Tag: Launch
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Starship Flight 13 Carries 20 Starlink V3 Sats July 16
Does Starship Flight 13 Carry Its First Real Payload? Yes — and it matters. SpaceX has confirmed Starship Flight 13 is targeting liftoff from Starbase, Texas, as early as Thursday, July 16, carrying 20 Starlink V3 satellites: the vehicle’s first operational payload in 13 flights of developmental testing. For the first time, the world’s most…
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China’s Commercial Space Industry Reaches Its “TEMU Moment”
Satellites have traditionally been among the world’s most expensive assets. Building, launching, and operating a spacecraft often required investments measured in millions of dollars, limiting access to governments, military organizations, and large corporations. China’s commercial space industry is now attempting to change that equation. Driven by automated manufacturing, expanding launch capacity, and large-scale satellite production,…
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Unseenlabs Releases Second-Generation RF Satellite for Multi-Domain Awareness
Unseenlabs announces the deployment of its new generation of satellites (Gen 2), scaling up its space-based radio frequency (RF) detection capabilities from focused maritime domain awareness to broader multi-domain awareness including maritime, land and space. This new generation expands Unseenlabs’ ability to provide actionable data and intelligence services, supporting customers worldwide to make informed decisions…
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GRITSS Launches to Demonstrate Next-Gen Geodetic Technology
The GRITSS mission successfully launched this morning aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Developed on behalf of NASA and the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), the mission will demonstrate innovative geodetic technologies designed to improve the accuracy of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF),…
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Triton Space Technologies Advances In-Space Propulsion with Non-Toxic Thruster Systems
Triton Space Technologies is expanding the portfolio of spacecraft propulsion technologies through the development of innovative in-space propulsion systems engineered for orbital missions. Building on more than a decade of experience in rocket engine feed system design, aerospace valve technologies, manufacturing and propulsion testing, the company is developing propulsion solutions that emphasize high performance, operational…
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Impulse Space Awarded U.S Space Force NSSL Phase 3 Launch Services Contract
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, announced it has been awarded a Firm Fixed-Price (FFP), Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 contract by the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command. The award provides an on-ramp for Impulse to become a launch services provider, via the Helios upper stage, for the U.S. Space Force. The…
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Historic First: Long March-10B Successfully Demonstrates Controlled First-Stage Recovery
Long March-10B Rocket Makes Successful Maiden Flight and Booster Recovery At 12:15 p.m. on July 10, 2026, the Long March-10B launch vehicle lifted off from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site. Approximately six minutes after first-stage and second-stage separation, the first-stage booster executed a controlled vertical return and was successfully recovered on an offshore recovery…
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Planet Labs Launches Pelican-11 Satellite
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced the successful launch of Pelican-11, the tech demonstration satellite (TD2) for the second generation (Gen 2) of its high-resolution Pelican fleet. The spacecraft was launched to orbit aboard the Transporter-17 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base in…
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Venus Aerospace Raises $91 Million to Develop Flight-Proven High-Thrust RDRE Into Full Propulsion Systems
After completing the world’s first successful flight test of a high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) in May 2025, Venus Aerospace announced the close of a $91 million Series B financing led by Mercury Fund, a Houston-based venture capital firm, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, MESH, PEAK6, Draper Associates, Starboard Star Venture Capital, Green…
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Axelspace Launches Earth Observation Microsatellites on SpaceX Transporter-17
Axelspace Corporation, a developer and operator of microsatellites, announced that the seven GRUS-3 next-generation Earth observation microsatellites were successfully launched and that the first radio signals were successfully received. GRUS-3 was integrated via Exolaunch and launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, on July 7, 2026, at…