuesday, April 11. Photo by Pattie Lesser ...

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received an award valued at more than $250 million to design, develop and deliver a seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation, as well as support launch and ground operations by the Space Development Agency. Once deployed, ...

constelIr and Exolaunch have signed a multi-launch agreement (MLA) for the former’s high precision versatile ecosphere monitoring (HiVE) smallsat constellation. The HiVE constellation is designed to provide advanced warning to AgTech companies of plant stress from temperature-induced evapotranspiration. This data ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch two dedicated missions in March from the Company’s launch sites in the United States and New Zealand — within days of each other. Rocket Lab Electron on the launch pad ...

On Monday, February 27th at 6:13 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 21, second-generation, Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the third launch and landing of this Falcon ...

NASA has released a pre-solicitation summary for TechFlights 2023 [SAM.gov infolink], and anticipates a release of the solicitation on or about April 7, 2023. The purpose of TechFlights is to provide funding for the rapid testing or demonstration of space ...

BeetleSat, formerly NSLComm, has successfully deployed their lightweight, very high data rate, expandable antenna in space — this on-orbit deployment of BeetleSat’s 60 cm expandable antenna from a 6U cubesSat — an industry first — marks a significant milestone in ...

Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale") has closed a Series G round with more than $76 million in funding from new investors Mitsubishi Electric, Yusaku Maezawa, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mitsubishi Corporation, Development Bank of Japan, and FEL Corporation — with the closing ...

Recently, one of Europe's Galileo satellites has been reconfigured to emit a new signal component optimized to serve low-end receiver devices and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. One of the Galileo satellites in elliptical orbit – officially known as GSAT0202 ...

Pictured: Left: Steve Collar, CEO, SES ± Right, François Bausch, Minister of Defense The Government of Luxembourg will leverage SES’s high-performance, second-generation, Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) system – O3b mPOWER – as a critical, resilient, SATCOM infrastructure for Luxembourg, the nation's partners ...

Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has announced that the firm's wholly-owned subsidiary, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (“Tyvak”), has been awarded a $2.4 billion contract to design, build and deploy 288 LEO satellites for Rivada Space Networks — as part of ...

Artistic rendition of ULTRASAT, courtesy of the Weizmann Institute. NASA will launch Israel’s first space telescope mission, the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT), which is an ultraviolet observatory with a large field of view and will investigate the secrets of ...

Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific personnel successfully completed a cross-banding demo that successfully connected legacy 5 kHz Ultra High Frequency (UHF) military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) channel operators with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) modern Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ...

UPDATE: Two successful second launch in one day Success again for SpaceX this time in Florida at night at Cape Canaveral AFS as Inmarsat 6-F2 successfully launched from Falcon 9. And another success as for the 173rd return to the ...