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Momentus will become a publicly traded company through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Stable Road Acquisition Corp. In a Wednesday announcement, Momentus said the combined company will […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a new, 17,000 square-foot large solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet Rocketdyne said in a Tuesday release that the large solid rocket motors […]

SpaceX launched a batch of 60 Starlink satellites early Tuesday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites took off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in […]

GHGSat revealed Tuesday that ABB will deliver the payloads for GHGSat’s next three methane detecting satellites. This is part of GHGSat’s plan to have a constellation of 10 spacecraft in […]

Northrop Grumman revealed Monday that the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, also know as the S.S. Kaplana Chawala, will remain docked to the International Space Station (ISS) for approximately three months. The […]

Swissto12 revealed Wednesday that it has delivered a large batch of waveguide signal interconnects to Thales Alenia Space for the Eutelsat KONNECT Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) program. Swissto12 has worked […]

Alaska Aerospace Corporation revealed on Tuesday the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) with India-based AgniKul Cosmos. The MOU is for the test launch of the Agnibaan launch vehicle from […]

Swarm Technologies on Tuesday revealed details and pricing of its hardware and network services. More than 200 companies have already signed up for early access to join the Swarm network […]

Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) has reached an agreement with the Andøya Space in Norway for a launch site for the maiden launch of its RFA ONE rocket. RFA announced […]

Kongsberg revealed Monday that its signal processing equipment will be integrated in the Thuraya 4-NGS satellite. Kongsberg will also be manufacturing and testing electronics, as part of the agreement. Thuraya […]

Australian launch company Southern Launch recently completed two back-to-back suborbital launches, marking Australia’s first commercial launches, a milestone that brings Australia closer to having access to space. On Sept. 19, […]

A Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifted three Russian communications satellites and 19 secondary payloads to orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region at 7:20 a.m. EDT […]

The U.S. Space Force has reached a contract with SpaceX to reuse Falcon 9 boosters for upcoming Global Positioning System (GPS)-III launches, a first of its kind for National Security […]

Eutelsat Communications revealed on Thursday that it has formed a long-term agreement with Ovzon AB for the provision of satellite control services. Under the agreement, Eutelsat will control Ovzon-3 over […]

Momentus signed two new launch service agreements with Pixxel and GP Advanced Projects. Momentus will deliver Pixxel’s second smallsat to Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) orbit in December 2021 onboard a SpaceX […]

OneWeb is set to resume launches with Arianespace in December to build out its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite internet constellation. The satellite operator announced Monday that Arianespace will provide 16 […]

Rocket Lab has completed its final dress rehearsal from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia. The smallsat launcher is now ready for its […]

Intelsat has selected Maxar Technologies to build the final satellite for its C-band transition, and has contracted with SpaceX and Arianespace to launch its new C-band satellites. The Thursday announcement […]

The Scouting Mission for Luxembourg-based data-as-a-service company Kleos Space is set to launch on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C49 Mission, targeted for early November. The PSLV-C49 Mission will […]

Astra made its first orbital launch attempt on Sept. 12, and Rocket 3.1 failed to make it to orbit. Astra said it appears that that early in the flight, the […]

The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin are working on a smallsat mission called Janus to capture the first-ever closeup look at binary asteroids. In 2022, the Janus team […]

Satellite in-space transportation provider Momentus and LunaSonde on Thursday revealed a launch service agreement to fly a demo cubesat (Gossamer) to Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) in Q1 2021, with further […]

Jordan Noone, who co-founded Relativity Space with Tim Ellis, is transitioning from CTO to executive advisor in preparation for starting his next venture. Noone emailed Relaltivy Space employees on Tuesday […]

Gilmour Space Technologies revealed on Wednesday that it has secured Space Machines Company as a customer for its maiden Eris rocket launch in 2022. The company has closed two commercial […]

Construction of the Indonesian telecommunications satellite project called the Satellite of Republic of Indonesia (SATRIA) is set to start this month, PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) announced. Thales Alenia Space […]

Exolaunch has signed a launch agreement with German university Technische Universität Berlin for the SALSAT nanosatellite. Exolaunch is providing launch, mission management, and integration services for the Technische Universität Berlin […]

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites on Thursday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink sats from Launch Complex 39A at 8:46 a.m. EST, deploying the satellites about […]

Rocket Lab revealed Thursday that it launched its first satellite in its family of configurable Photon satellites on the recent “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical” launch on Aug. 30. […]

An Arianespace Vega rocket lifted 53 satellites to orbit Wednesday evening, marking the first occasion of the launcher’s new service to address the small satellite market. The Vega rocket took […]

Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace successfully completed a phased array transmit test for a Multi-Band, Multi-Mission (MBMM) antenna. This is a milestone for the U.S. Space Force’s MBMM program, as […]