Kleos Space S.A. (ASX:KSS, Frankfurt:KS1) has confirmed their Patrol Mission (KSF2) satellites are on track to launch onboard the SpaceX Transporter-3 mission that is targeted for January 13th and have successfully passed the final technical milestone with satellite builder Innovative Solutions In Space (ISISPACE). The Patrol Mission satellites traveled from the Netherlands to the launch […]
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Arianespace Lifts 36 Additional OneWeb Satellites To Their Orbital Slots
On Monday, December 27, at precisely 06:10 p.m. local time at Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome (01:10 p.m. UTC), Soyuz flight ST37 lifted-off with 36 OneWeb satellites. This flight was the 63rd Soyuz mission carried out by Arianespace, the 37th with the Starsem affiliate and the 12th mission for OneWeb. The mission lasted three hours and 45 […]
Satnews Publishers Wishes You A Wonderful Holiday
Satnews Publishers wishes all a Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or other celebratory event — Happy Holidays as we welcome 2022. In celebration of the holidays, the Satnews offices will be closed from December 20 through January 2nd, returning on Monday, January 3rd, 2022.
The SmallSat Symposium Returns… Bigger + Better Than Ever…
The SmallSat Symposium Silicon Valley 2022 will be in session from February 8 through 10, with the event workshops occurring on February 7. The SmallSat Symposium will, once again, be conducted at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. Realize — 97 percent of all launched satellites are smallsats — that is a massive and profound shift […]
SpaceX Launches Two Missions In Less Than 16 Hours
On December 18 at 4:41 a.m., PST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 52 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This competed the first eleventh launch and landing of an orbital class rocket booster. The Falcon 9 first stage booster had previously launched […]
Satellite Vu Contracts SSTL To Build Their First Thermal Data Collecting Smallsat
Satellite Vu has formally signed a contract with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to build the firm’s first satellite, which is scheduled to be launched into LEO in Q4 2022. The satellite will collect thermal data day and night of both the natural and the built environment at any location on the planet. The full […]
Airbus + OneWeb’s Partnership Is Expanded To Support European Defence + Security
Airbus and OneWeb have signed a distribution partner agreement to provide LEO satellite communication services for military and governmental use. Airbus will offer new communication services using the OneWeb constellation to select European and UK armed forces, and civil protection and security forces, from the end of 2021. Airbus and OneWeb plan to develop a […]
Launch Agreement Signed By Swedish Space Corporation For SatRevolution’s STORK EO Smallsat
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and the Polish space company, SatRevolution, have signed an agreement to launch SatRevolution’s STORK Earth Observation (WO) satellite constellation into LEO from Esrange Space Center in Sweden as well as subsequent constellation operation management — this agreement also includes cooperation on developing services using SSC’s Earth Observation data analytics capabilities through […]
Rocket Lab To Acquire SolAero
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SolAero Holdings, Inc. (SolAero), a supplier of space solar power products and precision aerospace structures for the global aerospace market, for $80 million in cash — the acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of […]
Blue Origin’s Sixth Flight Of The Year Is Accomplished
Blue Origin successfully completed their third human spaceflight— the first such mission with six astronauts on board. The astronaut manifest included: Laura Shepard Churchley Michael Strahan Evan Dick Dylan Taylor Cameron Bess Lane Bess “We had a great flight today. This was our sixth flight in what has been a great year for the New […]