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NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace, Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide launch services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) QuickSounder mission. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class […]
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On Monday, September 23 at 7:30 PM – 8:52 PM PDT China Rocket Co. Ltd. will launch unknown cargo on Smart Dragon 3 from Haiyang Spaceport which has witnessed the […]
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Despite a very foggy launch area, on Friday, September 20 at 6:50 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 20 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit […]
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The L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard NOAA’s newest weather satellite captured its first image since launching into space in late June, representing a significant milestone prior to […]
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On Tuesday, September 17 at 6:50 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the European Commission’s Galileo L13 mission to orbit from to medium Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) […]
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NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary […]
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Another batch of 21 Starlink v2-mini satellites including 13 Direct to Cell will launch to low Earth orbit on Wednesday, September 18th, at 7:20 AM – 9:29 AM PDT from […]
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After nearly five days on orbit, Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely splashed down at 3:36 a.m. ET on Sunday, September 15 off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, […]
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SpaceX has delayed the Starlink satellite launch of 21 small satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation originally scheduled for today, Patriots’ Day, September 11, to Thursday evening, September 12, at 6:45 […]
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PlanetiQ received a Delivery Order (DO-4) contract valued at more than $6.5 million to supply NOAA with their proprietary radio occultation (RO) data for a period of one year starting […]
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