American launch provider ULA (United Launch Alliance), announced on 27 September, that after a three-year competition it has decided on the Blue Origin BE-4 engine, over the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-1, to power their in-development Vulcan rocket’s first-stage...
Space News reports that the Tokyo-based Japanese firm ispace has ordered two rideshare launch reservations on two SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for its 450 kg Hakuto-R orbiter and for its 1,400 kg Hakuto-R lander/rover missions in 2020 and 2021. Originally ispace took...
“Arianespace is delighted to announce that Horizons 3e and Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 have been separated as planned in their targeted geostationary transfer orbit. For Ariane 5 mission No. 100, our heavyweight launcher has once more performed flawlessly....
The commercial electronic intelligence (ELINT) satellite constellation start-up company Kleos Space has formally ordered a launch to carry its satellites into orbit on an Electron rocket in mid 2019. The recently ordered multiple (number undisclosed) GomSpace-built...
The final launch of the venerable Delta II launch vehicle was made from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) into a near-polar sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. This mission was launched aboard...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed a two-launch contract with Arianespace for the launch of two of its communications satellites: GSAT-30 and GSAT-31 with GSAT-30 to fly first probably in Q4 2018. GSAT-31 will be based on an enhanced I-2K...
