Space Force selects vendors for suborbital launch services Original Publication Date: 2024-01-27 10:33 Kratos Space & Missile Defense Systems, L3Harris' Aerojet Rocketdyne Coleman Aerospace. Corvid Technologies awarded indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contracts. Sounding rockets are ...

French SSA startup Aldoria raises $10.9 million Original Publication Date: 2024-01-23 08:16 Aldoria, a company previously known as Share My Space, raised $10.9 million. The company currently operates a network of six optical telescopes that track objects in orbit. The funding will be used in ...

NASA instruments set to fly on Peregrine commercial lunar lander Original Publication Date: 2024-01-05 03:42 NASA is preparing for the first launch of a commercial lunar lander carrying agency-sponsored payloads. Peregrine is carrying 20 payloads, including five instruments from NASA. Three of ...

China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket Original Publication Date: 2023-11-22 23:08 Chinese launch startup Landspace has unveiled plans to develop a reusable stainless steel rocket. The Zhuque-3 (Vermillion Bird 3) will use stainless propellant tanks and clusters of Tianque ...

House bill would fully fund Mars Sample Return, block cooperation on ExoMars Original Publication Date: 2023-11-03 23:04 House appropriators would fully fund NASA’s Mars Sample Return program. The Senate bill provided only $300 million for the program, less than a third of NASA’s request. The ...

Starlink and SES join forces for multi-orbit cruise connectivity Original Publication Date: 2023-09-13 06:50 SES and SpaceX are pooling their broadband satellites to offer cruise operators an integrated service. The SES Cruise mPowered + Starlink service would mostly use SpaceX’s low Earth ...

Xenesis to send optical terminal to ISS platform Original Publication Date: 2023-08-07 10:00 Xenesis is preparing to install an optical communications hub for customers of Bartolomeo. Illinois-based Xenesis plans to ship the Xen-Hub optical flight terminal to Airbus in November. Xenesis will ...

O3b mPower faces delays as SES investigates electrical issue Original Publication Date: 2023-08-03 21:35 SES needs to conduct extra tests before launching its next pair of O3b mPower satellites. Glitch is sporadically tripping off power modules on its first four in medium Earth orbit. CEO Ruy ...

House rejects satellite spectrum licensing bill because of space safety provisions Original Publication Date: 2023-07-26 00:15 The bill was intended to improve the licensing process for satellite systems at the FCC. It would have set time limits on the FCC’s review of satellite licenses and ...

ESA preparing for “assisted reentry” of Aeolus spacecraft Original Publication Date: 2023-07-20 00:13 A series of maneuvers will lower the perigee of the Aeolus spacecraft. The reentry, projected over the Atlantic Ocean, will take place on July 28. The maneuvers are intended to minimize any ...