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NanoAvionics announces shared satellite mission to showcase new platform
Lithuanian small sat manufacturer NanoAvionics plans to showcase its new MP42 microsatellite platform with a multi-payload mission next year. It is planned that the mission will ride to orbit as part of a SpaceX Transporter rideshare launch in 2022. The new...
China launches Gaofen 3-02 SAR satellite
China launched a follow-on radar satellite to LEO from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 22 November 2021. The mission utilised a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket and carried the Gaofen 3-02 satellite to a near 750 km sun-synchronous orbit. The Gaofen 3 series are...
US Space Force orders three new GPS 3F spacecraft from Lockheed Martin
The US Space Force has confirmed an order signed by the US Air Force under an overarching multisatellite agreement for three new GPS 3F spacecraft for the US military/civil navigation satellite constellation. The contract awarded to Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer...
New Prichal docking module is launched on Soyuz to International Space Station (Updated)
Russia successfully launched the Prichal docking module (aka Uzlovoy Module) on a Soyuz 2-1b from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 1306 GMT on 24 November towards the International Space Station (ISS). For the Prichal module Roscosmos is conducting a...
Newspace fundraising: Series B rounds for Fleet Space and Chinese ADA Space, more seed money for Hydrosat, large Series F for Astroscale, and Anuvu secures extra money from investors (Updated)
Fleet Space Technologies (Fleet), an Australian newspace company developing an IoT CubeSat-constellation has closed a Series B round of financing. The funding round raised an additional US$26.4 million for the company according to its 17 November announcement. Fleet...
NASA launches DART asteroid deflection mission
Hollywood’s disaster movie genre has long been keen on the theme of the Earth being threatened by the imminent impact of a large object – usually an asteroid – from space. Examples include Meteor (1979), Armageddon (1998) and Deep Impact (1998). In the movies, the...
Rocket Lab to acquire spacecraft separation system company Planetary Systems Corp
Continuing a string of purchases, newspace launch provider Rocket Lab is set to acquire Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC). Rocket Lab, which is based in the USA, announced the agreement to purchase Maryland-based PSC on 15 November. PSC is a designer and...
Other International Space Station events: Cygnus NG-16 (Ellison Onizuka) departs without fuss
The space cargo vessel Cygnus NG-16 (Ellison Onizuka) was "unberthed" from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module of the International Space Station (ISS) whilst attached to the Canadarm 2 robotic arm on 20 November at approximately 1300 GMT. Cygnus NG-16 was the...
China launches Long March 4B with Gaofen 11-03 aboard (Updated)
At 0151 GMT on 20 November 2021, a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket was successfully launched from the Taiyuan launch base in China. Aboard the launch was a Gaofen 11-03 spacecraft which is thought to be a civilian optical Earth imaging/remote sensing satellite but which...
Astra Space Rocket 3 series finally makes it on fourth orbital attempt
After three previous failures, the fourth orbital attempt of the privately funded Astra Space Rocket 3 series finally made it into orbit. It was launched from the Kodiak Island based Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska at 0604 GMT on 20 November 2021. The launch,...
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