Launch

Virgin Orbit laid off about 85% of its workforce, approximately 675 employees, after it was unable to secure funding.  The smallsat launcher disclosed the layoffs in filings to the Securities...

Isar Aerospace, one of the new launch companies out of Europe, has secured another $165 million in financing, as it gets ready for its first launch later this year. The...

Blue Origin reports that an engine nozzle issue led to the New Shepard rocket explosion during a test flight in September 2022. The New Shepard is the suborbital rocket that...

OneWeb’s full first generation constellation has now been launched after a weekend mission from India, clearing the way for global service.  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NewSpace India...

Rocket Lab set a new record for turnaround time between missions after it launched two Electron missions seven days apart from two different hemispheres.  Rocket Lab completed a successful mission...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has completed the launch of a new mission to research space weather. The company announced on March 23 that it launched a sounding rocket BROR was...

Virgin Orbit, which paused operations last week to conserve capital, plans to incrementally resume operations on Thursday to prepare for the next mission as the company continues funding talks.  Virgin...

SES’s SES-18 and SES-19 satellites have been successfully launched in what it is set to be a busy year of launches for the operator. The satellites, designed and built by...

The surge in demand for smallsat launch raises a number of questions: What’s driving the growth? How do industries that want to get into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) find the right...

SpaceX launched an additional batch of 40 satellites for OneWeb on Thursday, increasing OneWeb’s constellation to 582 satellites. OneWeb is a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity provider and competitor to SpaceX’s...