Tag: Launch
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Blue Origin To Send 36 Experimental Payloads To Space In 23rd Orbital Mission
Blue Origin, a company that envisions to create a sustainable future by developing reusable launch vehicles and in-space systems that are safe, low cost, and serve the needs of all civil, commercial, and defense customers, is set to launch New Shepard’s 23rd mission, a dedicated payloads flight that will fly 36 payloads from academia, research…
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NASA Selects Three Companies to Develop Solar Array Technology for Moon Exploration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected three companies to further advance work on deployable solar array systems that will help power the agency’s human and robotic exploration of the Moon under Artemis. Through Artemis missions, NASA will return humans to the Moon and establish a long-term presence near the lunar South Pole.…
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Terran Orbital Delivers LunIR Satellite to NASA For Artemis 1 Launch
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, has delivered LunIR to Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. LunIR is a 6U satellite that will fly by the Moon and collect surface thermography as a secondary payload on Artemis 1…
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Vaya Space Signs an Exclusive Launch Agreement with Orbits Edge
Vaya Space, the vortex-hybrid engine rocket company and emerging leader in sustainable space access, has announced that it has entered into a long-term, exclusive launch agreement with Orbits Edge, a space technology emerging leader pioneering the commercialization of space. Orbits Edge has partnered with Hewlett Packard, AWS, NVIDIA, Red Hat, and Milky Way Economy to…
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D-Orbit Signs Multi Year Launch and Deployment Contract with Astrocast
D-Orbit, a space logistics company, has announced the signing of a multiple launch and deployment contract with Astrocast, a leading Swiss IoT-focused nanosatellite company. According to the agreement, D-Orbit will launch twenty of Astrocast’s satellites aboard the ION Satellite Carrier, D-Orbit’s versatile and cost-effective orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) designed to precisely deploy satellites and perform technology…
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Astroport Space Awarded Second NASA Contract to Develop Landing Pads for Lunar Mission
Astroport Space Technologies has been awarded its second NASA Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the construction of landing pads on the Moon. Astroport and its research partner, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will develop geotechnical engineering processes for “Lunar Surface Site Preparation for Landing/Launch Pad and Blast Shield…
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Spire Global Partners with Hancom inSpace for a Second Satellite Launch Mission
Spire Global, a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has announced an agreement with HANCOM inSPACE (“Hancom”), initially a spin-off by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and now a part of HANCOM Group, for a second mission with Spire Space Services. Hancom will host an optical payload on a second Spire 6U…
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Xona Receives Investment to Develop Commercial Satellite Navigation Network
Xona Space Systems, a pioneer in navigation technologies from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has announced that they have raised an oversubscribed financing round to accelerate the development of their high-performance commercial satellite navigation network, bringing their total funding to over $25M. The round was led by First Spark Ventures who is joined by numerous new…
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Astra finds electrical, software failures as root causes of ELaNa 41 mission failure
Astra has determined the causes of two failure points that led to the loss to the LV0008 Rocket 3 mission, also known as ELaNA 41, on February 10, 2022. During the launch, a failure occurred around the time of stage separation, with Astra announcing not one but two separate failures – one affecting payload fairing…
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Falcon Heavy’s first national security launch slips to October
The second launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in April 2019. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now The next launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed from July to October to await the readiness of its U.S. military payload, and the following Falcon Heavy flight has been rescheduled from late…