At 0942 GMT on 6 May a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida carrying 53 Starlink satellites. The payloads were successfully bulk deployed in to their deployment orbit in LEO at around an hour after launch. They will now undergo...
A Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, at 0238 GMT on 5 May. The mission carried eight Jilin-1 Earth Observation satellites to a low Earth orbit (LEO). The primary payload was the larger Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01C...
As part of the ramp-up towards the launching of its Kuiper mega-constellation, Amazon placed what is believed to be the largest ever set of commercial multi-launch contracts with three launch providers, Arianespace, Blue Origin and ULA, on 5 April. Officially known as...
Noted space industry entrepreneur Greg Wyler (whose track record in this field includes founding the O3b and OneWeb projects) has secured seed funding of US$50 million for his next constellation aimed at bridging the digital divide. E-Space, of which Wyler is Founder...
Terran Orbital Corporation (Terran Orbital) announced that it had completed its SPAC merger on 25 March and expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on 28th. The transaction saw it merge with the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC),...
While SpaceX representatives were speaking at the Satellite 2022 conference, Washington DC on 22 March, the company was also telling customers that it was raising the price of some services to combat inflation. Most pertinent to those in the space industry is the...
