Launch

On Orbit is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Via Satellite Executive Editor and SATELLITE Chair Jeffrey Hill, focusing on the socioeconomic value and problem-solving power of commercial space technologies. At […]

On Thursday night, SpaceX launched a batch of 60 internet communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. More than one hour later, some 270 miles above Earth, […]

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) successfully launched its RISAT-2B Earth Observation (EO) satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) on Wednesday. PSLV-C46 lifted-off at 5:30 IST from the First Launch […]

Maxar Technologies was selected by NASA to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element spacecraft. Blue Origin and Draper will join the Maxar-led […]

China attempted to launch a top-secret military payload into space early Thursday morning, but the attempt ended in a rain of wreckage. The loss of the Long March 4C rocket […]

Viasat was awarded a contract by the Administrator of the Space Enterprise Consortium, under the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI program, to deliver and test the first-ever […]

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite has arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL to complete launch preparations in anticipation of […]

China launched a new satellite for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 11:48 p.m. local time Friday. The satellite was launched on a Long […]

SpaceX delayed the launch of 60 satellites as part of its ambitious Starlink internet project for the second time in a week, saying that the launch will now take place […]

Earth to Sky (ETS) signed a definitive launch services agreement with Delta Satellite Solutions (DSS), a provider of payload and satellite integration services for academic institutions. The launch will occur in […]

Chinese private rocket company LandSpace successfully tested an 80-ton thrust liquid oxygen-methane engine, according to its developer Friday. The engine, named TQ-12, was independently developed by LandSpace and has the […]

1045pm ET Update: About 15 minutes before the Falcon 9 rocket was due to liftoff on Wednesday evening from Florida, the launch was scrubbed. The culprit? Unfavorable upper-level winds. Fortunately, […]

The space system of military communications Blagovest will be completed in mid-July when the fourth satellite is launched, a source in the space rocket industry told TASS on Tuesday. “The […]

Via Satellite has launched the first three episodes of On Orbit, a new bi-weekly space technology podcast that asks listeners, “What’s your business in space?” Hosted by Via Satellite Executive Editor and […]

Relativity signed a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with Spaceflight. Under the LSA, Spaceflight will manifest missions to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket, the world’s first and only […]

Eutelsat revealed that a crucial stage has been completed in the production of its EUTELSAT 7C high-power broadcast satellite, serving markets across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Turkey. As […]

Blue Origin CEO and founder Jeff Bezos announced the company’s new lunar lander, “Blue Moon,” in a dramatic end to SATELLITE week in Washington, D.C. this week. Blue Origin’s Blue Moon […]

Cloud Constellation selected LeoStella to manufacture the SpaceBelt satellite constellation. Cloud Constellation’s SpaceBelt Data Security as a Service (DSaaS) aims to secure, global managed network services and cloud data storage in […]

NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and […]

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved SpaceX’s request to fly more than 1,500 of its Starlink satellites at an altitude of approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) — an orbit […]

Lockheed Martin completed its AEHF-4 spacecraft on-orbit test and available for Satellite Control Availability (SCA). The AEHF-4 on-orbit test (A4 OOT) successfully activated the payload, built by its subcontractor, Northrop Grumman, […]

Following the successful completion of payload and bus integration, Boeing will begin antenna range testing and core testing of Kacific‘s Kacific1 satellite. Kacific’s first satellite is a High Throughput Satellite […]

Relativity, partnered with mu Space, a Thai satellite and space technology company, to launch a satellite to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket, the world’s first 3D printed […]

Canadian rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications entered into a contract with Hughes Network Systems, agreeing to a lifetime capacity agreement on the next-generation JUPITER3 Ultra High Density Satellite (UHDS), designated EchoStar XXIV. […]

Intelsat revealed that the anomaly previously disclosed on April 10 has resulted in the total loss of the Intelsat 29e spacecraft. A failure review board has been convened with the […]

Nepal Thursday successfully launched its first satellite into space from the US to gather detailed geographical information of the Himalayan nation, evoking unbridled excitement among the people and scientists. Developed […]

Northrop Grumman successfully launched its Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft yesterday at 4:46 p.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. […]

Kepler Communications, a Canadian satellite telecommunications provider, and Magellan Aerospace have signed a letter of intention to fly an Smart Radiator Device (SRD) on Kepler’s third satellite, scheduled for launch later […]

Alta Devices‘ gallium arsenide solar cells are powering 60 small satellites, called ThinSats. These small satellites will launch on the NG-11 mission from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the […]

The Arabsat-6A satellite is on its way to its intended orbit at 30.5 degrees East after its successful launch on SpaceX‘s Falcon Heavy rocket, the Saudi operator confirmed. Built by […]