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The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking responses to their Request for Proposal (RFP) to help build the Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL). T1TL is a mesh network of more than 100 optically interconnected satellites that provide a resilient, low-latency, ...

Rogue Space Systems Corporation and Firefly Aerospace have signed a Launch Service Agreement (LSA). The agreement confirms that Rogue has secured the entire payload mass capacity aboard a Firefly Alpha rocket, scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral in the fall ...

The SpaceX Dragon launch of the CRS-23 supply mission to the ISS. Image is courtesy of SpaceX. Update: On Sunday, August 29, 2021, at 3:14 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Dragon on the 23rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-23) ...

Blue Origin New Shepard's NS-17 rocket ignition. Blue Origin successfully completed the 17th New Shepard mission to space and back for the program and the 8th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle. Blue Origin New Shepard's NS-17 mission liftoff. This ...

Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has received an order to build another geostationary communications satellite for longtime customer SiriusXM, following the SXM-9 satellite order that was announced earlier this month. The SXM-10, a high-powered digital audio radio satellite, will be built ...

Artistic rendition of Gilmour Space's Eris rocket. Gilmour Space Technologies and Exolaunch now have a series of agreements for smallsat launch, deployment and in-space transportation services. Artistic rendition of the Exolaunch Reliant orbital transfer vehicle. Under the agreements, the companies ...

Spaceflight’s electric propulsion OTV, Sherpa-LTE1, successfully ignited thrusters on its first attempt on orbit. Credit: Spaceflight Inc. During the 36th Space Symposium, Spaceflight Inc. announced the company had achieved 100% mission success for both its primary and secondary missions for ...

The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, successfully passed a major milestone, completing its Block 0 Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicle Critical Design Review (CDR) on August 20, 2021.  This CDR milestone, the culmination ...

Article by Lesley Conn, senior manager of Research and Analysis at Space Foundation Introduction This edition, a special publication for the 36th Annual Space Symposium, examines where we are as a global space industry and considers the steps still to ...

Virgin Orbit, through its parent company Vieco USA, Inc. (“Virgin Orbit” or the “Company”) and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (“NextGen”) (NASDAQ: NGCA), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), have announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement (the “Merger ...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has invented a new type of satellite dish technology with a wide range of use on satellites and ground terminals, including space-based 5G. The Wide Angle ESA Fed Reflector (WAEFR) antenna is a hybrid of a ...

Rocket Lab will initiate final mission design and manufacture to supply two, interplanetary, Photon spacecraft for a science mission to Mars, delivering Decadal-class science at a fraction of the cost of typical planetary missions. Artistic rendition of two Photon spacecraft ...

Performed by Arianespace on Sunday, August 22, 2021, at precisely 3:13 a.m. local time at Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome (10:13 p.m. UTC on August 21), Soyuz Flight ST34 lifted-off, with 34 OneWeb satellites onboard. After the successful deployment if the smallsats, ...

Vector Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: VACQ) (“Vector”), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by leading technology investor Vector Capital, has announced that Vector’s shareholders voted to approve the company's proposed merger with Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (“Rocket Lab” ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard’s next mission will fly a NASA lunar landing technology demonstration a second time on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, 11 of which are NASA-supported, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule.  Liftoff is currently targeted ...

Spaceflight is currently managing three consecutive dedicated Rocket Lab launches for its customer BlackSky, a leading technology platform providing real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring. The back-to-back-to-back launches will each carry two BlackSky smallsats to LEO. Spaceflight’s RL-8, coined “Love ...

Rocket Lab will launch a satellite to test space junk removal technologies for Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company dedicated to the sustainable use of space. Lifting-off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula as part of a ...

On Monday, August 16, 2021, at 10:47 p.m. local time (01:47 am (UTC) on Thursday, August 17), a Vega launch vehicle operated by Arianespace lifted off successfully from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana (South America). This mission marked Arianespace’s 7th ...

Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. has launched Slingshot Beacon which, according to the company, is the industry’s first collision avoidance collaboration and communications platform for space — Slingshot Beacon will be piloted by OneWeb, Spire Global Inc., Orbit Fab and others.  The ...

Airbus has announced that Sydney, Australia-based, ground-control infrastructure specialist UGL will become the latest local partner to join the Airbus teaming arrangement in its bid to deliver next-generation military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) capability to Australia under the JP9102 program. The ...