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Electron KS launches a pair of BlackSky satellites from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
At 1241 GMT on 2 April 2022, an Electron KS rocket was successfully launched from the Onenui luanch station in the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. The launch carried a pair of BlackSky Global satellites initially into a an elliptical transfer orbit. After a second...
Newspace fundraising for Pixxel and Synspective in March
Pixxel Space an Indian newspace company announced the closing of a Series A funding round on 28 March. This raised US$25m and included Seraphim Space Investment as a participant. Also in March Synspective Inc, Japan, reported that it had completed a Series B round of...
Suborbital space: New Shepard NS-20 launches six more space travellers
On 31 March a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket and capsule on flight NS-20 launched from the Earth ("Launch Site One" in West Texas) at 1358 GMT on 31 March. It carried six space travellers. All six (five fare paying) humans were safely recovered to Earth in their...
NASA orders more ISS cargo flights from Northrop Grumman and SpaceX
NASA has upped the number of cargo missions as part of its CRS-2 contract originally signed in 2016, from 20 to 32 with all to take place before 2026. The 12 extra flights have gone to Northrop Grumman (six on the Antares-launched Cygnus) and SpaceX (six on the Falcon...
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks US spaceflight record as he returns to Earth with two cosmonauts on Soyuz MS-19…meanwhile China drops off its freighter from its space station
While Roscosmos rather cruelly joked that it might leave him in space after US protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the end NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a former US Army Colonel, returned to Earth on board the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft on 30 March 2021....
Long March 11 launches three radar calibration satellites for China
China successfully Launched a Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0229 GMT on 30 March. The rocket was carrying three spacecraft, Tianping 2A, 2B and 2C, which will be used for radar calibration.
Greg Wyler’s new constellation project secures seed funding and launch for first demo sats
Noted space industry entrepreneur Greg Wyler (whose track record in this field includes founding the O3b and OneWeb projects) has secured seed funding of US$50 million for his next constellation aimed at bridging the digital divide. E-Space, of which Wyler is Founder...
Long March 6A makes its launch debut
China successfully launched a 50 m long Long March 6A (CZ-6A) launch vehicle built by SAST from Taiyuan launch site in China at 0950 GMT on 29 March 2022. The launch was the maiden flight of the launch vehicle which uses a two YF-100 engine core and single YF-100...
Terran Orbital completes SPAC merger and earlier received 42 sat order from US SDA
Terran Orbital Corporation (Terran Orbital) announced that it had completed its SPAC merger on 25 March and expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on 28th. The transaction saw it merge with the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC),...
SES orders its second Space Inspire satellite from Thales Alenia Space
SES ordered its second Space Inspire software-defined GEO satellite from Thales Alenia Space on 28 March. It is to be a dual-band Ku- and C-band satellite and is planned to replace the NSS-12 unit located at 57 degrees East. This new satellite is set to be called...
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