Iran has suffered its second orbital launch failure of the year. In January it experienced a suspected third-stage ignition failure of its larger Simorgh three-stage launch vehicle, losing the Amir Kabir 1 (Payam) satellite. Now its smaller Safir launch vehicle has...
Space News reports that German launch arranger Exolaunch (previously known as ECM) has ordered multiple missions of the Vigoride delivery spacecraft/space tug from the Momentus firm under a US$6 million contract. While not specified, the contract implies that five...
Canadian geostationary communications satellite operator, Telesat, has signed a multi-launch agreement with Blue Origin, the start up launch firm founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, for the use of its New Glenn rocket. With its 7m long fairing and its 45 metric...
SSL, the former Space Systems/Loral spacecraft construction company owned by Maxar, has decided to withdraw from its construction contract with Maxar spin-off Space Infrastructure Services LLC (SIS) to build the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS)...
An upgraded version of Japan’s Epsilon launch vehicle launched seven small satellites for various organisations. The launch took place from the Uchinora space centre in Kagoshima at 0050 GMT on 18 January 2018. The satellites launched were: RAPIS-1: a 200kg...
Maxar Technologies, the firm which was formerly known as MDA, that holds the Earth Observing firm Digitalglobe and the satellite manufacturer SSL (aka Space Systems Loral) as its main subsidiaries, has had its CEO Howard Lanch resign four months short of three years...
