Orbex starting development of medium sized launch vehicle + operations going to SaxaVord – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-08 00:00 Orbex will instead launch its first rockets from SaxaVord. The decision enables the company to direct more funding to the development of a new, ...

NASA’s IXPE Details Shapes of Structures at Newly Discovered Black Hole Original Publication Date: 2024-12-06 13:52 NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole. The stellar-mass black hole, part of ...

ESA launches Copernicus Sentinel-1C aboard Vega-C from French Guiana – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-05 00:00 The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on ...

Mechanical issue delays ESA’s Vega-C’s launch of Sentinel-1C to Thursday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-04 00:00 The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite will be launched from Kourou, French Guiana. The launch will be the return to flight for Vega-C, Europe’s lightweight, ...

SpaceX Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Wednesday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-03 00:00 SpaceX will launch a batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation on Wednesday. The forecast calls for a temperature of 61°F, clear skies, 0% cloud cover and a wind speed of 6mph. ...

SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Tuesday including Direct to Cell – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-02 00:00 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is ready to launch Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Tuesday December 3 at 4:29 PM – 8:29 PM PST from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg ...

Comtech’s new Executive Chairman brings expertise in leadership – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-01 00:00 Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announces that its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Kenneth (Ken) H. Traub as the Executive Chairman of the Company. ...

L3Harris completes CDR for SDA satellite radios – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-27 00:00 The company conducted a Critical Design Review for 45 mission payload (MPL) radios and 40 CXK-1000 radios. The radios will handle and process warfighting data supporting Integrated Broadcast ...

SpaceX launches Starlink Group 6-76 of 24 smallsats, but before the booster recovery “satellite link disconnected” – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-26 00:00 Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites, to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA awards launch services contract for Dragonfly mission – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-25 00:00 NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission. The rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program is designed to explore Saturn’s moon ...