SpaceX Starlink part two of ‘two-fer’ scrubbed, part one a success
STAY CONNECTEDDirect to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky. No changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps are required, providing seamless access to text, voice, and data. SpaceX is now targeting Thursday, May 9 ...
ULA’s UPDATE valve vibration and launching NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to ISS
NASA's statement regarding the scrub indicated that the two astronauts flying the CFT mission, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will remain at the Kennedy Space Center in pre-flight quarantine for this latest delay. The delay enables United Launch Alliance to ...
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange
SSC and South Korean rocket company Perigee Aerospace Inc. have signed a collaborative agreement to launch satellites jointly from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden, starting in 2025 — Perigee’s Blue Whale 1 microlauncher will be the first orbital ...
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Teledyne Space Imaging instrumentation onboard EarthCARE satellite when launched
Teledyne Space Imaging has provided the key imaging and sensor instrumentation for the EarthCARE (Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) satellite, an advanced Earth climate monitoring project scheduled to be launched into space in May of 2024 and jointly implemented ...
GA-ASI and Shift5 to bring cyber anomaly detection and predictive maintenance into MQ-9A Reaper
Photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon R. Walter III. Courtesy U.S. Air Force. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) announced its partnership with Shift5 to integrate the company’s onboard cyber anomaly detection and predictive maintenance capabilities into the MQ-9A Reaper for the United States Special ...
Redwire selected by Rocket Lab to provide antennas for the SDA’s TLT2 satellite constellation
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been contracted by Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: RKLB) to provide antennas and RF hardware for the recently announced Space Development Agency (SDA) Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta variant satellites. Tranche 2 is the second ...
AV’s Switchblade 600 selected for Tranche 1 of DoD’s Replicator initiative
AeroVironment’s (AV) Switchblade 600 loitering munition system has been selected for Tranche 1 of the first iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Replicator initiative. AV’s Switchblade 600 is a man-portable, extended-range, loitering munition system equipped with an anti-armor ...
China’s Long March-6C’s maiden flight launches 4 satellites
A Long March-6C carrier rocket carrying four satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, May 7, 2024. China's Long March-6C carrier rocket made its debut flight on Tuesday, placing four satellites in space ...
Starfish Space executes rendezvous as close as 1km. between Otter Pup and D-Orbit’s ION
Image captured by Otter Pup of ION-SCV006 on April 19th at a distance of approximately 3km. The satellites conducted multiple close approaches, passing at distances as close as 1km. Image credits: Starfish Space. (PRNewsfoto/D-Orbit SpA) Starfish Space, in collaboration with ...
ULA signs Bollinger Shipyards and Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. to create transport ship for Vulcan rockets
ULA announced that it has signed agreements with Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. in Bristol, Rhode Island, to design, oversee and build a new ship to transport Vulcan rockets from the factory in Decatur, Alabama ...
SpaceX’s successful first of a two part series as 23 Starlink smallsats soar, and launch part two includes 13 dedicated Direct to Cell
Photo captured on Wednesday, May 8, by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. Despite a few delays it was another success for SpaceX's Falcon 9 with the launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in ...
Sidus Space is a now a team member on the Intuitive Machines LTV Services contract
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) is now a teammate on the NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) contract that was awarded to the Intuitive Machines-led Moon Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration Rover (RACER) team that was announced last month. This contract represents ...
ULA’s UPDATE: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test targets new launch date
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test now is targeted to launch no earlier than 6:16 p.m. EDT Friday, May 17, to the International Space Station. Following a thorough data review completed on Tuesday, United Launch Alliance decided to remove and replace ...