In a flurry of activity, SpaceX performed three separate Falcon 9 launches in less than three days. At 1609 GMT on 17 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket carried 53 Starlink v1.5 Group 4-19 communications satellites to orbit for SpaceX itself. The mission...
The USSF (United States Space Force) Space Systems Command has formally allocated the eight launches from the previous National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 launch service agreement signed in August 2020 with United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX. The...
The Russian Ministry of Defence has successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0803 GMT on 19 May 2022. The rocket is thought to have launched an electro-optical area surveillance satellite to a lower Earth Orbit (LEO)...
On 3 May 2022 the Defence & Aerospace arm of Norwegian international technology group, Kongsberg Gruppen, contracted with NanoAvionics, Lithuania, to supply them with three maritime surveillance microsatellites. These satellites are intended to enhance...
The Cosmos 2555 (Kosmos 2555) Russian military codenamed satellite, which was launched from Plesetsk on 29 April by an Angara 1.2 rocket, has not performed any manoeuvres in its very low Sun-synchronous orbit. Analysts now think that the satellite, which is suspected...
US defence contractor CACI International will launch two demonstration payloads on a York Space built satellite as part of an experiment in military use of space technologies. The satellite will be placed into a low Earth obit (LEO) in January 2023 and carried by the...
