ULA launch is imminent as first crewed Boeing Starliner mission readies for ISS
ULA's L-2 report states that everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the first crewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The mission is planned to lift off on Monday, May 6 from ...
SpaceX launches Maxar’s WorldView mission from California, and another SpaceX Starlink to launch from Florida hours later
Photo captured by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. On Thursday, May 2 at 11:36 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the Maxar 1 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The ...
SDA awards an eight satellites build for the FOO Fighter program
Artistic rendition is courtesy of Millennium Space Systems. The Space Development Agency (SDA) has issued an award using Other Transaction Authority (OTA) with a total potential value of approximately $414 million to build eight satellites, for launch in first quarter fiscal ...
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HyImpulse launches their 1st commercially viable launch vehicle
Photo of the SR75 test launch is courtesy of HyImpulse. HyImpulse, a German manufacturer and system provider of commercial launch vehicles for satellite transport, successfully test-launched their 12 meter long and 2.5 ton single-stage rocket "SR75" that can transport smallsats ...
NASA tech grants to advance Moon to Mars space exploration
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role in the agency’s return to the Moon under Artemis, as well as future missions to Mars. Twenty-four projects ...
ATLAS Space Operations to support Blue Origin’s Blue Ring DarkSky-1 mission
Blue Origin has selected ATLAS Space Operations to provide ground segment support for their upcoming Blue Ring mission, DarkSky-1. Announced in October of 2023, Blue Ring provides end-to-end services that span hosting, transportation, refueling, data relay, and logistics in MEO, GEO, ...
SpaceX’s second launch same day Starlink smallsat from Florida after Maxar’s WorldView from California
Photo captured by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. SpaceX's Falcon 9 successfully launched 23 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This is the 19th flight for the ...
Millennium Space Systems selects L3Harris to build the SDA’s electro-optical infrared payloads
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received a contract from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, to build eight infrared payloads for the SDA’s Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program. The FOO Fighter satellite system will test new technologies that could aid ...
ULA’s day L-4 update as first crewed Boeing Starliner ready to carry astronauts to ISS
An Atlas V N22 rocket will launch Boeing's Starliner on CFT. Photo by United Launch Alliance Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the first crewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The ...
BAE Systems to build atmospheric composition instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO constellation
ACX is the second instrument BAE Systems has been contracted to develop for theGeoXO mission to support environmental monitoring BAE Systems has been selected by NASA to develop the Atmospheric Composition instrument (ACX) that will fly on NOAA's Geostationary Extended ...
Exolaunch deploys NASA’s ACS3 Satellite
This marks the first-ever satellite Exolaunch has deployed for NASA,which launched via Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle on April 23, 2024. Artistic rendition of NASA's ACS3 solar sail spacecraft on-orbit. Image is courtesy of NASA. Exolaunch provided the deployment services for ...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink smallsats from Florida just hours after Maxar’s WorldView mission takes off from California
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, May 2 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink small satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 10:23 p.m. ET, ...
SSC’s OPIR Polar Program completes space vehicle CDR
Artistic rendition of the NGP space vehicle — image is courtesy of Northrop Grumman Space Systems Command (SSC) successfully passed a major milestone, completing the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Polar (NGP) Space Vehicle Critical Design Review (CDR) on ...