Tag: Launch
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Rocket Lab Selected to Provide Neutron Launch Services for NASA Under VADR Contract
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced a mutual agreement with NASA has been reached to include Neutron launch services to the agency through Rocket Lab’s existing VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) contract. Rocket Lab’s new medium-lift reusable rocket Neutron allows the opportunity for Rocket Lab to…
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Rocket Report: China launches refueling demo; DoD’s big appetite for hypersonics
Welcome to Edition 7.26 of the Rocket Report! Let’s pause and reflect on how far the rocket business has come in the last 10 years. On this date in 2015, SpaceX made the first attempt to land a Falcon 9 booster on a drone ship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Not surprisingly, the rocket crash-landed.…
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Rocket Lab Advances U.S. Defense with SDA’s Spacecraft Constellation Development
Rocket Lab National Security LLC, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced the successful completion of its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta (T2TL-Beta) program. This milestone marks a critical step in Rocket Lab’s mission as a prime contractor to deliver 18 advanced data…
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Redwire Cameras to Launch Onboard Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Lander for Lunar Mission
Redwire Corporation, a company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced its flight-proven camera technology will launch onboard Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander for their first mission to the Moon. Redwire delivered 12 flight cameras, a vision navigation processor, and two flight floodlights for the Blue Ghost lander. This technology will play…
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ISS National Lab Secures $650,000 in Funding for Technology Advancement in LEO
The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory is soliciting flight concepts for technology advancement that utilizes the space-based environment of the orbiting laboratory. This solicitation, “Technology Advancement and Applied Research Leveraging the ISS National Lab” is open to a broad range of technology areas, including chemical and material synthesis in space, translational medicine, in-space edge…
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BAE Systems Secures $347 Million NGA’s NERVE Contract to Modernize GEOINT Library
In 2024, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded BAE Systems a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity $347 million contract for NERVE, the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Enterprise Repository and Virtual Environment program. NERVE will modernize the NSG Consolidated Library (NCL), which includes expanding it from a physical data center to cloud-based data services. The NCL is…
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Pale Blue and D-Orbit to Test World-First 1U+ Water Ion Thruster in Orbit
Pale Blue has announced that the company will demonstrate the world-first 1U+ Water Ion Thruster (PBI) on D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier twice in 2025. By adding space heritage multiple times, Pale Blue will diversify its offering to better meet the rising demand on orbit control and debris mitigation for small satellite missions with its ground-breaking…
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Rocket Lab Partners with Kratos to Conduct Hypersonic Test Launches for DoD with HASTE
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it has been selected to be a member of the team, led by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, awarded a five-year OTA contract for the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) 2.0 under Task Area 1. The total potential value of…
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VIAVI Provides Precision Components for NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission
VIAVI Solutions Inc. announced its contribution to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. Leveraging its decades of leadership in precision thin film optical coatings for mission-critical space applications, VIAVI supplied a precision order sorting filter for the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. A vital instrument on the spacecraft, MISE is designed…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Launch Targeting No Earlier Than January 10
Blue Origin‘s New Glenn vehicle’s inaugural mission (NG-1) is targeting no earlier than Friday, January 10, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 UTC). NG-1 is the company’s first National Security Space Launch certification flight. The payload is Blue Origin’s Blue…