Space News for Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Rocket Lab’s next Electron Launch will be the 6th mission for iQPS – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-10-20 00:00 Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) The ...

Space News for Wednesday, July 02, 2025

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches MTG-Sounder satellite to address air pollution and extreme weather events + ESA + EUMETSAT – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-07-01 00:00 The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission ...

Space News for Wednesday, July 03, 2024

EnduroSat gets order for Botswana’s debut satellite Original Publication Date: 2024-07-03 06:00 Botsat-1 would have a hyperspectral sensor to gather ground composition data. Botswana is the world’s top producer of diamonds by value. The sector accounts for just under a third of the country’s ...

Space News for Tuesday, November 21, 2023

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 ...

Space News for Thursday, June 29, 2023

SpaceShipTwo to demonstrate research capabilities on first commercial flight Original Publication Date: 2023-06-29 00:52 Virgin Galactic set to conduct its first commercial SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceflight. The Galactic 01 mission will carry three Italian payload specialists to perform a set ...