Launch

Elon Musk spoke about his vision of a brighter future for humanity on Saturday evening in South Texas. Musk acknowledged that there are a lot of problems here on Earth, […]

Southwest Research Institute-led The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission entered Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The mission is […]

Eutelsat Communications revealed its ELO constellation project, targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) market. The ELO constellation aims offer global IoT coverage enabling objects to transmit data, regardless of their location. […]

U.K.-based Spacebit signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with the first mission in 2021 on the Peregrine lunar lander. Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander […]

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed his nation’s intention to join the United States’ Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA’s Artemis lunar program. The statement foresees potential Australian contributions […]

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is talking up his Starship Mk1 prototype super-rocket in Texas, less than a week in advance of an eagerly awaited update on his plans for Starship […]

Five new remote-sensing satellites were launched on a Long March-11 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert on Thursday at 2:42 p.m. Beijing Time. The […]

Rocket Lab and Virginia Space at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) completed a major construction milestone ahead of the first Electron launch from U.S. soil. The recent installation of the […]

One of the highlights at World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) last week in Paris was the much anticipated launch providers panel, as it featured multiple players from all over the […]

Virgin Galactic mated the fuselage and cabin of its next spaceship to the completed wing assembly. In addition, the two tail booms have been mated to the spaceship’s rear feather flap […]

HawkEye 360 awarded the manufacturing contract for its next generation of satellites the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS SFL). Enabled by HawkEye 360’s $70 […]

Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency (RF) reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company, received its first South American pre-order secured by Pierre Duquesne, a regional expert. Kleos closed its first pre-order with […]

Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems recently completed environmental testing for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Wide Field of View (WFOV) satellite at Boeing’s Space Environment […]

Relativity Space signed a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) to launch Momentus’ small and medium satellite customers on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket. Momentus will then deliver their customers’ small and medium […]

MDA, a Maxar company, revealed that it will design and manufacture space-based L-band navigation antennas as part of a hosted payload on the MEASAT-3d satellite, which is currently being built […]

Airbus won a design study from the U.K.’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to develop the technologies for a cluster of ultra-high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for the U.K. […]

Boeing unveiled its 702X family of software-defined satellites, highlighting a 1,900 kilogram (kg) variant for Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO). The 702X technology enables operators to adapt to changing market conditions by […]

SES selected SpaceX as a launch partner to deliver its next-generation Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation into space on board Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral. The two companies have disrupted […]

The first Spacebus Neo satellite — Konnect, a High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) ordered by Eutelsat — successfully completed its mechanical test campaign in Thales Alenia Space facilities in Cannes, according to […]

Northrop Grumman selected Seakr Engineering to provide a space signal processor on two new GEOStar satellites to launch in 2022.  This is Seakr’s second major customer utilizing the Wolverine processor, a […]

Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) announced today that it has delivered a small satellite designed for NASA to measure the microphysical properties of cloud water and ice particles. […]

Astrocast, an Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite network developer, closed $9.2 million (9 million CHF) Series A round of funding from new and existing investors. The company has raised &16.9 […]

Airbus completed the ocean satellite Copernicus Sentinel-6A, and is now sending it on its first journey. Its destination is Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the […]

Scandinavian satellite company GomSpace announced Aug. 30 that it delivered the satellite bus for UnseenLabs BRO-1, launched from New Zealand by Rocket Lab earlier this month. The launch and early operations […]

SpaceX‘s Dragon capsule has become the first U.S. spacecraft to successfully complete three trips to the International Space Station (ISS). Earlier this week, the California-based launch company safely landed its […]

Astranis, the San Francisco-based remote satellite connectivity startup, has concluded its first major launch deal as it looks to make its business plan a commercial reality and success. The company […]

Ovzon, the Swedish company looking to bring mobile broadband services via satellite, has tapped Arianespace to launch its Ovzon-3 satellite. The satellite will have a mass at liftoff of approximately 1,500 […]

The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Cartosat-3 cartography satellite, originally scheduled to launch in May 2019, will now be launched toward the end of the year in October or early November, according […]

Russian space agency Roscosmos has filed a patent for a satellite shield system that aims to protect spacecraft from colliding with dangerous objects in space. According to the patent, which was […]

The U.S. Air Force used Raytheon Company‘s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, known as GPS OCX, to support the launch of its second GPS III satellite into space. The ground […]