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A French start-up Gama has contracted NanoAvionics to build its first satellite, GAMA ALPHA, a solar sail demonstration mission. The announcement released on 26 May outlines that it will be based on NanoAvionics' 6U CubeSat platform and is planned to launch in H2...
While its competitors seem determined to add ever more numbers to their proposed or under construction satellite constellations, satellite operator Telesat has bucked the trend and actually reduced the size of its planned Telesat Lightspeed ensemble. Its original plan...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1835 GMT on 25 May 2022. Transporter-5 is the fifth "Transporter" rideshare mission from SpaceX. The reusable B1061 first stage, on its eighth flight, successfully landed back to...
It has been a busy month for SpaceX and Tesla supremo Elon Musk. The world's richest man grabbed headlines at least three times in May. His move to buy Twitter, driven by a well-known fondness for the platform and his support for "free speech", resulted the magnate...