Maxar Technologies is pushing the first WorldView Legion launch to September after encountering a test configuration anomaly, the manufacturer and Earth observation provider announced Monday.  The highly anticipated WorldView Legion constellation will provide a boost to Maxar’s Earth observations capacity The first satellite was originally set for a September 2021 launch, but has been pushed…

Gilmour Space Technologies won a contract from the Australian government to develop and launch a new sovereign surveillance satellite. The company will be developing a prototype G-class satellite for the Australian Department of Defence and launching it on its Eris rocket from an Australian launch site in 2023, Gilmour Space announced Monday. This is part…

Astra Space, Inc. will supply LeoStella with spacecraft engines under a new contract announced Tuesday. Astra is a smallsat launcher and is expanding into space technologies. The launcher acquired propulsion company Apollo Fusion last year.  Astra is expected to begin delivering the propulsion systems later this year and into 2023. The companies did not share…

Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital a contract to build 42 satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer. The contract supports the $700 million prototype contract Lockheed Martin was awarded last month to build the satellites.  The Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) is a mesh network of optically interconnected satellites for a…