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Orbex has started construction of their first state-of-the-art Launch Platform, the first orbital space launchpad to be built in the UK for more than half a century. Orbex has commissioned […]
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Astra Space, Inc. (“Astra”) (Nasdaq: ASTR) plans to deploy their first satellite into orbit for NASA in January of 2022. The company’s first launch from Cape Canaveral will be conducted […]
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NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After reaching its final orbital […]
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NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1:00 a.m., EST, Thursday, December 9, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint […]
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Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time, geospatial intelligence company BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY), bringing the total number of satellites deployed by Rocket Lab to 109 […]
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for U.S. Space Force lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 5:19 a.m., EDT, on […]
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Synspective Inc. now has an agreement in place with Rocket Lab, to launch the second demonstration satellite “StriX-β” as well as the launch of two additional satellites. “StriX-β” was originally […]
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GomSpace A/S and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract for the ESA SCOUT Earth Observation mission to be launched in 2024. The contract value is 24 million […]
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Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden has resumed Swedish Space Center rocket activities after the fire that damaged the launch site in late August — just three months after the […]
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Terran Orbital Corporation (Terran Orbital) has announced the successful stationing of the EchoStar Global 3 smallsat into its final operational orbit. Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Tyvak), a subsidiary of Terran […]
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