German satellite launch company Isar Aerospace has raised US$165 million in a Series C round. The new injection of funds comes at a a fortuitous time for the startup, as it prepares for the inaugural flight of its launch vehicle Spectrum in the second half of 2023....
South Korean company INNOSPACE has launched a sub-orbital rocket from the Alcântara Launch Center, Brazil. The mission took place at 1752 GMT on 19 March and saw the Hanbit-TLV vehicle fly on a sub-orbital trajectory. The mission was primarily intended to test a...
Arianespace has won a contract for up to three Vega C launches for IRIDE, the Italian government’s Earth observation constellation. The European Space Agency (ESA), acting on behalf of the Italian government, signed a contract with the French company for at least two...
Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket and deployed two Capella Space radar imaging satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The vehicle lifted off from the company’s launch site on Wallops Island, Virginia, at 22:38 GMT on 16 March, five days after its...
At the Launcher Roundtable at SATELLITE 2023 Arianespace CEO, Stéphane Israël, talked about his company’s activities for the coming years. He outlined what Arianespace expected to achieve this year: the launch of the major ESA interplanetary science ...
During the SATELLITE 2023 Tuesday opening session the chief executives of Eutelsat, Viasat, Globalstar, and Intelsat, were joined by the CEO of upcoming launch provider Relativity Space, Tim Ellis. His presence provided a viewpoint from a differing orbit to that of...
