NASA awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope launch services contract – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-02-21 00:00 The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price ...

Astranis to launch next four satellites on Tuesday, December 17th, via SpaceX Falcon – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-10 00:00 The launch will be on a dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Only the four Astranis satellites will be on board. They will launch into a supersync ...

NASA’s IXPE Details Shapes of Structures at Newly Discovered Black Hole Original Publication Date: 2024-12-06 13:52 NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole. The stellar-mass black hole, part of ...

Ovzon’s first broadband satellite reaches geostationary slot Original Publication Date: 2024-06-14 21:10 Ovzon 3 will enter service “within a few short weeks,” CEO says. Ovzon continues to see rising demand for the 1,500-kilogram satellite. Ovzon’s largest customer has long been the U.S. ...

Astroscale shares soar in Tokyo stock market debut Original Publication Date: 2024-06-06 04:28 Astroscale started trading on Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market at 850 yen ($5.46) per share. Company announced plans May 1 to go public, offering 20.8 million shares. Astroscale developing systems ...

Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission Original Publication Date: 2023-12-02 23:25 NASA says Hubble is in a safe mode because of a problem with one of its three operational gyroscopes. That gyro first triggered a safe mode Nov. 19 when it provided what NASA described as ...

Maxar Technologies acquired by private equity firm in $6.4 billion deal Original Publication Date: 2022-12-16 12:51 Maxar Technologies is being acquired by the private equity firm Advent International. Advent International, based in Boston, Massachusetts, is a global firm with $89 billion in ...