Satellogic, the South American newspace company, announced on 4 May a new contract with SpaceX to launch 68 of its Earth observation satellites on an unspecified number of future launches. These missions are set to begin in “early 2023”. The parties are currently...
Paris-based satellite operator Prométhée have instructed mission integrator NanoAvionics to construct its first nanosatellite, as the French start-up begins progress on its plans to build a constellation of nanosatellites for Earth observation. ProtoMéthée-1 is...
Japanese newspace company, iQPS Inc, has contracted with American launch provider Virgin Orbit for the launch of its fifth satellite. iQPS is building a 36 unit fleet of SAR-equipped (Synthetic Aperture Radar) small satellites to provide high-resolution imagery with...
At 0942 GMT on 6 May a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida carrying 53 Starlink satellites. The payloads were successfully bulk deployed in to their deployment orbit in LEO at around an hour after launch. They will now undergo...
A Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, at 0238 GMT on 5 May. The mission carried eight Jilin-1 Earth Observation satellites to a low Earth orbit (LEO). The primary payload was the larger Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01C...
Riyadh-based fleet operator Arabsat has ordered the construction of Arabsat-7A, its first fully flexible Software-Defined Satellite (SDS), after signing a contract with Thales Alenia Space on 29 April. Arabsat-7A will replace the majority of the existing C- and...
