Launch

Bentley Walker has launched a live Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) satellite service leveraging iDirect’s iQ Desktop and iDX 4.0 software. Bentley Walker will deploy the new service in...

SpaceX successfully delivered 10 additional Iridium Next satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) approximately one hour after its Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) scrubbed its third attempt to launch a spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) early Saturday morning after weather troubles delayed the first two scheduled...

Pakistan has publicly announced its plans to launch the country’s first ever optical remote sensing satellite, PRSS 1. On Oct. 5, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco)...

In 1955, the Soviet government made public its plans to launch the first ever satellite to take photos of the Earth’s surface from space. Two years later on Oct. 4,...

The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has awarded Spaceflight its first contract for launch and integration services. The multi-year contract covers launch services in 2018 for a maximum of 24...

World View, which plans to offer services such as Earth Observation (EO) from the stratosphere using high altitude balloons, has successfully completed its first Stratollite launch from its Tuscon, Arizona...

Arianespace successfully completed a mission on Sept. 29 that delivered two satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO): Intelsat 37e for operator Intelsat and BSAT 4a for Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System...

Thales Alenia Space and Arianespace have signed a launch contract for two Cosmo-SkyMed Second-Generation (CSG) satellites manufactured for the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian Ministry of Defense. The...

Philippine Airlines has tasked SITAOnAir to upgrade the airline’s existing Boeing B777 fleet equipped with Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband to Inmarsat’s GX Aviation, as well as line-fit Philippine Airlines’ new Airbus A350s...