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Rocket Report: ULA is losing engineers; SpaceX is launching every two days
Welcome to Edition 7.07 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX has not missed a beat since the Federal Aviation Administration gave the company a green light to resume Falcon 9 launches after a failure last month. In 19 days, SpaceX has launched 10 flights of the Falcon 9 rocket, taking advantage of all three of its…
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SpaceX launches Transporter-11 rideshare with 116 payloads
On Friday, Aug. 15, 2024, SpaceX launched the Transporter-11 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB). Liftoff occurred at 11:56 AM PT (18:56 UTC), 36 minutes into a 53-minute launch window. At the end of the mission SpaceX declared that all payloads were successfully deployed. Payloads were deployed…
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Exolaunch Promotes Former Spire Exec to CEO Role
Exolaunch has appointed Robert Sproles, as its new CEO. Sproles has previously been CTO of the company. He replaces Dmitriy Sternharz, the company’s founder, who has led Exolaunch since its inception nearly a decade ago as a spin-off from his work as an associate professor at the Technical University of Berlin. Exolaunch announced the appointment,…
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Apex Space Releases its GEO Aries Satellite Bus
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft bus platform manufacturing company, announced the introduction of GEO Aries, a productized ESPA-class satellite bus designed for geostationary orbit (GEO) missions. Apex will begin delivering GEO Aries buses to customers in 2026. GEO Aries, a version of Apex’s Aries bus platform, is a high delta-v satellite bus designed to support…
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Rocket Lab’s Mars-bound twin satellites – Blue and Gold – hit the road ahead of Blue Origin launch
The fully integrated EscaPADE satellites sit inside a clean room at Rocket Lab’s Space Systems Group facility in Long Beach, California. Image: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is gearing up for its first mission to another planet. In the fall, two of its spacecraft will hitch a ride onboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket to…
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Facing “financial crisis,” Russia on pace for lowest launch total in 6 decades
A Progress cargo supply spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Thursday, local time. The mission was successful, and Russia has launched hundreds of these spacecraft before. So it wasn’t all that big of a deal, except for one small detail: This was just Russia’s ninth orbital launch of the year. At…
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York Space Systems and SDA Demonstrates Link 16 Network Connection from Tranche 0 Satellites
York Space Systems (York), the Denver-based aerospace company dedicated to the rapid deployment of complete space mission solutions, in collaboration with the Space Development Agency (SDA), proudly announces the first-ever successful Link 16 network entry from Tranche 0 (T0) satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to a U.S. Navy ship in international waters. This historic…
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SpaceX Launches 116 payloads on the 11th Transporter Rideshare Mission
SpaceX launched 116 payloads to orbit on Friday in the 11th Transporter dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the mission on Aug. 16 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, lifting off at 11:56 a.m. PT. The mission was set to last 2 hours and 36 minutes to deploy all payloads. For…
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SpaceX launches 116 payloads on Falcon 9 rideshare mission, Transporter-11
A collection of smallsats integrated ahead of SpaceX’s rideshare mission, Transporter-11, ahead of encapsulation within the payload fairings. Image: SpaceX Update 5:46 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms successful deployment of all payloads. SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, sending dozens of spacecraft into orbit with its latest rideshare mission launching from…
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Maxar’s Third and Fourth WorldView Legion Satellites Operating Successfully Post-Launch
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence, confirmed that its third and fourth WorldView Legion satellites are performing well after being launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The satellites are successfully communicating with Maxar’s ground teams. They are now going through the commissioning process, with…