The Sir Richard Branson initiated Virgin Orbit project, having been in bankruptcy protection, is now formally at an end with the sale of its assets being announced. The four-engine Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft, dubbed Cosmic Girl, has been bought by Stratolaunch...
At 0800 GMT on 21 May China successfully launched a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mission placed three satellites into LEO for two Chinese universities: Luojia 2-01, a SAR microsatellite for Wuhan University and Aomen...
Finland’s ICEye firm has been awarded an order to develop and build five synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) equipped satelites for geospatial imagery firm Bayanat and the communications satellite operator Yahsat – both based in UAE. The plan is to build a...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 1316 GMT on 20 May 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying five Iridium-NEXT satellites (174, 177-179, & 181), fifteen OneWeb satellites (621-635) and a single OneWeb...
Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
Inmarsat, a British GEO operator being bought by Viasat, has ordered three GEO satellites from newspace entity Swissto12. These units will be based on the Swissto12 HummingSat GEO bus and will be much smaller than previous Inmarsat satellites. The deal, announced on...
