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Momentus will become a publicly traded company through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Stable Road Acquisition Corp. In a Wednesday announcement, Momentus said the combined company will be valued at approximately $1.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in early 2021 and the company will be listed on Nasdaq as “MNTS.” ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a new, 17,000 square-foot large solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet Rocketdyne said in a Tuesday release that the large solid rocket motors produced at the new Engineering, Manufacturing Development (EMD) facility will be used for national security programs, including strategic deterrence, hypersonics and missile defense.  Construction began...

SpaceX launched a batch of 60 Starlink satellites early Tuesday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites took off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:20 a.m. EDT. The mission took place on Tuesday morning after being scrubbed multiple times due to weather and a ground sensor issue. ...

GHGSat revealed Tuesday that ABB will deliver the payloads for GHGSat’s next three methane detecting satellites. This is part of GHGSat’s plan to have a constellation of 10 spacecraft in orbit by the end of 2022. The company has been ramping up funding, as GHGSat secured $30 million in Series B funding last month. GHGSat...

Northrop Grumman revealed Monday that the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, also know as the S.S. Kaplana Chawala, will remain docked to the International Space Station (ISS) for approximately three months. The spacecraft was successfully captured by Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA using the ISS’ robotic Canadarm2 at 5:32 a.m. EDT on Monday after its launch on...

Swissto12 revealed Wednesday that it has delivered a large batch of waveguide signal interconnects to Thales Alenia Space for the Eutelsat KONNECT Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) program. Swissto12 has worked on the design, manufacture, and testing of these products with Thales Alenia Space over the last year. This is the first large scale delivery Swissto12...

Alaska Aerospace Corporation revealed on Tuesday the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) with India-based AgniKul Cosmos. The MOU is for the test launch of the Agnibaan launch vehicle from the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA) on Kodiak Island in the U.S. Additional tests and operational launches are also possible under the agreement. Under...

Swarm Technologies on Tuesday revealed details and pricing of its hardware and network services. More than 200 companies have already signed up for early access to join the Swarm network when it begins commercial services later this year. Earlier in September, Swarm’s latest 12 satellites were launched by Arianespace. Swarm’s satellite modem, the Swarm Tile,...

Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) has reached an agreement with the Andøya Space in Norway for a launch site for the maiden launch of its RFA ONE rocket. RFA announced in a Monday release that it plans to start delivering end-to-end launch services for small satellites in 2022.  Andøya Space is developing the new launch...

Kongsberg revealed Monday that its signal processing equipment will be integrated in the Thuraya 4-NGS satellite. Kongsberg will also be manufacturing and testing electronics, as part of the agreement. Thuraya 4-NGS is a new mobile communication satellite being built by Airbus Defence and Space. In August, Yahsat chose Airbus as the manufacturer. The satellite aims to...