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In 1955, the Soviet government made public its plans to launch the first ever satellite to take photos of the Earth’s surface from space. Two years later on Oct. 4,...

World View, which plans to offer services such as Earth Observation (EO) from the stratosphere using high altitude balloons, has successfully completed its first Stratollite launch from its Tuscon, Arizona...

Arianespace successfully completed a mission on Sept. 29 that delivered two satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO): Intelsat 37e for operator Intelsat and BSAT 4a for Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System...

Elon Musk has been very vocal about his ambitions to conduct human spaceflight missions to Mars. To achieve the cost savings necessary to turn his plans into a reality, SpaceX...

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Thales Alenia Space and Arianespace have signed a launch contract for two Cosmo-SkyMed Second-Generation (CSG) satellites manufactured for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian Ministry of Defense. The...

Rocket Lab announced it will fly payloads for Planet and Spire aboard its upcoming second test flight, dubbed “Still Testing,” from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand....

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully orbited a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Saturday, Sept. 23 from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. According to NRO, the mission,...

Arianespace has set a new launch date for the Intelsat 37e and BSAT 4a satellites after an anomaly scrubbed the first launch attempt back on Sept 5. Arianespace will now...

Northrop Grumman announced on Sept. 18 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the assumption of $1.4 billion in...