After a competitive tendering process, the US launch provider, United Launch Services (ULA) has been awarded a US$354,811,947 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services to deliver the AFSPC-8 and AFSPC-12 satellites to their intended orbit. This contract provides...
Thailand-based start-up satellite operator mu Space Corp signed a launch contract with prospective launch provider Blue Origin at the SATELLITE 2018 conference, which took place in Washington D.C. in March. Under the contract, a New Glenn rocket will...
International Launch Services (ILS) and UK-headquartered Effective Space has announced that two of its satellite-servicing SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft will be launched into geostationary orbit in 2020 using an ILS Proton launch vehicle. This news follows Effective Space’s...
A Russian-built Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT) rocket successfully took four O3b communications satellites into Medium Earth orbit (MEO). The launch (VS18), which flew under the auspices of Arianespace, took place from the Sinnamary launch site as part of the space port near...
The Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite was successfully launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral at 0533 GMT on 6 March. The launch used a Falcon 9V1.2 FT Block 4 rocket, which was equipped with landing legs and steering grid fins so that its first stage could...
The first Russian launch of the year has taken place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, located in the far East of the country. The launch, which utilised the Soyuz 2-1A variant with an additional Fregat M upper-stage, lifted-off from the Cosmodrome at 0207 GMT on 1...
