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Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX’s 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was the rocket’s payload: two-dozen Project Kuiper satellites, which were dispensed into low-Earth orbit on target. This was SpaceX’s second launch of satellites for Amazon, which…

India is investing in a national Earth Observation (EO) constellation, selecting Pixxel to lead a consortium of companies under a public-private partnership framework. The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) announced the initiative on Tuesday, led by Pixxel with the consortium including Piersight Space, Satsure Analytics India, and Dhruva Space.  The consortium has…

Infinite Orbits and the French Ministry of Defence have signed a framework agreement for a micro surveillance satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) for French Space Command. The Orbit Guard satellite announced Tuesday has a planned launch date of 2027. The mission has been named Paladin, from the line of Orbit Guard servicing satellites — micro satellites…

Arianespace launched the second commercial Ariane 6 mission on Tuesday evening, launching EUMETSAT‘s Metop-SGA1 satellite. The Ariane 6 rocket took off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 9:37 p.m. local time (8:37 p.m. EDT).  This was the second commercial mission for the Ariane 6 rocket. The first commercial mission was in March of…

Arianespace launched the second commercial Ariane 6 mission on Tuesday evening, launching EUMETSAT‘s Metop-SGA1 satellite. The Ariane 6 rocket took off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 9:37 p.m. local time (8:37 p.m. EDT).  This was the second commercial mission for the Ariane 6 rocket. The first commercial mission was in March of…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is to ramp up Vulcan rocket launches significantly in the next two years to a possible annual number of more than 30 by 2027 — 60% for commercial and 40% for the Defense Department and the intelligence community. Tuesday evening, ULA’s Vulcan rocket launched its debut National Security Space Launch for…