Tag: Launch
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SES Successfully Launches Ninth and Tenth O3b mPOWER Satellites
The latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:12 pm local time, SES announced. These two new satellites enhance global coverage and bring incremental capacity to scale up services provided by SES’s second-generation medium…
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Open Cosmos: Broadening Space Access with Smart Satellite Missions and Shared Constellations
Open Cosmos, Founded in 2015 and headquartered at the Harwell Space Campus in the UK, is transforming how Earth observation data is accessed and applied, offering end-to-end satellite mission services from design and build through to launch, operations and data delivery. With a firm focus on sustainability, its ESG principles guide efforts in reducing space…
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SEOPS Integrates EPIC Athena on Upcoming TRACERS Mission with SpaceX
SEOPS, a leading provider of responsive launch and space mission services, announced it is providing the capacity, mission management and integration services for EPIC Athena, a 110 kg pathfinder spacecraft funded by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Defense’s U.S. Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC). Also Read:…
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Dutch Partners Announce Construction of TANGO Climate Satellite
ISISPACE, TNO, SRON, and KNMI announced the construction of the Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse gas Observers (TANGO). This is a satellite system from the European Space Agency (ESA) that measures global greenhouse gas emissions of CO2 and methane at the source level. TANGO builds on the successful TROPOMI satellite mission. TANGO takes a major step forward:…
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Dyndrite and Ursa Major Signs Multi-Year Deal for High-Performance Rocket Engines
Dyndrite, the company behind the GPU-accelerated computation engine powering next-generation digital manufacturing solutions, announced a multi-year licensing agreement with the aerospace and defense company Ursa Major. Under the agreement, Ursa Major has chosen Dyndrite LPBF Pro to drive its metal additive manufacturing initiatives, supporting material development, part qualification, and the production of high-performance rocket propulsion…
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SpaceX, NASA launch TRACERS to study Earth’s magnetic field
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California, carrying a series of investigative missions and technology demonstrators designed to enable new capabilities and reduce time to launch, with several of them fielded under various NASA programs. NASA’s TRACERS mission and other payloads launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East…
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EUMETSAT Assumes Control of Europe’s First Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder Satellite
After more than two weeks of complex manoeuvring, precise positioning and meticulous checks, EUMETSAT assumed control of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) spacecraft on 18 July 2025, the latest addition to its fleet of geostationary meteorological satellites. Following MTG-S1’s successful launch on 1 July 2025, the satellite, which carries the Infrared Sounder (IRS)…
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Avio Designated As Launch Service Provider for the VEGA Launcher
With the approval of the new Launcher Exploitation Declaration (“LED”) at ESA headquarters in Paris, a key milestone has been achieved in the redefinition of Europe’s launch system. The declaration officially designates Avio as the launch service provider for the Vega launcher family. For the first time, an Italian company is entrusted with providing access-to-space services,…
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Astroscale U.S Partners with NASA to Advance On-Orbit Servicing for National Security
Astroscale U.S, a leading provider of on-orbit services and logistics across all orbits, has signed a reimbursable Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to test rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) capabilities of the Astroscale U.S Refueler spacecraft. Astroscale U.S will test its Refueler at GSFC in preparation for Astroscale U.S.’s…
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L3Harris Technologies Introduces Launched Effects Vehicles to Advance U.S Multi-Domain Edge
L3Harris Technologies debuted a pack of launched effects vehicles, demonstrating the company’s ability to respond to the U.S. Department of Defense’s urgent need for advanced, capable, and affordable munitions it can employ across services and domains. Red Wolf and Green Wolf are the first in L3Harris’ expanding family of multi-role vehicles that can easily integrate…