Tag: Launch
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NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman’s 21st Cargo Space Station Departure
After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners, Northrop Grumman‘s uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Friday, March 28. This mission was the company’s 21st commercial resupply mission to the space…
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Exolaunch Partners with Canadian Space Agency to Deploy CubeSats for CUBICS Initiative
Exolaunch, a global leader in launch mission management, integration and satellite deployment services, has signed a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to support the deployment of CubeSats as part of CUBICS (CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM), a program designed to advance space science and technology while training Canada’s future…
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Botswana and Dragonfly Aerospace Successful Launches BOTSAT-1
Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), in collaboration with Dragonfly Aerospace, has successfully launched BOTSAT-1, Botswana’s first national satellite. The satellite was launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9—Transporter-13 rideshare mission on March 15, 2025, marking a historic achievement in Botswana’s journey to becoming a space-faring nation. BOTSAT-1, owned and operated by Botswana, was developed…
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Firefly Aerospace: Revolutionizing Space Access and Exploration
Firefly Aerospace, headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, is making significant advancements in the commercial space industry. Established to provide cost-effective and rapid space access, the company specializes in small to medium satellite launch services, lunar landers, and orbital transfer vehicles. With key partnerships, including NASA, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Space Force, Firefly is cementing…
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Kratos Starts Construction of Hypersonic System Indiana Payload Integration Facility
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a technology company specializing in defense, national security, and global markets, announced the groundbreaking of Kratos’ Hypersonic System Indiana Payload Integration Facility (IPIF) in Crane, Indiana. This state-of-the-art 68,000-square-foot office, laboratory, integration, and test complex will support critical hypersonic vehicle and payload activities and systems for the Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities…
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Spire Global and NVIDIA Introduce AI-Powered Weather Models for Advanced Forecasting
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced the launch of two advanced AI weather models: AI-WX and AI-S2S. Developed on NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2, these models leverage Spire’s proprietary satellite data to deliver both medium-range and sub-seasonal forecasts, offering unparalleled forecasting capabilities to industries such as energy, utilities,…
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Sidus Space Successfully Deploys LizzieSat-3 to Expand AI-Powered LEO Constellation
Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, announced the successful launch, deployment, and operation of LizzieSat-3 into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission with SpaceX, which launched on March 14th, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. LizzieSat-3 joins LizzieSat-1 and 2, which have been in orbit since March…
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Rocket Lab Schedules Electron Launch for OroraTech Wildfire Detection Mission
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has scheduled a rapid turnaround mission on Electron for OroraTech, a Germany-based global provider of wildfire detection and monitoring solutions. The mission, named “Finding Hot Wildfires Near You”, is set to launch during a window that opens on March 27th NZDT and…
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General Atomics OTB Satellite Achieves Mission Success After Five Years in Orbit
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that the Orbital Test Bed satellite (OTB) launched in June of 2019 has successfully completed its five-year mission. The OTB spacecraft will now begin its estimated two-decade deorbit phase. “OTB began an exciting chapter for GA-EMS as this was the first launch of our GA-150 spacecraft hosting multiple payloads…
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BlackSky Concludes Critical Design Review with Major International Defense Customer
BlackSky Technologies, a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world, completed a critical design review (CDR) with a major international defense customer successfully confirming that the company’s next-generation architecture, powered by its Gen-3 constellation,…