UPDATE Boeing, ULA and NASA team up for Starliner’s “closeout processes and flight rationale” to launch astronauts on May 25
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad illuminated by spotlights at Space Launch Complex 41 on Sunday, May 5, 2024. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky New information in the process ...
HyImpulse launches the SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range
Photo of the SR75 rocket launch, courtesy of the companies. HyImpulse successfully launched their SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range, Australia, in a milestone achievement for commercial launch capabilities in Australia. The SR75 rocket is one of the ...
Terran Orbital awarded subcontract from Lockheed Martin for SDA’s T2TL
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has been selected by Lockheed Martin to produce 18 satellite buses for that firm's recent Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 2 (T2) Tracking Layer contract. Lockheed Martin will provide the SDA with 16 wide field-of-view ...
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Collins Aerospace delivers 1st TruNet™ AR-1500 networked comms airborne radio to Europe
Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, recently delivered the first networked communications airborne radio to a European nation. The Polish Ministry of Defense will equip their C-130H Hercules fleet with Collins’ TruNet™ AR-1500 new software-defined radio. TruNet™ AR-1500 is ...
Boeing Donates $200,000 to support flod recovery + relief Efforts in Brazil
Boeing [NYSE: BA] is committing $200,000 from the Boeing Charitable Trust to assist with recovery and relief efforts following the recent flooding in Brazil — these funds will support the BrazilFoundation’s Rio Grande do Sul Humanitarian Campaign to provide immediate ...
SpaceX’s Friday launch sends Starlink smallsats soaring and a breaks a record of 21 recoveries of this Falcon 9’s booster
Photo captured on Friday, May 17, by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. Success on Friday, May 17 at 8:32 p.m. ET, as Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral ...
Boeing’s update regarding delay of ULA’s launch of NASA’s Starliner
Starliner docks to the ISS for the first time on OFT-2. (NASA photo) Following is a report from Boeing:NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) teams continue working remaining open tasks in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test ...
SpaceX’s Friday Cape Starlink smallsat launch weather permitting
SpaceX's Falcon 9 will launch a batch of Starlink communications satellites on Friday May 17 from Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral from 4:52 - 9:01 PM PDT. Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for ...
Scout Space selected by AFWERX to develop collision analysis framework and advance space safety
SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESSKnowledge is power in the increasingly contested space domain. Scout provides Plug & Play hosted payloads and algorithms to make any spacecraft an SDA platform. Scout Space Inc. an in-space observation service provider focused on space security and ...
SES’s Ethiosat delivers to 95% of TV homes in Ethiopia
SES, a content connectivity solutions provider, announced that its Ethiosat platform at the 57 degrees East orbital position now delivers content to 17 million TV households in Ethiopia, an increase of 7 million compared to 2022, with its reach penetration ...
NASA + ESA unite for work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have signed an agreement to expand NASA’s work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, an ESA-led mission that is scheduled to launch in 2028 that will search for signs of ancient life on the ...
GA-ASI + USMC complete MQ-9A WTI training with SkyTower I pod
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) teamed up to conduct flight training on the operation of the MQ-9A Block 5 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) ...
Aitech provides critical comms to Sidus Space for LizzieSat™’s C&DH flight computers
Screenshot Aitech Systems has successfully provided a complete system of command and data handling (C&DH) flight computers and peripherals to Sidus Space for the LizzieSat™ satellite that successfully launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission on March 4th. This space-rated system ...