On Wednesday, March 24, at 4:28 a.m. EDT, SpaceX launched another flight of 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (AFS) in Florida. This was the sixth launch and landing of this Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously supported launch of GPS-III Space Vehicle 03, Turksat […]
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UPDATE: They Go Up So Fast… Rocket Lab Enjoys A Six Smallsat Launch Success…
Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 19th Electron mission and deployed six spacecraft to orbit for a range of government and commercial customers. The mission, named ‘They Go Up So Fast,’ also deployed Rocket Lab’s latest in-house manufactured Photon spacecraft to build flight heritage ahead of the upcoming CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA. […]
Upcoming MilSat Symposium To Launch Into Next-Generation Space Defense — June 1 Thru 3
As space technology proliferates worldwide, the Department of Defense (DoD) has more choices regarding the rapid development and deployment of next-generation space defense technologies. At the MilSat Symposium, attendees will hear from some of the most brilliant minds that are focused on addressing the technological, logistical and financial advances needed to create the next epoch […]
Open Cosmos Milestone Reached With The Launch Of Two Smallsats
Open Cosmos has achieved a major milestone in the company’s mission to democratize space with the launch of two commercial smallsats that were entirely created at the company’s Harwell Campus-based HQ in the United Kingdom. The launch on Monday, March 22, witnessed two Open Cosmos smallsats along with the South Korean EO satellite CAS500-1 and […]
Fleet Space’s Centauri 3 Launched To Orbit
Fleet Space Technologies successfully launched their Centauri 3 smallsat on March 23, Centauri 3. The company’s fifth smallsat launched from New Zealand’s Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle “They Go Up So Fast.” The 10 kg smallsat entered its pre-planned orbit, 550 km above the Earth, on schedule, […]
Eutelsat Contracts Airbus To Build The EUTELSAT 36D Satellite
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has signed a contract with Airbus for the procurement of EUTELSAT 36D to succeed EUTELSAT 36B, expected to reach its end of life at the end of 2026, at the key 36° East orbital position. With coverage of Africa, Russia and Europe, 36° East is a key orbital slot for […]
UPDATE: Astroscale’s ELSA-d Launch Is Rescheduled
Astroscale has informed all that GK Launch Services has postponed the launch of the firm’s ELSA-d has been rescheduled to Monday, March 22, at 06:07 UTC. The company’s launch livestream will be hosted by the company’s Founder and CEO, Nobu Okada, from Tokyo and will include live coverage of the Baikonur Cosmodrome liftoff. Coverage will […]
Arianespace To Send 36 OneWeb Satellites To Orbit Via Soyuz
The next Arianespace mission is planned from Vostochny Cosmodrome with Soyuz on March 25, 2021, to deliver 36 satellites into orbit. By operating this fifth flight on behalf of OneWeb, Arianespace will bring the total fleet to 146 satellites in LEO. Flight ST30, the second commercial mission performed by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate from […]
Pixxel To Build World’s Highest Resolution Hyperspectral Satellite Array
“We are very excited to finally speak about what we are building at Pixxel. Our new funding enables us to build a health monitor for the planet through the world’s most advanced hyperspectral small-satellites… Pixxel, India’s first private Earth imaging company, said it has closed its $7.3 million seed round with new capital from Omnivore and Techstars […]
From Baikonur, 38 SmallSats Preparing For Push To Orbit By GK Launch Services
On March 20, at 9:07 a.m., Moscow Time, a launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage by GK Launch Services is scheduled from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that will deliver 38 spacecraft from 18 countries into three Sun Synchronous Orbits (SSO). CAS500-1 smallsat of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), a government-funded […]