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Lockheed Martin’s first LM 400 multi-mission spacecraft is ready for final testing
Internally-funded LM 400 Tech Demonstrator Satellite Progresses Toward 2023 Launch LM 400 Mid-Sized Multi-Mission Satellite BusThe agile LM 400 is a flexible, mid-sized satellite bus customizable for military, civil or commercial users and designed to enable one platform to support ...
UPDATE 2: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launches 49 Starlinks and D-Orbit’s Eclectic Elena
SpaceX's Falcon 9 successfully launched 49 Starlink satellites and D-Orbit’s ION SCV009 Eclectic Elena to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, January 31st., at 8:15 a.m. , PT, (16:34 ...
In-Space Missions engaging in an APAC rideshare mission
In-Space Missions Ltd. is partnering with Singapore Space Technologies Ltd. (SSTL) to initiate Faraday Dragon, an Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional satellite rideshare mission that is targeted for launch in 2025. Faraday Dragon will fly multiple payloads for regional space players including ...
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) confirms successful deployment of HawkEye 360 Cluster 6 smallsats
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced that ground control has successfully established communication with three radio frequency (RF) geolocation smallsats developed by SFL for HawkEye 360 of Herndon, Virginia. Cluster 6 was launched on January 24, 2023, on the inaugural ...
The Spanish Ministry of Defence contracts Indra for Spanish airspace surveillance + control centers
The Spanish Ministry of Defence has awarded Indra a project to modernize and upgrade the nation's command, surveillance, identification and control (ARS) centers that are essential for combating potential threats to the country’s airspace. Indra Lanza 3D radar. Indra will ...
Seven nations meet to address space security
The Department of Defense participated in the annual Combined Space Operations (CSpO) Initiative Principals Board hosted by the New Zealand Defense Force and New Zealand Ministry of Defense in December of last year. The annual event brought together counterparts ...
Galileo’s High Accuracy Service to deliver free of charge Precise Point Positioning corrections down through 20 cm with correct receiver
Galileo constellation Galileo’s capabilities have grown with the addition of a new High Accuracy Service, freely available worldwide to anyone with a suitably equipped receiver. Delivering horizontal accuracy down to 20 cm and vertical accuracy of 40 cm, the High ...
SpaceX deploys 56 Starlink satellites to orbit
On Thursday, January 26th., at 4:22 a.m. ET (9:22 UTC), a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 56 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched ...
USAF’s NTS-3 Vanguard is now closer to a 2023 launch
The Department of the Air Force’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3, or NTS-3, Vanguard program has reached another major milestone in preparation for the satellite’s launch in late 2023. Industry partner L3Harris Technologies, the spacecraft prime contractor, recently delivered the NTS-3 space ...
Isar Aerospace + Spaceflight engage in a multi-launch agreement
Isar Aerospace and Spaceflight Inc. have signed a multi-launch services agreement — Spaceflight secured one dedicated launch in 2026 to SSO, taking off from Andøya, Norway, and an option to add an additional dedicated launch to occur in 2025. Spaceflight ...
USSF + USCG partner to strengthen their presence in the space domain
The United States Space Force Science, Technology, and Research Directorate and United States Coast Guard Research and Development Center solidified their commitment to collaborate and enhance space capabilities for the joint warfighter through a new memorandum of understanding. This significant ...
UPDATE: Rocket Lab’s 1st Launch from Wallops is a success as the Electron launch vehicle pushes three HawkEye 360 smallsats to orbit
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully launched the company's 33rd Electron rocket and first mission from Virginia after an earlier halt in the proceedings due to adverse weather conditions. The “Virginia is for Launch Lovers” mission lifted off ...
HawkEye 360 successfully launches the Cluster 6 satellites
HawkEye 360 Inc. has successfully deployed to orbit the company's Cluster 6, next-generation satellites aboard the inaugural Rocket Lab Electron flight from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Communication with the satellites ...
Thales Alenia Space + partners receive an ESA contract for TeQuantS quantum satellite project
Artistic rendition of TeQuantS satellites on-orbit Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the TeQuantS (Technological development for space-based Quantum reSource distribution) project aimed at developing quantum, space-to-Earth, communications technologies. This contract, ...
Space Systems Command sets new launch record for the U.S. Space Force
Space Systems Command accomplished delivery of USSF-67 and GPS III SV06 for the U.S. Space Force in just 61 hours, breaking a long-standing record in Assured Access to Space history. USSF-67 launched at 5:56 p.m. ET Jan. 15, 2023 from ...
Airbus finalizes JUICE — French Guiana the next stop for an Ariane 5 launch
ESA’s mission will study Jupiter’s three largest icy moons and the Jovian system’s magnetic fields Artistic rendition of the JUICE spacecraft, courtesy of Airbus. The Airbus-built JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission) spacecraft will shortly leave Toulouse, France, for Kourou, ...
UPDATE 2: The USSF’s GPS III SV06 makes its way to orbit courtesy of a SpaceX Falcon 9
SpaceX promptly uplifted the USSF, Lockheed Martin-built, GPS III Space Vehicle 06 (GPS II SV-06) to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, January 18th. The first stage booster supporting this mission had ...
SSC delivers the first hosted payload to Japan in historic USSF partnership
Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power’s (SDACP) Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted Payload (QZSS-HP) is prepared for delivery to Japan. (Photocredit MIT/LL) Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Domain Awareness & Combat Power (SDACP) Directorate has delivered the first ...
UPDATE 1: SpaceX sends Northrop Grumman’s USSF-67 two satellite mission to orbit via a Falcon Heavy — Northrop Grumman comments
SpaceX has successfully launched the U.S. Space Force's USSF-67 mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on January 15, 2023, with the liftoff of this National Security Space Launch (NSSL) payload aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. Both of the ...
