The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has won a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. Using an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, the mission will launch in October 2021. Launch-related costs are set to total US$148.3...
It has been reported by Reuters that Arianespace has lowered the launch price of its mainstay Ariane 5 launch vehicle, in response to fierce competition in the Asia-Pacific region from industry disruptor SpaceX. The two companies are competing for two satellite launch...
When Stratolaunch announced that it was developing its own range of launch vehicles in addition to its very large double hulled carrier aircraft, many analysts remained sceptical – mainly over the amount of money this would take. This was despite the fact that...
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has made a launch order to Rocket Lab for an Electron launch of its 150kg technology test satellite called the Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration – aka R3D2 – which will test out...
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), the launch provider and satellite project manager, has announced a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with Satellogic, a satellite operator based in Argentina and Uruguay. Under the agreement, CGWIC will launch 90...
The first example of three Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) high-resolution military reconnaissance satellites for France was launched on 19 December 2018 by an Arianespace-operated Soyuz ST-A (Fregat M). The 3,565kg CSO-1 satellite built by Airbus Space and Defence...
