At 1009 GMT on 15 December 2020, a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket was launched into a near polar Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) from the Onenui station on the Mahia peninsula in New Zealand. On board was a small 150 kg synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite...
In a award which was received in October but only made public on 10 December, Lockheed Martin gets the go ahead for the second pair of GPS 3F satellites. This construction contract is valued at US$511 million for the two units. Lockheed Martin was selected as the...
On 9 December American missions-as-a-service company Loft Orbital announced a new customer for its upcoming YAM-6 mission. Hydrosat Inc, based in Washington D.C. (which also has offices in Luxembourg) has contracted with Loft Orbital to fly its VanZyl-1 payload on the...
At 1730 GMT on 13 December 2020, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket launched the digital broadcasting satellite SXM-7 (Sirius XM-7) for Sirius XM from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida, USA. The reusable first stage B1051 on its seventh flight was landed...
The NRO L-44 (ORION 10) spacecraft of the US National Reconnaissance Office, was finally launched by an upgraded Delta IV Heavy rocket at 0109 GMT on 11 December 2020. The launch, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) took place from Pad 37B at Cape Canaveral,...
Arianespace has received the launch contract on 7 December for four CO3D Earth observation satellites. They are to be orbited by the upcoming delayed Vega C rocket – built by Avio, Italy. The launch is planned to take place in 2023, and will see the four...
