Tag: Launch
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Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft for Varda Successfully Deployed to Orbit
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced its third Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries is successfully operating on orbit. The W-3 mission launched March 14, from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:43 p.m. PDT (06:43 a.m. UTC). The new mission is underway on orbit just 15 days after…
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Exolaunch Reaches 500th Satellite Deployed During Transporter-13 with SpaceX
Exolaunch, the global leader in launch mission management, satellite integration, and deployment services, has successfully deployed 27 customer satellites on SpaceX‘s Transporter-13 rideshare mission, delivering nearly 1,500 kilograms of payloads into orbit for customers from fourteen countries. The mission also marked the first flight of Exolaunch’s Quadro four-point separation system, which performed flawlessly, ensuring a…
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Muon Space Launches FireSat Protoflight to Revolutionize Wildfire Detection
Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider, has successfully launched the FireSat Protoflight satellite, marking a significant milestone in the deployment of the FireSat constellation. This groundbreaking initiative aims to transform global wildfire detection, monitoring, and response. Designed and built by Muon Space, including its state-of-the-art six-channel multispectral infrared (IR) instrument, FireSat showcases the company’s…
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Kongsberg NanoAvionics Deploys First Satellite for Norway’s N3X Maritime Surveillance Constellation
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has successfully launched the first of three initial microsatellites for Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace’s N3X constellation. The launch is part of a five-year contract awarded in 2024 by the Norwegian Armed Forces to KONGSBERG for providing maritime surveillance data. The ARVAKER I satellite was launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission from Vandenberg Space…
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Rocket Lab Unveils Satellite Software for Ground Data and Spacecraft Operations
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced InterMission and MAX Constellation, two next-generation software suites that build on successful missions to the Moon and beyond to deliver advanced autonomy, security, and scalability for complex space missions and constellation operations. The new platforms were introduced at the SATELLITE conference in Washington,…
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Ursa Major to Provide Chemical Propulsion for Tactical Satellite Bus Systems
Ursa Major has been awarded a contract for delivery of fully integrated GEO propulsion systems for a customer focused on critical space missions. The multi-year award totaling $10 to $15 million supports the development, manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing of a full propulsion system capable of six degree-of-freedom maneuverability. Building upon successful flights for hypersonic…
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BlackSky Delivers 1st AI-Enabled Analytics Derived from Gen-3 Imagery
BlackSky Technology, 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, has delivered its first AI-enabled analytics derived from new, very high-resolution imagery captured by the company’s first Gen-3 satellite three weeks after its successful…
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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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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…