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[Via Satellite 01-15-2016] NASA revealed Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and SpaceX as the winners of the long-awaited Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS 2) contract on Jan. 14. With...

[Via Satellite 01-15-2016] International Launch Services (ILS) is scheduled to launch the Eutelsat 9B satellite on Jan. 28 aboard a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Built by Airbus Defence...

[Via Satellite 01-14-2016] The Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded SpaceX and Orbital ATK with the first two Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) for shared...

[Via Satellite 01-13-2016] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MH) hopes the successful launch of Telesat’s Telstar 12 Vantage satellite on the H-2A rocket will be the precursor to more international business. Ko...

[Via Satellite 01-05-2016] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to build its heaviest rocket to carry satellites weighing 10 tons into space. Currently, the space agency’s Geosynchronous Satellite...

Small satellites, or SmallSats, have typically been relegated to a secondary position when it comes to launching. But now that SmallSats have grown so numerous, they are changing the launch...

[Via Satellite 12-31-2015] European Space Propulsion (ESP), a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, successfully completed testing of a five-kilowatt Hall Thruster with a Power Processing Unit (PPU) supplied by Thales...

[Via Satellite 12-31-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has contracted Orbital ATK to provide large-size composite structures to be used for the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 vehicles in support of...

[Via Satellite 12-30-2015] China has launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen 4, as part of the country’s High-Definition (HD) Earth observation project, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua....

[Via Satellite 12-24-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced Dec. 23 that the company had ordered additional RD-180 engines for Atlas 5 missions to serve existing and potential civil and commercial...