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Rocket Lab Boosts Revenue 7% Year-Over-Year in Q3
Rocket Lab reported a 7% year-over-year revenue increase in the third quarter of 2023, posting $67.7 million in revenue. Net loss was $40.6 million. Revenue of $67.7 million was near the high-end of Rocket Lab’s prior revised guidance of $66 million to $68 million. Sequentially, revenue increased 9%, primarily due to revenue from Rocket Lab’s…
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on 29th resupply mission to the Space Station
A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the CRS-29 mission, sending more than 6,500 pounds of cargo and science experiments up to the International Space Station. Image: SpaceX/NASA Update 9:10 p.m. EST (0210 UTC): Successful liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon separation. Rodents, water filters and a laser relay are…
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Northrop Grumman Completes Thermal Vacuum Tests for Arctic Region Satcom Program
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed Thermal Vacuum tests on the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM), a two-satellite constellation designed to deliver broadband communications to the Northern polar region for the U.S. Space Force and Space Norway. Each Northrop Grumman-built satellite carries a Ka-band payload for Viasat and an X-band payload for the Norwegian Ministry…
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BlackSky Narrowly Posts its First Profit in Q3 Results
BlackSky posted a net income of $675,000 in the third quarter of 2023, marking the first time the company has posted a positive net income. However, CFO Henry Dubois noted on Wednesday’s call with investors that this was primarily due to accounting treatment of the company’s warrant liability exposure. Discounting warrant gains and losses, BlackSky’s…
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If the next Starship makes it through staging, you can call that a win
SpaceX will have answers to some burning questions in the first three minutes of the next Starship test flight. Did the upgrades to the Starship launch pad in Texas hold up to the rocket’s powerful thrust? Are the rocket’s Raptor engines more reliable than they were on the first Starship test flight in April? And…
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DoD Signs a Blanket Purchase Agreement for SES’s O3b System
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded SES’s government subsidiary a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for the O3b system. The award announced Wednesday is a single award BPA to SES Space & Defense worth up to $270 million over five years. Under the contract, SES will provide low-latency, high-throughput satellite services from its satellites in…
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ESA’s Ambitious Zero Debris Charter Sets a New Course for Space Sustainability
More satellites were launched in the last few years than the entire six decades of space exploration. 130 million pieces of space debris larger than a millimeter orbit Earth, threatening satellites now and in the future. Once a week, a satellite or rocket body reenters uncontrolled through our atmosphere. Behaviors in space have to change. …
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Summit cites Paradigm Shift for European Spaceflight
The ESA-EU Space Summit at Seville/Spain on November 6/7 focused on the need to evolve the future of the European Space Agency (ESA) and European spaceflight in general. Europe’s space ambitions are moving into a “paradigm shift,” as noted by Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, as Europe deals with a gap in capability between…
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Solestial Awarded NASA SBIR Ignite Contracts to Develop Next Generation Solar Arrays
Solestial, the solar energy company for space, announced that it has been awarded $849,954 for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The winning proposal titled, “Next Generation Silicon Based Solar Arrays for Space Stations and Other Permanent Space Infrastructure,” comes on the heels of a…
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The European Space Agency may have a bullying problem
Alex has been passionate about space exploration since her childhood. (Pseudonyms are used, and some genders are obscured throughout this piece, as sources requested anonymity to speak freely.) She considered pursuing astronomy as a career but ended up on a different professional path, one that ultimately led to a job at the European Space Agency…