Tag: Launch
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Rocket Lab Beats Annual Launch Record with Back-To-Back Electron Missions
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, completed its second launch in two days from its launch sites in two hemispheres, setting a new annual launch record for the Company: 18 Electron launches in 2025 with 100% mission success. The “Follow My Speed” mission lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch…
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ICEYE and SSC Partner to Advance Nordic and NATO Space Capabilities
ICEYE, the global leader in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations, and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), a leading global provider of advanced space services, announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI). This LOI outlines a plan to leverage their complementary strengths, aiming to enhance sovereign space capabilities for Nordic and NATO security. The…
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CesiumAstro’s Element Provides a Fully Integrated Satellite Platform for High-Throughput Communications
Austin-based CesiumAstro, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops advanced active phased-array communications payloads and integrated satellite systems for commercial, civil and defense applications. The company’s Element platform is a fully integrated LEO satellite system built to host CesiumAstro’s electronically steerable Ka-band payloads, combining a modular satellite bus with software-defined communications hardware. Designed…
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Arcfield Secures $70 Million US Army Contract for Hypersonic Test and Planning
Arcfield, a leading government services and mission support provider, announced that it has been selected as the prime contractor on the Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems II (HyTEMPS II) program from the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). This award represents follow-on work for the company, has a five-year period of…
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Isar Aerospace to Launch SEOPS Mission in 2028 Using Spectrum Rocket
Satellite launch service company Isar Aerospace has signed a launch service agreement with SEOPS, a U.S.-based integration and mission services provider, for a dedicated mission scheduled in 2028. Isar Aerospace’s launch vehicle ‘Spectrum’ will deploy multiple payloads into a low Earth orbit (LEO) from its dedicated launch complex at Andøya Space in Norway. “The global demand…
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Redwire Secures $44 Million DARPA Contract for Very Low-Earth Orbit Mission
Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, announced that it has been awarded a $44 million phase 2 contract to advance the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Otter Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mission to demonstrate the world’s first air-breathing spacecraft and advance next-generation orbital capabilities. The phase 2 contract…
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Spire Global Ships Nine Satellites to Launch Site
Spire Global, a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced that nine satellites designed and built by Spire’s in-house manufacturing teams have shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of their launch aboard SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 Twilight mission. The mission includes the Company’s Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) satellite…
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Sidus Space and Lonestar Drive Rapid Progress on Commercial Pathfinder Mission
Sidus Space, an innovative space and defense technology company, announced revenue-associated milestones on the Lonestar Data Holdings Commercial Pathfinder Mission. Following the contract signing, the companies have completed the mission kickoff meeting and System Requirements Review (SRR), marking rapid advancement toward full mission execution with initial payment received. These achievements are part of the contract…
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Rocket Lab’s HASTE Vehicle Advances National Missile Defense Testing for DIU and MDA
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it successfully launched a suborbital mission with its HASTE launch vehicle for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) – advancing national interests in safeguarding the homeland through the testing of advanced technologies for missile defense. The launch on HASTE…
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Dcubed Introduces ARAQYS to Redefine Scalable Space-Based Energy Solutions
Dcubed GmbH, a leader in release actuators, deployable space structures, and In-Space Manufacturing (ISM) technologies, announced its expansion into space-based energy systems with the introduction of ARAQYS, the power solution for space. With ARAQYS, Dcubed is positioning itself as the category leader in delivering affordable, scalable, and unlimited energy in orbit. After SpaceX, Rocket Lab,…