Tag: Launch
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Muon Space Announces Starship-Class Spacecraft Platform Built for Scale
Muon Space, the Mission Foundry for high-performance satellite constellations, unveiled Condor-Ultra, its newest spacecraft platform developed for high-power, networked constellations of hundreds to thousands of satellites. Optimized for stackable mass-deployment from SpaceX’s Starship, Condor-Ultra anchors communications, sensing and data-center class compute missions with the most demanding power, aperture and data requirements at unprecedented scale and…
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Planet Delivers Pelican-11 to Launch Site Ahead of SpaceX Transporter-17 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced that Pelican-11, the tech demonstration satellite of the second generation (Gen 2) of its high-resolution Pelican fleet, has shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of the launch aboard the upcoming Transporter-17 rideshare mission with SpaceX. Planet’s…
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Resolve Optics Supplies Flight-Ready Camera Lenses for Satellite Missions
Resolve Optics has supplied an initial batch of 10 flight ready lenses to a manufacturer of compact camera cores designed to withstand launch conditions and maintain optical performance while being exposed to the extreme operating conditions experienced in the space environment. Designed to operate in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) – the cameras with integrated flight…
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In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability
The race to field China’s first reusable launch vehicle is far less predictable than a similar competition that played out in the United States a decade ago. There was never any real question of which company would develop and demonstrate the first reusable orbital-class rocket in the United States. SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster…
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Voyager Technologies to Acquire Astrobotic Technology
Voyager Technologies signed an agreement to acquire Astrobotic Technology, the Pittsburgh-based pioneer of commercial lunar delivery, lunar power and reusable rockets. Astrobotic is a key strategic acquisition in the company’s lunar initiative road map: the hardware and operational capability to land on the lunar surface, sustain life and execute critical missions. “We are building the…
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Impulse Space Raises $500 Million Series D Funding Round
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, announced it has raised $500 million in Series D funding. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, bringing the company’s total capital raised to over $1 billion. The funding will support hiring and manufacturing growth as the company scales its effort to build in-space mobility infrastructure:…
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PLD Space Invests €35 Million in Guiana Space Centre Launch Complex
In the context of the Choose France event, held in Versailles, PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has announced a €35 million investment in the development and deployment of its Launch Complex at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou (French Guiana) over the 2025-2026 period. This investment positions PLD Space as the first…
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SEOPS Announces Waymaker Rideshare Program with Inaugural Falcon 9 Mission
During the SmallSat Europe conference being held in Amsterdam, space access provider SEOPS announced its Waymaker program, the company’s dedicated rideshare missions to low Earth orbit (LEO). Waymaker is designed to provide customers with SEOPS-managed dedicated rideshare capacity to LEO through standardized capacity portions, defined interfaces, and a managed mission process. SEOPS has signed a…
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ICEYE Secures €28.3 Million R&D Grant from Business Finland
ICEYE, the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space, announced that Business Finland, Finland’s public innovation agency, has approved a €28.3 million continuation grant, the final tranche of a previously announced major R&D investment decision. As European nations accelerate investment in sovereign defence and national resilience from border and maritime security to disaster response the…
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AeroVironment to Accelerate Production of Next-Generation Freedom Eagle-1 Interceptor
AeroVironment, a global defense technology leader, announced an additional government investment of $20.2 million in AV’s Huntsville, Alabama facility to increase quantities of Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and accelerate future Full-Rate Production (FRP) of the Next-Generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Missile (NGCM), known as Freedom Eagle-1 (FE-1). The expanded site will serve as the system-level integration,…