Terran Orbital selected by USSF for $237 million STEP 2.0 smallsat buses contract – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-05-04 00:00 Terran Orbital is one of 12 companies awarded a position on the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract. STEP 2.0 is designed to streamline the ...

ESA welcomes inauguration of the African Space Agency – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-04-23 00:00 The African Space Agency (AfSA) is the second regional space agency after ESA. Its headquarters are in Egypt, which launched Africa’s first satellite in 1998. AfSA has the goal of ...

SpaceX sends NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts to ISS with two returning home after an unscheduled prolonged stay – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-03-14 00:00 Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s tenth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-10) to the International Space Station. Dragon will ...

SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-16 00:00 SpaceX’s Starship tore through the skies from Boca Chica, Texas with 33 out of 33 engines working to send it on it’s seventh flight test. As the ...

SpaceX now plans launch of Starship’s seventh test flight on Wednesday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-11 00:00 SpaceX plans Monday launch of Starship’s seventh test flight. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 35 minutes before liftoff on X @SpaceX. You can also ...

Blue Origin ready for the first launch of New Glenn rocket on Thursday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-05 00:00 Blue Origin concluded its test campaign and is ready to launch its New Glenn rocket, the company’s first orbital launch vehicle. The successful test campaign included ...

SpaceX launches Starlink Group 6-76 of 24 smallsats, but before the booster recovery “satellite link disconnected” – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-26 00:00 Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites, to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

Rocket Lab changes ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’ launch to Tuesday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-03 00:00 Rocket Lab will be launching ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’ Tuesday, November 5, at 02:30 AM (UTC-8), 2:30 AM PST. Launch of a yet to identified ...

OroraTech raises 25 million euros for satellite wildfire detection system Original Publication Date: 2024-10-15 09:54 Munich-based startup OroraTech has raised 25 million euros ($27.3 million) OroraTech is developing a constellation of small satellites equipped with thermal cameras. The company ...

Boeing plans more commercial crew charges Original Publication Date: 2024-10-12 07:29 Boeing expects to report pre-tax earnings charges of $2 billion on four programs. Of that $2 billion, $1.6 billion will be charged against two military aircraft programs. $400 million will be charged for ...