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Ursa Major to Provide Hadley Rocket Engines for Vector Launch’s US National Security Mission
Ursa Major, one of America’s leading privately funded companies focused solely on rocket propulsion, announced an agreement with launch provider Vector Launch to support Vector’s recently awarded U.S. national security contract. Ursa Major will supply several 5,000-pound thrust “Hadley” engines to power the main stage of Vector-R launch vehicles to demonstrate capabilities for future missions.…
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Rocket Lab recovers booster again after launch with BlackSky satellites
An Electron rocket lifts off Friday with two BlackSky Earth-imaging satellites. Credit: Rocket Lab Two BlackSky optical Earth-imaging satellites rode an Electron launcher into orbit Friday from New Zealand, while the Electron’s first stage booster gently parachuted into the Pacific Ocean as engineers consider abandoning airborne rocket recovery in favor of ship-based retrieval and reuse.…
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SSC Launches Suborbital BROR Aurora Rocket
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has completed the launch of a new mission to research space weather. The company announced on March 23 that it launched a sounding rocket BROR was launched from the Esrange Space Center in Sweden to a suborbital altitude of 240 km where it created an auroral light show on the evening…
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SpaceBridge Logs Deals With NexTenna and SkyNet de Colombia
VSAT manufacturer SpaceBridge signed new deals for its satellite equipment with NexTenna and SkyNet de Colombia, the company announced this month. Antenna company NexTenna is partnering with SpaceBridge to develop a new line of wireless communication systems targeting IoT, mobility IoT, broadband, and fixed broadband solutions for consumer, enterprise, and military services. NexTenna plans to…
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OneWeb constellation nearly complete despite 36 satellites still stuck in Baikonur
A row of OneWeb satellites attached to a payload dispenser ahead of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. Credit: OneWeb When the war started in February 2022, there was another set of 36 OneWeb satellites mounted and ready to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 4, 2022. However, Russia’s space chief at the time had requested…
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Small number of Virgin Orbit employees will return tomorrow to work on next mission
Virgin Orbit returning small number of employees to work In an FCC filing, Virgin Orbit announced the return of some of its furloughed staff starting tomorrow. Space News reports a small number of staff will make the return and not a large number of employees. Virgin Orbit’s filling was brief and stated while some of…
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Boeing’s Powerful Satellite Platform Delivered to Network Provider Viasat
Boeing delivered the most powerful satellite platform the company has built to date, the 702MP+, a custom-designed spacecraft for network provider Viasat. “Working with Boeing, we’re very excited to complete the ViaSat-3 Americas and bring us one step closer to providing higher speeds, more bandwidth, and greater value to our customers on a global scale whether…
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Relativity gets Terran 1 3D-printed rocket into space on first launch, falling short of orbit
Second stage anomaly cuts Terran 1 from orbital glory Lifting off just before midnight EST after a rocky countdown of upper-level winds and (once again) boaters wandering inside the exclusion zone, Relativity became the first company to launch a 3D-printed orbital rocket to space. After an almost hour-and-a-half delay, all parts of the Terran 1’s…
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Deputy Commerce Secretary Graves Debuts Updates to Export Control Regulations for the Space Industry
The U.S. Department of Commerce is updating export control rules in regards to foreign space launch vehicles that could lead to potentially “hundreds of millions of dollars” in new exports of U.S. satellite and satellite components, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves announced March 15 at SATELLITE 2023. The U.S. government reviewed how Missile Technology…
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Benchmark Space Systems Ramps Up Production of Metal Plasma and Bi-Propellant Thrusters
Laser-focused on delivering mobility without compromise, Benchmark Space Systems announced that it has signed contracts for nearly two dozen new electric metal plasma thrusters (MPTs), with some set to play a key role in upcoming, unnamed in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) satellite docking demonstration missions. The bulk of Benchmark’s first MPT orders will be…