Space News for Thursday, February 27, 2025

Firefly Aerospace, just 4 days from Moon landing, shows Blue Ghost – low lunar orbit Moon footage – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-02-26 00:00 Firefly Aerospace is now less than 4 days from landing on the Moon. The video, sped up by 10X, was taken about 100 km above the lunar surface. ...

Space News for Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Blue Origin’s successful human spaceflight mission NS-30 and “the life-changing impact of seeing Earth from Space” – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-02-25 00:00 NS-30 crew Blue Origin successfully completed its tenth human spaceflight and the 30th flight for the New Shepard program. The ...

Space News for Wednesday, January 22, 2025

KRYTAR Announces Compact, 2-Way MLDD Power Divider – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-21 00:00 KRYTAR’s technological advances provide excellent operating performance of this new 2-way unit. Model 6020200 covers the full frequency range from 2.0 to 20.0 GHz. The 2-way divider exhibits ...

Space News for Thursday, January 02, 2025

SpaceX’s New Year’s Eve launch of 21 Starlink smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-01 00:00 SpaceX’s last launch for the end of 2024 took place on Tuesday, December 31 at 12:39 a.m. ET. Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with ...

Space News for Monday, December 09, 2024

Orbex starting development of medium sized launch vehicle + operations going to SaxaVord – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-08 00:00 Orbex will instead launch its first rockets from SaxaVord. The decision enables the company to direct more funding to the development of a new, ...

Space News for Friday, December 06, 2024

ESA launches Copernicus Sentinel-1C aboard Vega-C from French Guiana – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-05 00:00 The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on ...

Space News for Tuesday, December 03, 2024

SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Tuesday including Direct to Cell – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-02 00:00 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is ready to launch Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Tuesday December 3 at 4:29 PM – 8:29 PM PST from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg ...

Space News for Thursday, November 21, 2024

SpaceX launches Starship’s sixth flight test including a banana as the payload – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-20 00:00 SpaceX successfully launched Starship from Texas to complete the sixth flight test. Starship’s cargo consists of a dangling banana revealing the magnitude of the ...

Space News for Wednesday, November 20, 2024

SpaceX launches Starship’s sixth flight test including a banana as the payload – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-19 00:00 SpaceX successfully launched Starship from Texas to complete the sixth flight test. Starship’s cargo consists of a dangling banana revealing the magnitude of the ...

Space News for Friday, November 08, 2024

SpaceX plans Starship’s Sixth Flight Test as early as Monday, November 18 – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-11-07 00:00 SpaceX's sixth flight test of Starship is targeted to launch as early as Monday, November 18 following the not-too-distant Fifth Flight test conducted on September 10. ...