Launch

Japan has put another satellite into orbit to gather intelligence for national security purposes, as reported by NHK. An H2A rocket carrying the intelligence-gathering satellite lifted off from Tanegashima Space...

Government representatives from Brazil and the United States will resume negotiations that failed 15 years ago to allow the U.S. to use Brazil’s Alcantara Launch Base for its satellites. The...

Spaceflight, a satellite rideshare and mission management provider, has partnered with Rocket Lab for three upcoming launches. The first Electron mission, scheduled for the end of 2018, will launch a...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted authorization to SES to serve the United States market using a significantly expanded O3b fleet in the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). The...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a license to Audacy that authorizes the space communications company operate the world’s first commercial inter-satellite data relay network. The data relay...

SES has announced that SES-12 has been successfully launched today onboard a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Cape Canaveral in Florida. Liftoff occurred...

Firefly Aerospace has announced the execution of a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for use of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle. Under the agreement, Firefly...

The first satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) has passed testing and is now operational. Launched last November as JPSS-1 and renamed NOAA-20 once it...

It is said that history repeats itself, but could this be true of rockets launched from high-altitude balloons (aka rocoons)? Used in the 1950s Air Force program Farside, could rockoons...

The twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites, developed and built by Airbus, are closer to continuing the climate record established by the predecessor GRACE mission of 2002–2017,...