Tag: Launch
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Planet Labs Expands Partnership with Bayer for Satellite-Powered Agriculture
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced an expanded relationship with Bayer through a multi-year enterprise license agreement. This agreement increases Bayer’s access to Planet’s satellite imagery and analytics, expanding into commercial operations and enabling enhanced decision-making across its global agricultural operations. By leveraging a suite…
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Ariane 6 Successfully Launches CSO-3 Satellite on First Commercial Mission
On March 6, 2025 at 1:24 p.m. local time in Kourou, French Guiana (4:24 p.m. UTC, 5:24 p.m. CET), Ariane 6, the new European heavy-lift launcher operated by Arianespace, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport carrying the CSO-3 satellite on behalf of the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) and the French space agency (CNES), for the…
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Apex’s First Aries Satellite Achieves One Full Year On-Orbit Milestone
Apex‘s first Aries spacecraft mission, Aries Serial Number One (SN1), surpassed one year on-orbit of nominal operations. The anniversary is a major milestone for Apex, the leading high-rate configurable satellite bus platform manufacturer, and for the space industrial base, which now has a new high-rate supplier they can depend on. Aries SN1 is the fastest…
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ICEYE and Saab Partner to Enhance Space-Based Radar in Command Systems
ICEYE, the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, and Saab announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on the development and integration of advanced space-based radar data in Saab’s Command and Control Systems (C2). Space-based sensor capabilities are becoming crucial for modern militaries, providing access to critical information in challenging environments. This…
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Firefly Aerospace Secures NASA Contract to Launch INCUS Mission from Wallops
Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, announced the company was awarded a fixed-price NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract for a dedicated Alpha launch of the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. As part of NASA’s Earth System Science Pathfinder program,…
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NASA Announces Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing
Intuitive Machines, carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to land in Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the Moon’s South Pole, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and…
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Sidus Space Celebrates One Year Orbital Anniversary for LizzieSat-1
Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, announced the one-year orbital anniversary of LizzieSat-1 (LS-1), celebrating 365 days of operational success and technological advancements. Since its launch, LS-1 has demonstrated exceptional capabilities, generating revenue through advanced software applications and reinforcing Sidus’ position at the forefront of space technology. A Year of Innovation and Impact…
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Albedo Secures AFRL STRATFI Award to Advance VLEO Space Capabilities
Albedo, soon to be the first commercial company to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), has been selected for a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) opportunity by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with potential funding of up to $12 million. The contract will provide AFRL with Albedo’s unique dataset on how U.S. Government space…
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BlackSky Provides Very High-Resolution Imagery from its Inaugural Gen-3 Satellite Launch
BlackSky Technology has delivered the first very high-resolution images from the company’s inaugural Gen-3 satellite just five days following its successful launch on February 18. “Initial Gen-3 image quality is exceeding customer expectations with minimal calibration. Our first Gen-3 satellite is delivering remarkable initial image clarity at insertion altitude, and we expect image quality to…
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Rocket Lab Signs Electron Launch Agreements with iQPS
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed one of its largest Electron launch agreements to date in a second multi-launch deal with Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth-imaging company. This newly signed deal follows an earlier multi-launch contract signed with iQPS in…