Arianespace to launch CO3D + MicroCarb satellites via Vega C – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-06-29 00:00
Arianespace will place into orbit Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites, as well as the CNES’s MicroCarb satellite, with a Vega C rocket. The MicroCarb mission is designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a global scale.
Axient selected for USSF STEP 2.0 contract to accelerate military space innovation – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-06-30 00:00
Astrion is one of 12 awardees on the Space Test Experiments (STEP) 2.0 program. STEP 2.0 is a 10-year, multi-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $237 million. The contract aims to advance military space technology, reduce costs, and streamline processes.
SpaceX’s second launch on Saturday, this Starlink Group 15-7 smallsats from super foggy California – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-06-29 00:00
Falcon 9 launched 26 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to build Starlink constellation from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This was the eighth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57, and now four Starlink missions.
SpaceX launches Starlink Group 10-34 on Saturday, the first of two missions from both coasts – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-06-29 00:00
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink Group 10-34 smallsats to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This launch set a new launchpad turnaround record in the predawn hours of Saturday when it launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket. The forecast calls for a temperature of 78°F, light rain, 59% cloud cover, a wind speed of 14mph and 0.52in of rain.
Blue Origin’s NS-33 successful human spaceflight mission – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-06-29 00:00
Blue Origin successfully completed its 13th human spaceflight and the 33rd flight for the New Shepard program. The crew included: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and Jim Sitkin. The flight crossed the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of space 100 kilometers above sea level.
Japan’s GOSAT-GW launches aboard final H-IIA rocket
Original Publication Date: 2025-06-28 15:02
GOSAT-GW is the third mission in the GOSAT series operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) It is expected to operate for at least seven years in a Sun-synchronous orbit 666 km above the Earth. The 2,600 kg GOSAT-GW spacecraft carries two instruments: the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR-3) and the Total Anthropogenic and Natural Emissions Mapping Spectrometer 3.