As previously flagged by Seradata Space Intelligence (SSI), one possible challenge to reusable launch vehicles is to produce a cheap to build and operate single-stage-to-orbit expendable rocket as proposed by the ARCA Space Corporation. The firm is preparing a 120 km...
The aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has decided to rebrand and reconfigure its satellite bus platform offerings in the following way. The smallest bus now being offered by Lockheed Martin will be called the LM 50. This small spacecraft bus design is being developed...
Global satellite operator SES has ordered seven 702 bus/platform design satellites from Boeing to become a successor to its current O3b Medium Earth Orbit high capacity communications constellation. The new constellation is called O3b mPower and will be launched from...
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
Would-be cubesat-constellation operator Sky and Space Global have announced that they have successfully demonstrated that nano-satellites can carry narrowband voice and message telephony between recently launched test satellites. Launched in June on an Indian PSLV...
In its first showing at Cape Canaveral, Florida, a five stage version of the Minotaur IV light launch vehicle lifted off at 0604 GMT on 26 August, carrying an experimental space surveillance satellite ORS-5 (SENSORSAT PRECURSOR) to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). From its...
