Launch

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) was selected by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to support a combined initiative between the U.S. Department of the Navy and the U.K. Ministry of […]

Astrocast and D-Orbit signed an agreement for the launch and deployment of ten Astrocast nanosatellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), through D-Orbit ‘s InOrbit Now Launch Service. The agreement calls […]

Eutelsat Communications is currently investigating an incident on one of the two solar arrays on its Eutelsat 5 West B satellite. The company is working to assess the potential impact […]

Nanoracks signed an agreement with Canada’s Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-using spent C4M upper rocket vehicle stages, which would be in-orbit after launch missions from Nova […]

Blue Origin revealed a national team to offer a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Blue Origin signed teaming agreements […]

Addvalue Innovation delivered the first flight model of the company’s Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) terminal to Capella Space. Addvalue’s IDRS system, developed in tandem with Inmarsat, aims to provides […]

Kleos Space is getting ready for a very busy year. The space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company announced today that its Kleos Scouting Mission will launch on a PSLV […]

Solar Orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship mission to study the Sun has completed all tests and is set to be flown to Cape Canaveral ready for its launch […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave Swarm Technologies approval to launch 150 satellites. According to the FCC document, Swarm will be able to “construct, deploy, and operate a constellation of 150 […]

NASA and Boeing initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages to support the third through the twelfth […]

Rocket Lab successfully launched its ninth Electron mission, deploying a single spacecraft to orbit for satellite manufacturer Astro Digital. The mission, named “As The Crow Flies,” lifted off from Rocket […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reportedly filed paperwork with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on behalf of U.S. launch company SpaceX for the operation of 30,000 additional SpaceX Starlink […]

Dymon signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to send the first Japanese lunar rover onboard the Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021. Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander will be […]

Firefly Black, the national security and civil space subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, was selected by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Small Launch and Targets Division as […]

The U.S. Air Force‘s Next Generation OPIR Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting (GEO) satellite program, commonly referred to as NGG, achieved another milestone by completing its system/ground and space vehicle Preliminary Design […]

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) today revealed its role in supporting MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Agile MicroSatellite (AMS) mission. BCT will design, manufacture, and operate a 6U CubeSat the mission, which aims […]

Northrop Grumman and its wholly-owned SpaceLogistics subsidiary sent the industry’s first on-orbit servicing satellite life-extension spacecraft, the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), into Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (SSTO) on an International Launch […]

International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched Eutelsat Communications’ EUTELSAT 5 West B into super-synchronous transfer orbit using a Proton Breeze M rocket. The vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome […]

Astroscale entered the Assembly, Integration, and Test (AIT) phase of its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission, following completion of design reviews and subsystem testing. ELSA-d, the world’s first commercial […]

Last week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave a presentation revealing the Starship test rocket, and discussed future plans of an orbital-flight launch targeted for 2020. Although there has been much […]

EOS Data Analytics (EOS), a space portfolio company of Noosphere Ventures, unveiled EOS SAR — a project to develop its own Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors intended for deployment in […]

Kepler Communications signed a launch agreement with Innovative Space Logistics (ISL) working with GK Launch Services to deploy two satellites into sun-synchronous orbit in Second Quarter (Q2) to Third Quarter […]

The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA […]

Virgin Galactic revealed a new contract with the Italian Air Force for a research flight on the company’s SpaceShipTwo system during which Italian researchers will actively conduct experiments while they […]

Houston-based Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its lunar lander, Nova-C, to the Moon in 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA awarded Intuitive Machines the first mission task order […]

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), awarded a sole source, five-year, $1.18 billion Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) modification of the Delta IV Heavy […]

Rocket Lab revealed that Astro Digital is the customer for Rocket Lab’s ninth Electron mission, and fifth mission of 2019. The dedicated mission is scheduled to take place during a […]

The detailed definition of the design of Europe’s new Ariane 6 launcher was validated at the closing meeting of the Critical Design Review (CDR) held in Paris on September 25, […]

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is a rather unique launch vehicle. It’s a rocket that deploys, or drops, from a customized Boeing 747 — a “Flying Launchpad,” so-to-speak. One of those aircraft, […]

Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument integration and […]