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Rocket Factory Augsburg + Spaceflight sign an MOU for upcoming launches
Spaceflight Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for upcoming launches with Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) — this agreement formalizes the plan for Spaceflight to fly their Sherpa® orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) and other rideshare payloads on upcoming ...
Reusable rocket stage project named Susie is unveiled by ArianeGroup
ArianeGroup presents Susie (Smart Upper Stage for Innovative Exploration), an entirely reusable stage project that meets the future needs of transport and other missions to and in space. Susie will be able to function as an automated freighter and carry ...
Gilmour Space reveals their first rideshare mission launch to LEO
Gilmour Space Technologies will launch a dedicated rideshare mission into LEO in late 2024. Artistic rendition of Gilmour Space’s Eris Block 2 launch vehicle that will launch Caravan-1, the company's first dedicated rideshare mission in late 2024. Image is courtesy ...
GomSpace to build six more satellites for Unseenlabs
GomSpace has signed a contract with Unseenlabs to deliver six more satellites. The contract value is 43 million Swedish Kroner (MSEK), including the authorization to proceed valued at 12 MSEK that started this project (Disclosed on July 7th) — the ...
Rocket Lab successfully launches their 30th Electron rocket + 150th satellite to space
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has delivered its 30th mission and 150th satellite to orbit following the company's latest successful Electron launch Thursday, September 15 at 20:38 UTC. “The Owl Spreads Its Wings” dedicated mission for Japanese EO company Synspective launched ...
Excellence in Satellite Communications award winners named at World Satellite Business Week
Winners for the Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Communications have been revealed from Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) held in the Westin Hotel in the heart of Paris, France. The Annual Award honors a new cohort of finalists ...
OneWeb + Arianespace sign a new agreement for possible future launches
OneWeb and Arianespace have signed a new agreement that follows the earlier suspension of the launches on September 13, 2022. Following that suspension of OneWeb’s launches in March of 2022, OneWeb and Arianespace have now reached an agreement pursuant to ...
Astrobotic acquires Masten Space Systems
Astrobotic has acquired Masten Space Systems, including that firm's heritage of more than 600 vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL) rocket flights. — this acquisition also includes Masten’s portfolio of advanced space technology development programs that have been advanced over 18 ...
Thales Alenia Space awarded KT SAT contract to build the KOREASAT 6A satellite
Artistic rendition of KOREASAT 6A on-orbit. Image is courtesy of Thales Alenia Space. KT SAT Corporation Ltd. (KT SAT) and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract for the build of the KOREASAT 6A communications satellite. KOREASAT 6A will replace ...
SpaceX to launch 54 Starlinks on September 13th
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, September 13, for a Falcon 9 launch of 54 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Launch, landing and deployment graphic, courtesy of SpaceX. The ...
Spaceflight books Astrocast smallsats for launch to SSO via NewSpace India’s PSLV launch vehicle
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 ...
SpaceX lifts 34 Starlinks + AST Space Mobile’s BlueWalker 3 to orbit via their Falcon 9
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 announces their 9th SpaceX launch to occur in mid-2023
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 issues million$$$ contract to SciTec
Space Systems Command's (SSC) Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program has awarded a Cost-Plus Incentive Fee contract for $272 million to SciTec Inc. for Mission Data Processing Application Provider (MDPAP). MDPAP will deliver critical applications for the nation’s missile ...
Gilat Satellite Networks awarded million$ by SES for SATCOM business expansion
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 ...
Set to explore neutron + electron rockets — Rocket Lab signs an agreement with USTRANSCOM for global cargo delivery
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 ...
LEO satellite cluster from BAE Systems to provide secure digital military intelligence from 2024
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 ...
SWOT satellite making final launch preparations
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 + SEAKR Engineering deliver 1st flight unit + payloads for the DARPA Blackjack Program
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 ...
SpaceX launches another 51 Starlinks to orbit aboard a Falcon 9
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 ...




















