While start-up satellite firm Sky and Space Global has a formal launch contract with Virgin Orbit and an exploratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) contracts with China’s CGWIC, it has just signed a new MoU with Arianespace to launch 88 satellites on...
At 1703 GMT on 4 April, four O3b satellites for the European SES satellite operator were launched by a Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the “European Space Port’s” Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. The rocket was operated by Arianespace....
Lifting-off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 0151 GMT on 22 March, an Arianespace Vega light-lift launch vehicle carried the Italian-made PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) hyper-spectral Earth-Imaging satellite to a sun-synchronous low Earth...
A Soyuz ST-B with a Fregat M upper stage successfully launched OneWeb 0006-0012 satellites at 2137 GMT on 27 February. The launch took place from the Sinnamary Launch Centre, near Kourou in French Guiana. The satellites will form part of the OneWeb constellation which...
At a press conference marking the opening of its new new headquarters in Forres, Scotland, start-up launch provider Orbex revealed an engineering prototype of the new upper stage of its two-stage Prime launch vehicle. It also announced that the small satellite...
Space News reports that German launch arranger Exolaunch (previously known as ECM) has ordered multiple missions of the Vigoride delivery spacecraft/space tug from the Momentus firm under a US$6 million contract. While not specified, the contract implies that five...
