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UPDATE 2 Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 18th Electron mission, ‘Another One Leaves The Crust,’ on 20:26 NZDT / 07:26 UTC on January 20, 2021. The launch was procured […]
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On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 8:02 a.m. EST, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, completing the seventeenth Starlink mission. […]
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Redwire has acquired Oakman Aerospace, Inc. (OAI), a provider of products and services related to digital engineering, spacecraft and satellite design and development, mission payload development, and data distribution services. […]
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Satellogic has announced a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with SpaceX — through this agreement, SpaceX becomes Satellogic’s preferred vendor for rideshare missions. The first launch, scheduled for June 2021, […]
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Aurora Insight is scheduled to launch its second, satellite-based. radio frequency spectrum sensor on SpaceX’s Transporter-1, on Friday, January 22nd from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch is a part of […]
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The space industry seeks new solutions to ensure economic and environmental space sustainability with the rise of satellite mega-constellations. A solution lies in the use of on-orbit propulsion, but traditional […]
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Virgin Orbit‘s LauncherOne rocket reached space during the company’s second launch demonstration on January 17, 2021, successfully deploying 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP). Virgin Orbit’s launch system […]
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Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th mission to space and back on January 14, 2021, for the New Shepard program. Mission NS-14 featured a crew capsule outfitted with astronaut experience […]
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Exotrail reports the full success of the first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect electric propulsion technology. Through an In-Orbit Demonstration mission launched to LEO on November 7, 2020, onboard a […]
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L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has successfully completed a technology demonstration, under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract, for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system to improve communications with the agency’s […]
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