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Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle lifted off from their West Texas launch site today at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT; 8:40 a.m. local Texas time), launching this suborbital flight known as NS-36. Photos captured by Satnews. New Shepard's first stage ...

The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:15 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which ...

Exolaunch will deploy 13 satellites for global customers on the upcoming SpaceX Bandwagon-4 mission—the flight is scheduled to lift off no earlier than November 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, Florida, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Following a remarkable ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has secured a second, multi-launch contract with Synspective, a leading Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data and analytics company. The new contract for a further 10 dedicated Electron launches brings the total number of upcoming ...

The contract was signed by the European Space Agency’s Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen and Avio’s Chief Commercial Officer and Launch Services Director Marino Fragnito, at the International Aeronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia. The European Space Agency and Avio ...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper 3 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 on September 25, at 8:09 a.m. EDT, delivering the future of global connectivity for Amazon. Photo by United Launch Alliance  A ...

Satellite launch service company Isar Aerospace and R-Space have signed a launch service agreement as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Marketplace program. Under the agreement, Isar Aerospace will launch two R-Space satellites aboard of its ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle ...

Success with a beautiful release On Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched NASA’s IMAP mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photos captured by Satnews. IMAP, or the Interstellar Mapping ...

INNOSPACE (KS:462350) has signed a multi-launch service contract worth $5.8 million with Media Broadcast Satellite GmbH (“MBS”) in Germany. Under the agreement, INNOSPACE will carry out two HANBIT launch missions to deploy MBS satellites into LEO, with one launch in ...

On Monday, September 22 at 10:38 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the NROL-48 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The are satellites built with Northrop Grumman on commercial Starlink buses with ...

Blue Origin has completed their 35th New Shepard flight and 15th payload mission from Launch Site One in West Texas—this flight carried more than 40 payloads from students, NASA, research institutions, and commercial companies, bringing the total number of science ...

Artistic rendition of the THOR 8 satellite is courtesy of Thales Alenia Space. Space Norway has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of the new communications satellite, THOR 8, into GEO. The mission, which will launch aboard a ...

On a sunny Sunday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched Northrop Grumman’s next Cygnus mission (NG-23) to the International Space Station. Liftoff was 6:11 p.m. ET This mission will be the first flight of ...

The weather at the Cape in Florida finally cooperated after three unsuccessful scrubs as SpaceX's Falcon 9 on Thursday, September 11 launched the Nusantara Lima mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space ...

On Wednesday, September 10 at 7:12 a.m. PT the Falcon 9 launched the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) first Tranche 1 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos captured ...

It seems that Charlie Ergen and EchoStar have decided to trim — if not exit — the satellite direct-to-consumer market. It is selling its AWS-4 and H-Block licenses (c. 50MHz of spectrum) to SpaceX for $17 billion (€14.5bn), with up ...

Artistic rendition of EIRSAT-1 courtesy of University College Dublin, Ireland EIRSAT-1, developed by a team of students and staff at University College Dublin through ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! program, has made history as Ireland’s first satellite. Technicians at work building ...

Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to join a consortium studying the European Space Agency’s (ESA) FutureEO program mission, SIRIUS (Space Based Infra-Red Imager for Urban Sustainability). NanoAvionics will contribute its small satellite expertise, including the ...

Starship’s tenth flight test lifted off on August 26, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. CT from Starbase, Texas, taking a significant step forward in developing the world’s first fully reusable launch vehicle.The results were a significant step forward as every major ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched a new Earth-observation satellite along with several smaller spacecraft from California on Tuesday (Aug. 26). Photos captured by Satnews. NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys ...