Tag: Launch
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LeoLabs to Deliver Scalable Space Surveillance Data for Safety and Security Missions
LeoLabs, the world’s leading mission partner for persistent Orbital Intelligence, announced it was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Joint Commercial Operations cell (JCO) to license access to the company’s Object Catalog. The contract, awarded on 30 September 2025, marks…
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AnySignal Secures Funding to Boost Space Connectivity and Build New LA Manufacturing Facility
AnySignal, a vertically integrated platform for wireless connectivity, sensing, and national security infrastructure, announced that it has raised $24 million in Series A funding. The company will use the investment to scale production of its space communications platform, expand its national security products, and build a new facility in the Los Angeles area that consolidates…
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Planet Labs Releases First Light Imagery from Pelican-6 High-Resolution EO Satellite
Planet Labs, a leading provider of near-daily data and insights on Earth’s changing landscape, has released first-light images from its Pelican-6 satellite of Lhasa Gonggar International Airport in Tibet, China. The image was taken on December 4, from an altitude of approximately 519 km. Image quality is expected to improve as the spacecraft completes the…
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D-Orbit Launches Two ION Satellite Carrier Missions on SpaceX’s Transporter-15
D-Orbit, a global leader in space logistics and orbital transportation, launched We Need More Space and Ride With Me, the 20th and 21st commercial missions of the orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), ION Satellite Carrier (ION), aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission. The two ION vehicles were launched from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force…
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Balerion Space Ventures Funds Three US Companies Leading the Next Industrial Revolution
Balerion Space Ventures announced investments in three frontier technology companies positioned at the centre of a fundamental shift in how America builds, powers, and operates critical infrastructure beyond Earth’s surface. Balerion’s investments in Antares Industries, Samara Aerospace, and Valar Atomics signal the intensifying convergence of space, defence, and industrial-scale energy systems, sectors increasingly recognised as…
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Rocket Lab Certifies Hungry Hippo Fairing for Inaugural Neutron Launch
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced that the Neutron launch vehicle’s innovative “Hungry Hippo” captive fairing has successfully completed qualification testing and is en route to Virginia for Neutron’s first launch. Dubbed the Hungry Hippo, Neutron’s fairing halves remain attached to the rocket’s first stage throughout launch and…
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Flexitech Aerospace Provides Advanced Antenna Portfolio for Satellite Communications
Flexitech Aerospace, a US-based provider of precision-engineered satellite subsystems, highlights the expanding portfolio of space-qualified antenna solutions designed to support a wide range of modern orbital missions. The company specializes in the development of deployable antennas, fixed high-gain apertures and custom RF structures, offering configurations suitable for small satellites, deep-space scientific missions, commercial communication platforms…
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ispace Confirms HAKUTO-R Lunar Program to Officially End in December 2025
ispace, a global lunar exploration company, announced that the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program launched in September 2018, will conclude upon the expiration of contracts with all 22 partner companies on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. HAKUTO-R was the initial realization of “Expand our planet. Expand our future. Expanding humanity’s habitat into space, toward a sustainable world” —aiming…
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Open Cosmos Aegean Opens Cutting-Edge Satellite Facilities in Greece
Open Cosmos Aegean has officially unveiled its new high-tech satellite manufacturing facilities in Pallini, marking a pivotal milestone in Greece’s evolution from a space technology user to a producer and exporter of advanced satellite systems. During an Open Door event at Open Cosmos Aegean, attended by the Minister of Digital Governance, Mr. Dimitris Papastergiou, other…
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Lunar Outpost’s MAPP Rover Selected to Support NASA’s Artemis IV DUSTER Investigation
Lunar Outpost, a leader in planetary mobility and in-space infrastructure, announced that it was selected for development for NASA’s upcoming Artemis IV mission, in partnership with Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Central Florida, and the University of California, Berkeley. Lunar Outpost’s MAPP (Mobile Autonomous…