Tag: Launch
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Momentus’ Vigoride-6 Spacecraft Arrives at SpaceX Launch Site for Its Launch
Momentus announced that its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month. The Momentus team completed final flight preparations, and the Vigoride-6 OSV is integrated with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The priorities of this mission…
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HawkEye 360 to Begin Operations of Sixth Satellite Cluster
HawkEye 360 announced the beginning of operations of its Cluster 6 satellites. The rapidly growing constellation can collect up to 24 times per day over a region of interest, as often as once every hour. The enhanced payloads and an additional ground station optimize the speed for delivering increased quantity and quality of data to customers…
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Intelsat To Operate First Space-Based Air Pollution Monitoring Space Instrument
Intelsat has completed testing of the operational and data collection system for the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent every daylight hour at high resolution. The new UV-visible spectrometer, operated by Intelsat for NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will be hosted on the Intelsat 40e (IS-40e) satellite…
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Good weather expected for Relativity Space’s late-night launch attempt
Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket on Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space Relativity Space will try a third time to launch a 3D-printed rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday night, and weather forecasters predict a 95% chance of favorable conditions for the late-night test flight. The three-hour launch window at…
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Virgin Orbit pauses operations amid financial troubles
Virgin Orbit’s carrier aircraft, a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, takes off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California with a LauncherOne rocket under its left wing. Credit: Virgin Orbit Virgin Orbit announced last week it is pausing operations after sustained financial losses, furloughing most of the company’s approximately 750 employees as officials seek…
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NASA and Axiom Space Sign Mission Order for Third Private Astronaut Mission to ISS
NASA and Axiom Space have signed a mission order for the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than November 2023 from the agency’s NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) is expected to spend 14 days docked to the space station. A specific launch…
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Magellan Announce Redwing Space Domain Awareness Microsatellite Contract with Canada Government
Magellan has been awarded a Redwing Space Domain Awareness Microsatellite contract from the Government of Canada to design, build, launch, and operate the Redwing microsatellite. Directed by the Department of National Defence’s science and technology organization, Defence Research and Development Canada (“DRDC”), the $15.8 million Redwing contract represents the next generation of spacecraft technology for…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites from California
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the Starlink 2-8 mission with 52 Starlink internet satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX Mission Audio”] [tabbyending]
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Firefly Awarded NASA Contract Worth $112 Million to Deliver Multiple Lunar Payloads
Firefly was awarded a $112 million NASA contract payload Delivery to Lunar Orbit and the Far Side of the Moon in 2026. Firefly’s second lunar mission task order won under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload (CLPS) initiative utilizes its Blue Ghost spacecraft and offers additional customer opportunities for payload delivery, orbital services, and sample return “Our…
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SpaceX completes launch doubleheader with sunset liftoff from Cape Canaveral
Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket launched the SES 18 and SES 19 geostationary communications satellites. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] SpaceX launched two Falcon…