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Spaceflight will launch four Astrocast 3U spacecraft aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission under a commercial arrangement with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) — this mission, scheduled for October of 2022, will launch from Sriharikota, India’s Satish Dhawan Space ...

On Saturday, September 10th, at 9:20 p.m., ET, SpaceX launched 34 Starlink satellites to enhance their constellation, as well as AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite, to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was ...

Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch as many as five of the company's remaining, ground spare satellites from the Iridium® NEXT program, on a Falcon 9 rocket. Known as Iridium-9, the launch is ...

Space Systems Command's (SSC) Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program has awarded a Cost-Plus Incentive Fee contract for $272 million to SciTec Inc. for Mission Data Processing Application Provider (MDPAP). MDPAP will deliver critical applications for the nation’s missile ...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been awarded multi-million-dollar orders from SES as the companies extend their global strategic cooperation. SES, in cooperation with Gilat, is expanding the company's SATCOM business reach using Gilat’s SkyEdge IV multi-orbit, multi-service capabilities. These activities ...

Image of Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket, courtesy of the company. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to explore the possibility of using the company’s Neutron and ...

BAE Systems is set to launch its first multi-sensor satellite cluster into LEO in 2024 to deliver high-quality information and intelligence — in real time — from space to military customers. Known as Azalea™, the group of satellites will use ...

Photo of the SWOT satellite @ Thales Alenia Space. Photo is courtesy of the company. After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space agencies ...

Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC, and SEAKR Engineering, LLC, wholly owned subsidiaries of Raytheon Technologies, have announced that they have delivered one, Saturn-class, microsat bus and have also completed acceptance testing of the first two of 12, Pit Boss Battle Management ...

to orbit On Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Artistic ...

UPDATE 4 Another delay, September 3, has prevented the Artemis launch. However all was bright as earlier this Saturday morning the NASA launch director called a “go” for propellant loading, and NASA engineers were able to successfully start running liquid ...

Artistic rendition of the EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satellite on-orbit, courtesy of Thales Group. Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) will support the delivery of high-speed broadband across Europe as well as connectivity services by providing the SpaceGate ground connectivity ...

On Tuesday, August 30 at 10:40 p.m. PT, SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the seventh flight for this Falcon 9 ...

Photo of the New Shepard crew capsule descending under parachutes in the West Texas desert on January 23, 2019 (NS-10). Image is courtesy of Blue Origin. UPDATE 1 Weather has proven to be the undoing of the Blue Origin NS-23 ...

Nova Scotia, Canada, is a step closer to becoming a global destination for commercial space launch, as Maritime Launch Services (Nova Scotia) Ltd. has been approved to start construction of Spaceport Nova Scotia, Canada’s first commercial spaceport. “This is historic ...

Alba Orbital's AlbaPod smallsat deployers. Alba Orbital Inc. and SAB Launch Services S.r.l. (SAB LS) have signed an agreement to fly six AlbaPod pico-satellite deployers, and respective PocketQubes, on Arianespace Vega missions VV25 and VV26. This agreement facilitates the first ...

SpaceX’s Chief Engineer Elon Musk and T-Mobile’s CEO and President Mike Sievert have announced a plan to provide truly universal cellular connectivity. T-Mobile President Mike Sievert (l) and SpaceX's Elon Musk at their announcement event. In spite of powerful LTE ...

Constellations of 5G satellites are set to play a vital role in completing the technology and connectivity ecosystem addressing critical connectivity challenges, such as data speed and coverage limitations as well fulfilling the needs of a wide range of emerging ...

Synspective develops and operates Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites and provides solutions based on satellite data analysis. The company developed a ground deformation analysis device and method with a slope instability detection feature that identifies predictive changes of landslides and ...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has delivered two satellites for SES to the firm's launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of the upcoming launch of the twin spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The pair of all-electric ...