NanoAvionics a leading smallsat mission integrator and bus manufacturer, has signed a contract with thermal data provider Constellr to supply it with two of its flagship MP42 microsatellite buses. Having recently raised 10 million euros, Germany-based Constellr will use...
Orbital Assembly (OA) is announcing a new program and mission design as well as planning services for station-class hosted payloads" on the company's micro and artificial gravity space stations. "The International Space Station has a multi-year backlog of companies and...
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 05:30 pm CST, an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, successfully lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the MTG-I1 meteorological satellite and the Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36 telecommunication...
ReOrbit is a provider of satellites that can interconnect and autonomously operate in orbit with minimal dependency of the underlying hardware. As part of the demonstration of ReOrbit’s in-orbit satellite autonomy and networking, ReOrbit has signed a contract with...
French aerospace lab ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales) has signed a contract with NanoAvionics, a space mission integrator and satellite manufacturer, for the procurement of two 8U and 6U nanosat platforms, dedicated to ONERA 's FlyLab...
Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced the use of the on-demand workload manager and scheduler – Altair PBS Professional – to accelerate scientific...
ArianeGroup has received a 50-million-euro agreement from the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue the development of PHOEBUS, a super-light carbon composite upper stage demonstrator. This work will enable development of the next Ariane6 upper stage, by raising the...
OHB Sweden, a Swedish provider of small satellites, altitude & orbit control (AOCS) and propulsion subsystems and satellite mission management solutions, has signed a hardware agreement with Exolaunch for the launch of its MATS microsatellite, which is set for no earlier...
Mynaric, a leading provider of industrialized, cost-effective and scalable laser communications products, announced it will provide Northrop Grumman with optical communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Each satellite...
Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, announced an agreement with Dawn Aerospace (“Dawn”) to implement its green, chemical propulsion technology into LizzieSat™ https://youtu.be/n1Zg8naEqZc Among the novel...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, successfully launched aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with launch services managed by NASA’s Launch Service...
Arralis is pleased to announce the launch of our new Ka-band Phased Array Beam Steering Antenna at Space Tech Expo Europe. Our low profile, active Phased Array Beam Steering Antenna has many vital applications for providing satellite communications on the...
The space mobility operator Exotrail and the European launch service provider Isar Aerospace announced a multiple launch services agreement. Isar Aerospace’s launch vehicle Spectrum will launch Exotrail’s spacevan™ vehicle on several firm launches to low Earth (LEO) and geostationary transfer...
Australian rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have successfully completed the final qualification test-fire of its Sirius hybrid rocket engine, paving the way for the country's first orbital launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket next year. The Queensland-based launch company...

Launch System 2 Update

Since Astra’s founding in 2016 we’ve been on a mission to Improve Life on Earth from Space® by delivering customer payloads to orbit through frequent and reliable dedicated launches as economically as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEE3QzrtdPg Our goal with Launch System 1 was...
Since its launch seven months ago, the German Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program satellite has been busy collecting data. It has recorded more than 11.4 million square kilometres of Earth's surface – an area larger than Europe – from an altitude of...
For Redwire engineers, breaking new ground and developing innovative solutions is all in a day’s work. In 2021, Redwire engineers successfully delivered hardware for a NASA technology demonstration known as the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator,...
Striking rock formations documented by the rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet’s ancient past. For the past year, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one...