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Firefly Aerospace Completes Successful Commercial Moon Mission
Firefly Aerospace achieved all objectives for Blue Ghost Mission 1, following the commercial Moon landing on March 2, the company announced on March 17. The mission operated for more than 14 days of surface operations and 5 hours into the lunar night, with the final data received around 6:15 p.m. CDT on March 16. Firefly…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 61st Electron Mission
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its second mission for a Japanese customer, the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). ‘The Lightning God Reigns’ mission lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 1:00 p.m. NZDT (00:00 UTC) on March 15, 2025,…
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Orion Satellite Systems Adds Intriguing AI Element to Service Offerings
Orion Satellite Systems’ Horizon platform has become Horizon AI, bringing AI-powered data forecasting to satellite connectivity to its customers. The company said the next-generation enhancement allows customers to better anticipate and manage their data usage across Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellations by leveraging AI-driven forecasting to provide proactive…
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SpaceX CFO Johnsen Says Starlink is ‘Enterprise-Quality,’ Favors Adding Guarantees
For years, enterprise customers of Starlink have complained that the company doesn’t offer a conventional enterprise contract, with the traditional guarantees of bandwidth, uptime, and availability, known as “service level agreements” or SLAs. Starlink has still landed enterprise customers without the traditional SLAs, but a lack of SLAs has been part of the conversation with…
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Sidus Space Launched AI-Powered LizzieSat-3 on SpaceX Transporter-13 Mission
Liftoff of the Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, LizzieSat-3 is targeted for a launch window that opens, on March 14, 2025, at 11:39 PM PDT. The satellite will launch as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. LizzieSat-3 is…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launches to ISS for Science Expedition
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission of four crew members were launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace…
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Portal Space Systems opens its doors for a sneak preview of solar propulsion system
VIPs cut the ribbon at Portal Space Systems’ HQ in Bothell, Wash. From left: U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene; Portal co-founders Prashaanth Ravindran, Jeff Thornburg and Ian Vorbach; and Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) BOTHELL, Wash. — From the outside, Portal Space Systems’ headquarters looks like a standard-issue office space in a…
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SpaceX Launches 74 Payloads on the Transporter-13 Rideshare Mission
SpaceX launched 74 payloads on the Transporter-13 mission on Friday in its second rideshare mission of 2025. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:43 p.m. PT on March 14. SpaceX has launched over 1,200 payloads to orbit for more than 130 customers…
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Launch Roundup: Electron, Falcon 9, and Ceres-1 launches flying this week
The busy launch manifests of recent weeks are continuing, with Falcon 9, Electron, and Chinese rocket launches having taken place this week. SpaceX launched Starlink 12-25 and NROL-57 along with NROL-69, while Starlink 11-7 moved into next week. Rocket Lab’s Electron successfully launched from New Zealand on the heels of last week’s “The Lightning God…
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ICEYE Expands SAR Satellite Fleet with Gen4 for Advanced Earth & Defense Imaging
ICEYE, the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging for high-fidelity Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully launched four new 25 cm resolution satellites, strengthening the company’s SAR satellite constellation, the largest in the world. Among the satellites was ICEYE’s Generation 4 satellite (Gen4), marking another leap in the…