Tag: Launch
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Rocket Lab Unveils Ocean Platform for Neutron Rocket Landings at Sea
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, has revealed details about ‘Return On Investment’, the ocean landing platform for Neutron missions returning to Earth. ‘Return On Investment’ is a 400 ft (122 m) modified barge that will be customized to enable landings at sea for its reusable Neutron rocket. Modifications…
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SpaceX readies a redo of last month’s ill-fated Starship test flight
SpaceX plans to launch the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket as soon as Monday after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The test flight will be a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to achieve on the previous Starship launch in January, when the rocket broke apart and showered debris…
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Phison and Lonestar Partner to Launch First Lunar Data Center Hardware
Phison Electronics, a leading innovator in NAND flash technologies has partnered with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., a leader in lunar infrastructure and Resiliency as a Service (RaaS), to support successful lunar mission launch, Lonestar’s Freedom Mission. The Freedom payload utilizes SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and is set to reach the lunar surface on March 4th,…
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Maxar Space Systems Delivers Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Satellite to L3Harris
Maxar Space Systems, leading satellite manufacturer and provider of advanced solutions for space exploration and operations, announced it has delivered the first of 16 spacecraft buses to L3Harris Technologies to support the Space Development Agency (SDA)’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Leveraging their Maxar 300 platform, Maxar Space Systems designed and developed this purpose-built bus…
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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
Welcome to Edition 7.33 of the Rocket Report! Phew, what a week for Rocket Lab! The company released a bevy of announcements in conjunction with its quarterly earnings report Thursday. Rocket Lab is spending a lot of money to develop the medium-lift Neutron rocket, and as we’ll discuss below, a rocket landing platform and a new…
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Blue Origin Reveals NS-31 Crew For New Shepard’s 11th Human Flight
Blue Origin announced the six people flying on its NS-31 mission. The crew includes Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, who brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share…
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Teledyne Launches Two Imaging Sensors in Sun-Synchronous Orbit NASA Explorer Missions
Teledyne Technologies, a leading provider of advanced imaging solutions, is proud to announce that sensors from Teledyne Space Imaging will play a key role in two prestigious NASA explorer missions that are ready to launch this month. Both missions launch on the same rocket on 28 February 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA.…
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BlackSky Secures Defense Contract to Advance Space-Based Tactical ISR Satellites
BlackSky Technology Inc. won a multimillion-dollar Defense Innovation Unit Gen-3 Tactical GEOINT (TACGEO) launch integration contract that expands on early U.S. government-funded R&D efforts to build out advanced space-based tactical ISR capabilities. Under the contract, BlackSky will prepare and manage a Gen-3 satellite launch, on behalf of the customer. “BlackSky is on a mission to push…
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AST SpaceMobile Secures $43 Million Contract for US Space Development Agency
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, announced a new contract award in support of the United States Space Development Agency (SDA) through a prime contractor, with total expected revenue of $43 million. As part of the…
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Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander Separates from SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
At approximately 8:01 p.m. EST, Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander separated from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, powered on approximately 12 minutes later, and will continue its weeklong journey to the Moon. Aboard the lander is NASA Science and Technology as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Also launching as…