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Eutelsat invests an additional US$165 million in OneWeb to increase its shareholding
Doubling-down on its investment in LEO-constellation contender OneWeb, Eutelsat has agreed to contribute an additional US$165 million. This transaction will result in Eutelsat owning a 22.9 per cent stake (up from 17.6 per cent) in the company. The French FSS...
Italian Space Agency selects SpaceX to launch CSG-2 this year avoiding Vega-C delays
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has contracted with SpaceX to conduct a mission at short notice to ensure a civilian/military SAR satellite is launched this year. The satellite in question is the second COSMO SkyMed Second Generation unit known as CSG-2. This mission...
While “Captain Kirk” plans suborbital flight, Soyuz MS-19 delivers director and actress to the ISS to shoot movie
While Star Trek TV and movie "Captain Kirk" actor William Shatner, 90, has been announced as planning to fly briefly into space above the Karman line limit of 100 km aboard Blue Origin's suborbital New Glenn rocket, there are now real plans to film a different movie...
UK Space Conference 2021 heralds official new space strategy for nation even if its hopes are reduced
The United Kingdom's space conference held every two years was a more muted affair this year - pun intended - as it has been forced online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless there were some significant announcements to be had. While the official target to...
Uncertainty surrounds Long March 3B launched mystery Shiyian 10 payload which increasingly looks doomed
China conducted two launches on 27 September unfortunately however, only one of them, a Kuaizhou 1A mission carrying the Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D Earth observation satellite was a clear success. The other, which lifted-off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at a reported...
Landsat 9 has been launched to continue NASA Earth sciences project
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket has carried the NASA Landsat 9 (and four co-payloads) into low Earth orbit (LEO). The mission lifted-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, at 1812 GMT on 27 September. For this mission the Atlas V utilised...
Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket returns to flight
After a year-long hiatus following a launch failure a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket has carried out an orbital mission. The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 0619 GMT, 27 September, and placed a single satellite into LEO. The...
Rocket Lab selected to launch debris inspection satellite for Astroscale
Rocket Lab has secured another launch contract in September, this time with commercial space debris removal pioneer Astroscale. This contract is for the ADRAS-J 1 mission that Astroscale is developing for the Japanese space agency, JAXA. The mission is the first phase...
Tomorrow.io orders first two weather radar satellites from Astro Digital
Tomorrow.io an American "weather intelligence and climate security" company has ordered two small satellites from manufacturer Astro Digital. The satellites will be radar-equipped and are to be based on the Astro Digital Corvus-XL platform. Due to launch in late-2022...
BAE Systems has reached down and purchased UK newspace company In-Space Missions
In a surprise announcement UK newspace company In-Space Missions has been acquired by multinational defence and aerospace giant BAE Systems. Transaction was announced on 14 September and according to the In-Space Missions press release, is enacted "with immediate...
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