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Blue Origin reschedules orbital debut of New Glenn rocket, then re-reschedules it
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Over the course of just a few hours today, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture made two adjustments to the schedule for launching its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time. At first, Blue Origin said…
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Launch Roundup: New Glenn and Starship headline a week dominated by SpaceX missions
SpaceX dominated this week’s launch manifest with two Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight of its Starship rocket. The two Falcon 9 missions will see the launches of a Transporter rideshare mission, and two Moon landers. Blue Origin’s New Glenn achieved orbit on Thursday morning following the scrub of its maiden flight attempt on…
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Comtech Shakes Up Leadership Again: Ratigan is Out, Ken Traub Takes the Helm
Less than three months after naming a new CEO, Comtech Telecommunications is going through another leadership shakeup. The company’s board named Ken Traub as president and CEO on Jan. 13, effective immediately. The changes came as the satellite ground technology company reported its first quarter results for fiscal year 2025, with a 24% decline in…
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Technical snag forces another delay for the first orbital launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital launch of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket due to a stubborn technical glitch. The launch…
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An icy vent line may have caused Blue Origin to scrub debut launch of New Glenn
COCOA BEACH, Fla.—With 45 minutes left in a three-hour launch window, Blue Origin scrubbed its first attempt to launch the massive New Glenn rocket early on Monday morning. Throughout the window, which opened at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC), the company continued to reset the countdown clock as launch engineers worked out technical issues with…
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Redwire Delivers Fourth Pair of ROSA Wings for ISS Power Supply
Redwire Corporation delivered the fourth pair of Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings for the International Space Station (ISS), also known as the IROSA program, the company announced Jan. 13. The fourth pair of wings were developed in partnership with Boeing’s Spectrolab and delivered through a follow-on contract awarded in June 2022. The IROSA wings completed…
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Blue Origin scrubs first New Glenn launch attempt due to “vehicle subsystem issue”
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station prior to the rocket’s inaugural flight on the NG-1 mission. Image: Blue Origin Update 3:20 a.m. EST (0820 UTC): Blue Origin scrubbed the launch. Blue Origin is preparing to step into a new chapter of rocketry, by debuting its…
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NRO and U.S. Space Force Successfully Launch NROL-153 Mission with SpaceX Falcon 9
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-153 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 9, 2025, at 10:53 p.m. EST. This mission is the seventh launch…
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Dragonfly Aerospace and LatConnect 60 Partners for Advanced SWIR Imaging Satellites
Dragonfly Aerospace, a leading provider of high-performance electro-optical payloads and satellite solutions, is thrilled to announce its partnership with Australian Earth observation company, LatConnect 60. The collaboration will see Dragonfly supply three state-of-the-art Chameleon SWIR (shortwave Infrared) imagers to LatConnect 60 for their upcoming SWIRSAT satellites, scheduled for launch in 2026. LatConnect 60 is supported…