Tag: commercial-space
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Seattle rideshare space company wins a shout-out for disrupting launch industry
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends 64 satellites into space from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in December 2018 to kick off Spaceflight’s SSO-A satellite rideshare mission. (SpaceX Photo) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has taken the spotlight in a research note from Morgan Stanley for disrupting the process of putting satellites in space — in a good way.…
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Arianespace preps for first of up to 13 launches in French Guiana this year
The Hellas-Sat 4/SGS 1 communications satellite during encapsulation inside the Ariane 5’s payload fairing in French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A European Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled for blastoff Tuesday from a jungle launch pad in South America with two geostationary telecom payloads — one owned by…
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Arianespace preps for first of up to 13 launches in French Guiana this year
The Hellas-Sat 4/SGS 1 communications satellite during encapsulation inside the Ariane 5’s payload fairing in French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A European Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled for blastoff Tuesday from a jungle launch pad in South America with two geostationary telecom payloads — one owned by…
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Chinese company inks deal to launch 90 commercial smallsats
File photo of the first flight of China’s Long March 6 rocket in 2015. Credit: Chinese Ministry of Defense Satellogic’s recent agreement with a Chinese company to launch 90 commercial Earth observation satellites on five or six dedicated Long March rocket flights marks one of China’s biggest wins in the global launch market. Satellogic has…
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Chinese company inks deal to launch 90 commercial smallsats
File photo of the first flight of China’s Long March 6 rocket in 2015. Credit: Chinese Ministry of Defense Satellogic’s recent agreement with a Chinese company to launch 90 commercial Earth observation satellites on five or six dedicated Long March rocket flights marks one of China’s biggest wins in the global launch market. Satellogic has…
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Photos: Delta 4-Heavy blasts off from Vandenberg
The first of up to seven United Launch Alliance missions lifted off Jan. 19 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where a Delta 4-Heavy launcher fired into orbit with 2.1 million pounds of thrust from three hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engines with a U.S. government spy satellite. The orange and white launcher, standing 233 feet…
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Photos: Delta 4-Heavy blasts off from Vandenberg
The first of up to seven United Launch Alliance missions lifted off Jan. 19 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where a Delta 4-Heavy launcher fired into orbit with 2.1 million pounds of thrust from three hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engines with a U.S. government spy satellite. The orange and white launcher, standing 233 feet…
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson talks up spacesuits and his countdown to space trip
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson share a moment with Nick Cienski, Under Armour’s lead spacesuit designer. (Under Armour Photo) Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, today took the wraps off a partnership with Under Armour to create the spacesuit and the footwear that he could well be wearing on…