Tag: launch

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...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is configuring an Atlas V 401 rocket atop Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to carry the next polar-orbiting weather satellite into space for NOAA and NASA and perform an...

Following a successful October launch, NASA rewards SpaceWorks with an encore in May 2022 ATLANTA, April 21, 2022 – On the heels of SpaceWorks' successful Suborbital Test Vehicle (STV-2) mission last October 2021 in Madras, Oregon, NASA awarded the company...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday, April 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This launch carries three NASA astronauts – Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins – and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. This spaceflight is...

Precious Payload is excited to announce the first API software integration of their Launch.ctrl product for the space mobility company, IENAI SPACE. IENAI provides end-to-end in-space propulsion solutions, allowing engineers to intuitively design their thrusters using the open-access cloud...

Hardware for three important missions to the nation arrived at Cape Canaveral this week from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket factory aboard the R/S RocketShip for upcoming Atlas V and Delta IV Heavy launches. The ship departed the dock...

Leading launch company Virgin Orbit and European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge announce an agreement to launch the first satellite developed in Wales in summer 2022. “We at Virgin Orbit are delighted to have been chosen to move Space...

Vaya Space announced the successful launch of its hybrid rocket from Mojave, California operating under an existing FAA waiver. The suborbital flight demonstrated its hybrid rocket design using 3D printed fuel grains created from recycled thermoplastics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldAB8SDmLMo This launch paves the...

NanoAvionics, a leading smallsat manufacturer and mission integrator, confirmed the reception of signals and healthy telemetry data from all of the three satellites launched into low Earth orbit via the successful SpaceX Transporter-3 mission. The rideshare mission that went into...

On January 13, 2022, Planet's Flock 4x, consisting of 44 SuperDove satellites, was successfully launched into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. These 44 satellites will join Planet's existing fleet of roughly 200 satellites in orbit. The company launched...