Tag: Launch
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ICEYE Elevates Its Radar Imaging Constellation With the Launch of Four New Satellites
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring with radar imaging satellites and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has expanded its constellation with four new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites on November 11. The launch of SpaceX’s Transporter-9 smallsat rideshare mission via Exolaunch was conducted from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA.…
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Rocket Lab Announces Next Electron Launch Window and Provides Update on Anomaly Review
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has set a return to launch window for its Electron launch vehicle. Rocket Lab will return to the pad at Launch Complex 1 with a dedicated Electron mission for Japan-based Earth imaging company iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of…
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Planet to Launch Pelican and 36 SuperDoves Satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, one of the leading providers of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that its Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, Flock 4Q, will be launching on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission on November 11, 2023, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX’s launch window will open at 10:49 a.m.…
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Momentus and RIDE! Space Team Up to Link SmallSat Operators with In-Space Services
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, has signed an agreement with RIDE! Space to make its services available through the RIDE! Space platform. Momentus and RIDE! Space recently signed a services agreement to fly Gaindesat and Djibouti payloads on…
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Rocket Lab Signs an Agreement with the Department of Defense for HASTE Launch Mission
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a launch services agreement with the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for a HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) mission from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia. The HASTE mission will deploy a…
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Firefly Aerospace Partners with Fleet Space to Deliver Seismic Payload to the Moon’s Far Side
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced a new agreement with Fleet Space Technologies, an Australian space exploration firm, to deliver and operate Fleet’s Seismic Payload for Interplanetary Discovery, Exploration, and Research (SPIDER) on the far side of the Moon. In addition to payloads from NASA and the European Space Agency, the Australian-backed SPIDER…
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Department of Air Force Set to Launch Seventh X-37B Mission on SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket
The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, in partnership with the United States Space Force, is scheduled to launch the seventh mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on December 7, 2023, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The X-37B Mission 7 will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time,…
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NASA Invites Feedback for Future Lunar Surface Resource Utilization Demonstration
As NASA ushers in an exciting era of long-term exploration on the Moon with Artemis, new strategies are being formulated to determine how technology, infrastructure, and operations will function together as a cohesive and cross-cutting system. As a sustained presence grows at the Moon, opportunities to harvest lunar resources could lead to safer, more efficient…
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Leidos Successfully Deploys Its Potable Water System to the International Space Station
Leidos, a FORTUNE 500 science and technology leader, announced the successful deployment of its Exploration Potable Water Dispenser (xPWD) for the International Space Station (ISS). The xPWD is the culmination of nearly three years of design, development, testing, and certification work performed by Leidos as part of NASA’s Cargo Mission Contract (CMC). “Leidos is devoted…
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Early Production Continues on Advanced Upper Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System
Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed a major portion of a weld confidence article for the advanced upper stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The hardware was rotated to a horizontal position and moved to another part of the facility on October 24. The weld confidence article forms…