Boeing opens SLS EUS production facility Original Publication Date: 2023-02-16 00:48 Boeing opens facility where it will build new upper stage for Space Launch System. The Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) Gray Box is a portion of the sprawling building. The stage will be used on the Block 1B ...

Cobham to supply satellite terminals to Inmarsat for U.S. Navy network Original Publication Date: 2023-02-14 18:44 Cobham Satcom will supply as many as 170 terminals to Inmarsat for the U.S. Navy. Inmarsat Government last year won a $578 million 10-year contract to maintain and operate the ...

Launch demand remains high despite industry struggles Original Publication Date: 2023-02-12 14:13 SmallSat Symposium panel: New launch vehicles needed to meet growing demand. "We have more demand than we have supply," Says Saturn Satellite Networks CEO. "We need diversity, just like any market, ...

SpaceX performs Starship static-fire test Original Publication Date: 2023-02-09 22:11 SpaceX fires nearly all of the engines in the booster of its Starship launch vehicle. The test is one of the last technical milestones before the vehicle’s first orbital launch attempt. Company officials had ...

Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure Original Publication Date: 2023-02-08 03:02 Virgin Orbit's chief executive says a problem with a relatively inexpensive part may be linked to the failure of the company’s latest launch. Dan Hart said it was still premature to formally ...

NASASpaceFlight.com India launches a new ocean monitoring satellite on Saturday morning. The PSLV rocket carried the EOS-06 spacecraft into a low Earth orbit. The mission, PSLV C54, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 11:56 local time (06:26 UTC) Commercial Archives SpaceX is set ...

Governments to be major customers of future Axiom Space private astronaut missions Original Publication Date: 2023-02-01 07:05 Axiom Space says customers for its upcoming private astronaut missions are dominated by governments. Company's second mission to the station, tentatively scheduled to ...

Lynk Global finalizing ground station for direct-to-smartphone services Original Publication Date: 2023-01-27 21:47 Lynk Global is close to completing a ground station in Hawaii. The Ka-band ground station is needed to route cellular signals Lynk’s satellites pick up from low Earth orbit. It is ...

U.S. sanctions Chinese satellite firm for allegedly supplying SAR imagery to Russia’s Wagner Group Original Publication Date: 2023-01-27 10:26 Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute hit by sanctions. U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions targeting Wagner Group ...

NASA and DARPA to partner on nuclear thermal propulsion demonstration Original Publication Date: 2023-01-24 18:04 NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to cooperate on nuclear propulsion. Nuclear thermal propulsion offers more efficient propulsion than conventional chemical rockets. ...