FCC’s Rosenworcel announces departure – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-21 00:00 Jessica Rosenworcel will leave the FCC on January 20th 2025. She is the first woman in history to be confirmed to lead the agency. President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Brendan Carr to the ...

SpaceX salutes Starlink Group 6-69 as smallsats and Koreasat-6A each soar on Veterans Day – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-11 00:00 SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...

China launches first satellites for Thousand Sails megaconstellation Original Publication Date: 2024-08-06 09:52 China launches first batch of 18 satellites for the Thousand Sails communications megaconstellation. Long March 6A rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north ...

China conducts three launches inside two days Original Publication Date: 2024-05-31 07:34 China has carried out a pair of solid rocket launches and sent a communications satellite towards geostationary orbit for Pakistan. A Long March 3B lifted off at 8:12 a.m. Eastern (1212 UTC) May 30 from ...

White House directs NASA to develop lunar time standard Original Publication Date: 2024-04-03 01:52 White House policy calls for new time standard for use on cislunar missions. New time standard based on Coordinated Universal Time on Earth but adapted to moon. Policy provides little technical ...

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 ...

Belgium signs Artemis Accords Original Publication Date: 2024-01-24 00:52 Belgium is the 34 th country overall, and first so far in 2024, to sign the document. The Artemis Accords outline best practices for responsible behavior in space exploration. Non-binding document describes procedures ...

Satellogic gets NOAA license for move to the United States Original Publication Date: 2023-11-22 00:04 Satellogic has received a remote sensing license in the United States. The license covers 36 sub-meter resolution satellites already in low Earth orbit. It is Satellogic’s first such license ...

Jupiter-3 deploys solar arrays and antennas in orbit Original Publication Date: 2023-11-21 02:12 EchoStar’s Jupiter-3, the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite, is performing as expected. Maxar Technologies built the nine metric ton Ka-band satellite and supplied its solar ...

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 ...