Tag: Launch
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T-Mobile and Starlink Launch Satellite-Powered Wireless Service in Remote Regions
During the country’s largest annual sporting event, T-Mobile introduced the next big thing in wireless, T-Mobile Starlink to tens of millions of football fans. Now in public beta, this breakthrough service, developed in partnership with Starlink, uses straight-out-of-a-sci-fi-movie satellite and mobile communications technology to help keep people connected, Verizon, and AT&T customers in the more…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Next Five Satellites for Kinéis IoT Constellation
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its 59th Electron mission, deploying five satellites to Low Earth Orbit for French Internet-of-Things (IoT) constellation operator Kinéis. The “IOT 4 You and Me” mission lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 9:43 am NZDT on…
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Vast Completes Key Structural Tests for Haven-1 and Reschedules Launch to 2026
Vast Space has reached a major milestone in developing Haven-1, its first commercial space station, by completing critical structural tests. However, the company has also revised its launch schedule, pushing it back to May 2026 instead of the previously planned August 2025. Vast rapidly built the Haven-1 primary structure qualification article, the first U.S.-built space…
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SFL Missions Inc. Secures Canadian Space Agency Contract for HAWC Satellite Design Study
SFL Missions Inc. has been awarded a competitive bid contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to conduct a conceptual design study of the planned High-Altitude Aerosols, Water vapour, and Clouds (HAWC) satellite mission. HAWC is Canada’s contribution to NASA’s Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) mission slated for launch in 2031. “The HAWC mission will collect…
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Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include launching national security satellites, putting astronauts on the Moon, and global broadband communications. But there are hurdles—technical and, increasingly, political—on the road ahead. To put it generously, Elon Musk, without whom much of what…
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Satellogic and Telespazio Signs Multi-Year Contract for Low-Latency Satellite Imagery
Satellogic, a leader in high-resolution Earth observation data, and Telespazio Brasil, a subsidiary of Telespazio S.p.A, a global leader in satellite services and a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), announced that they have entered into a multi-year agreement with the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) to provide low-latency satellite imagery…
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SKY Perfect JSAT and Planet Labs PBC Collaborate on $230M LEO Satellite Constellation
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Planet Labs PBC announce a collaboration to build a satellite constellation using Planet’s next-generation electro optical satellite Pelican. SKY Perfect JSAT, which has primarily focused on its business using its own geostationary orbit satellites, will invest approximately $230 million to build and own low Earth orbit satellite constellation, thereby fully…
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Astrolab’s FLIP Rover Selected as Primary Payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 Moon Mission
Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) and Astrobotic announced that Astrobotic’s Griffin lander will deliver an Astrolab rover to the Moon as part of Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1). The rover, currently known as FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform), will be deployed at the Nobile Region of the lunar south pole. The Astrobotic mission, originally carrying the VIPER…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-3 Arrives at Vandenberg for SpaceX Transporter-13 Launch
Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, announced that LizzieSat-3 has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to begin spacecraft integration in preparation for its scheduled launch and deployment into low Earth orbit no earlier than the first quarter of 2025 as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission with SpaceX. “With LizzieSat-3…
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Europe has the worst imaginable idea to counter SpaceX’s launch dominance
It is not difficult to understand the unease on the European continent about the rise of SpaceX and its controversial founder, Elon Musk. SpaceX has surpassed the European Space Agency and its institutional partners in almost every way when it comes to accessing space and providing secure communications. Last year, for example, SpaceX launched 134…