Tag: Launch
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Maxar Space Systems Secures New Order for High-Power GEO Communications Satellite
Maxar Space Systems, satellite manufacturer and provider of advanced solutions for space exploration, has received an order for a geostationary (GEO) high-power communications satellite from a private commercial customer. The satellite will be built on the Maxar 1300 series platform at the company’s manufacturing facilities in Palo Alto and San Jose, California. It will feature…
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Sierra Space to Conduct Cancer Research on Spaceplane Mission to International Space Station
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced new initiatives to advance research and development of biopharmaceutical solutions in low-Earth orbit during the Dream Chaser spaceplane’s inaugural mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The plans include conducting experiments…
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Varda Space Successfully Lands W-2 Capsule in Australia
Varda Space Industries, a microgravity-enabled life sciences company, announced the successful landing of its second reentry capsule, W-2, and the completion of the company’s second mission. At 6:32 AM Pacific Time, W-2 touched down at the Koonibba Test Range after six weeks in orbit. The W-2 capsule carried a spectrometer built by the Air Force…
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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lander Achieves Historic First Commercial Moon Landing
Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, announced its Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down on the Moon’s surface in an upright, stable configuration on the company’s first attempt. As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, sets the…
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Rocket Lab Unveils Ocean Platform for Neutron Rocket Landings at Sea
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, has revealed details about ‘Return On Investment’, the ocean landing platform for Neutron missions returning to Earth. ‘Return On Investment’ is a 400 ft (122 m) modified barge that will be customized to enable landings at sea for its reusable Neutron rocket. Modifications…
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SpaceX readies a redo of last month’s ill-fated Starship test flight
SpaceX plans to launch the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket as soon as Monday after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The test flight will be a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to achieve on the previous Starship launch in January, when the rocket broke apart and showered debris…
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Phison and Lonestar Partner to Launch First Lunar Data Center Hardware
Phison Electronics, a leading innovator in NAND flash technologies has partnered with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., a leader in lunar infrastructure and Resiliency as a Service (RaaS), to support successful lunar mission launch, Lonestar’s Freedom Mission. The Freedom payload utilizes SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and is set to reach the lunar surface on March 4th,…
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Maxar Space Systems Delivers Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Satellite to L3Harris
Maxar Space Systems, leading satellite manufacturer and provider of advanced solutions for space exploration and operations, announced it has delivered the first of 16 spacecraft buses to L3Harris Technologies to support the Space Development Agency (SDA)’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Leveraging their Maxar 300 platform, Maxar Space Systems designed and developed this purpose-built bus…
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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
Welcome to Edition 7.33 of the Rocket Report! Phew, what a week for Rocket Lab! The company released a bevy of announcements in conjunction with its quarterly earnings report Thursday. Rocket Lab is spending a lot of money to develop the medium-lift Neutron rocket, and as we’ll discuss below, a rocket landing platform and a new…
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Blue Origin Reveals NS-31 Crew For New Shepard’s 11th Human Flight
Blue Origin announced the six people flying on its NS-31 mission. The crew includes Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, who brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share…