Launch

Nanoracks signed an agreement with Canada’s Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-using spent C4M upper rocket vehicle stages, which would be in-orbit after launch missions from Nova...

Blue Origin revealed a national team to offer a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Blue Origin signed teaming agreements...

Addvalue Innovation delivered the first flight model of the company’s Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) terminal to Capella Space. Addvalue’s IDRS system, developed in tandem with Inmarsat, aims to provides...

Kleos Space is getting ready for a very busy year. The space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company announced today that its Kleos Scouting Mission will launch on a PSLV...

Solar Orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship mission to study the Sun has completed all tests and is set to be flown to Cape Canaveral ready for its launch...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave Swarm Technologies approval to launch 150 satellites. According to the FCC document, Swarm will be able to “construct, deploy, and operate a constellation of 150...

NASA and Boeing initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages to support the third through the twelfth...

Rocket Lab successfully launched its ninth Electron mission, deploying a single spacecraft to orbit for satellite manufacturer Astro Digital. The mission, named “As The Crow Flies,” lifted off from Rocket...

Unstable operators’ business cases together with advances in digital technology impel satellite manufacturers to provide software-defined solutions that would be cheaper and more flexible than traditional satellites. In the next...

With the proliferation of satellites going to orbit of late, I’m often asked what lies ahead with respect to the issue of debris in space. By many accounts, thousands of...