Spaceflight Industries, the US-based rideshare organiser and launch services provider, announced on 25 June that it had signed an MoU with expectant launch provider Virgin Orbit for a dedicated LauncherOne mission in 2019. Signing with Virgin Orbit now means that...
Launch arranger Spaceflight Inc has announced that it has made bookings for three full launches on Rocket Lab’s Electron to be flown from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. The first Electron mission, scheduled for the end of 2018, will launch a BlackSky...
While its fortunes waned for a while, Firefly Aerospace has returned with a bang. Following its financial rescue, not only has it ditched the technically risky aerospike engines that it planned to use, but by going “conventional” it has managed to restore...
Lifting-off from Cape Canaveral, in the US at 0445 GMT on 4 June, a hybrid SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an communications satellite, SES-12, to a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The satellite, SES-12, is the sixth SES unit to be launched by SpaceX. It is built...
Arianespace announced on 3 May that it had been selected by SITAEL to launch the first small satellite for delivery of STRIVING services on its Small Spacecraft Mission Service Proof of Concept (SMSS POC) flight on a Vega in 2019. The flight will be flown from Kourou...
The CEO of the US/Romanian launch provider, ARCA, Dumitru Popescu has had all charges dropped against him after representing himself on a Grand Jury trial on May 11th, 2018. Popesco had been accused of a fraud after allegations were made by his ex-wife and a case...
