Techcrunch.com reports that spacecraft manufacturer and operator Astranis has agreed to purchase a single Falcon 9 launch to carry four of its 420 kg MicroGEO small satellite bus platforms into a transfer orbit on their way to their final geostationary Earth orbital...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 1624 GMT on 1 April 2022 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. The mission, which is the fourth of its kind, is SpaceX’s latest rideshare mission aimed at carrying more satellites at lower...
NASA has upped the number of cargo missions as part of its CRS-2 contract originally signed in 2016, from 20 to 32 with all to take place before 2026. The 12 extra flights have gone to Northrop Grumman (six on the Antares-launched Cygnus) and SpaceX (six on the Falcon...
While SpaceX representatives were speaking at the Satellite 2022 conference, Washington DC on 22 March, the company was also telling customers that it was raising the price of some services to combat inflation. Most pertinent to those in the space industry is the...
NASA has outlined the Project Artemis plan to land humans back on the Moon. Having already selected SpaceX to supply its Starship-based lunar lander, NASA has released more detail into the public domain. The plan involves two Starship launches initially into low Earth...
At the Satellite 2022 conference in Washington DC, PSN (Pasifik Satelit Nusantara) of Indonesia contracted with Boeing to provide an HTS GEO satellite giving 140 Gbps of capacity over the country. The company intends that this spacecraft will complement the SATRIA-1...
