Tag: launch

Yahsat Government Solutions (YGS), a subsidiary of Yahsat, has secured a significant new contract with the UAE government worth over $5 billion. The deal, announced on September 22nd, grants YGS an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) to provide satellite capacity and...

Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a contract with Leidos to launch four HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) missions. The missions, scheduled across 2024 and 2025, will lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Rocket Lab was selected by Leidos to provide hypersonic test la

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) lifted off on Sept.10 at 8:47 a.m. EDT from Space Launch...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2023
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a new launch services agreement with a confidential customer for a HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) mission from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in 2024. The contract signing with a new customer came just days after Rocket Lab successfully launched the

Rocket Lab USA has recently announced a block buy deal for five Electron launches with BlackSky, a provider of real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring services. This partnership solidifies Rocket Lab as the primary launch provider for BlackSky's constellation,...

Thales Alenia Space has secured new contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the ground mission segment and system engineering activities of Galileo Second Generation (GSG). The contracts are valued at 300 million euros ($333 million). Additionally, Thales...

Danish Graphene is a developer and manufacturer of functional graphene for industrial applications incubated in ESA BIC Denmark to develop graphene-enhanced thermal adhesives to increase performance and lifetime of satellites. Founded in 2020, it has worked to develop a scalable...

Millennium Space Systems has successfully completed a program design review (PDR) for a missile tracking satellite for the U.S. Space Force, according to an announcement made by the company on Wednesday. The PDR was completed in just four months,...

Muon Space, a space technology company, has been granted an option to expand its contract with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC) to gather ionospheric data through its MuSat-2 satellite mission. The Department of Defense (DoD) will...

iRocket, the Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc., has been granted an additional $1.8 million in funding by the U.S. Space Force to further develop its reusable rocket engine. This funding comes as part of a Phase II SBIR contract and...