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Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. (Voyager) has completed the acquisition of The Launch Company — Voyager announced the company’s intent to acquire The Launch Company in November of 2020 and, with this […]
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OHB Sweden AB, subsidiary of space and technology group OHB SE, has signed a contract for a dedicated launch with Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) for an upcoming mission that […]
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GRUS-1B, 1C, 1D, 1E are 100 kg smallsats built for optical EO and constitute Axelspace’s “AxelGlobe” platform were successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on March 22, 2021 at 15:07 JST (06:07 UTC). The company is currently conducting commissioning procedures to […]
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China has delivered their new EO satellite to orbit following a launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday (Beijing Time), March 31, […]
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Gilmour Space Technologies and Fleet Space Technologies are joining forces to launch smallsats to orbit. Fleet Space launched Australia’s first commercial smallsats in 2018 and its fifth just last week […]
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Applications are now open for the ESA’s 2021 astronaut selection and qualified candidates of all genders are encouraged to apply. As well as recruiting new members to the agency’s astronaut […]
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Dubai Municipality has successfully launched and deployed their DMSat-1, an atmospheric monitoring smallsat built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL). DMSat-1 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz […]
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Redwire (or “the Company”) and Genesis Park Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: GNPK) (“Genesis Park”) have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will result in Redwire becoming a publicly traded company. […]
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has had to revise their launch schedule of GISAT-1, a geo-imaging satellite, that was to travel to orbit via a GSLV-F10 rocket — according […]
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BlackSky, who recently announced a planned business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SFTW), has secured five Rocket Lab missions to deploy nine satellites between March and the end […]
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