Launch

Japanese satellite operator Sky Perfect JSAT signed a launch service contract with SpaceX to launch its Superbird-9 satellite on the Starship rocket. This is the first public announcement of a...

Virgin Orbit has moved a step closer to launching from South Korea. J-Space, the South Korean investment group, signed a deal with Virgin Orbit which will see the two companies...

SpaceX launch capacity for its dedicated smallsat rideshare missions on the Falcon 9 is full through 2023 and “pretty full” in 2024 as the missions are in high demand, Jarrod...

Viasat reported a small increase in overall revenues, but a net loss for the company’s first quarter 2023 results, released Aug. 8. Revenues for the three months was $678 million,...

Northrop Grumman has teamed up with Firefly Aerospace to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new medium-lift launch vehicle to serve commercial, civil, and national...

This episode of On Orbit is being released on a big news day for U.S. space rideshare provider, Spaceflight Inc. Spaceflight has shipped its brand new fully integrated Sherpa-LTC orbital...

Astra Space is ending use of its Rocket 3.3 iteration after two launch failures and moving to the next version of its launch system.  The rocket, part of Space Launch...

The U.S. Space Force on Aug. 4 launched the sixth Lockheed Martin Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO)-6 satellite, the final planned SBIRS missile warning satellite, from Cape Canaveral...

Rocket Lab successfully launched the second of two back-to-back national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on an Electron rocket that took off early Thursday morning from Pad...

Inmarsat has confirmed that its I-6 F1 satellite has reached Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and begun on-orbit testing. The satellite, the size of a London double-decker bus, with a solar array...