Spaceflight, a couple of days ago, announced that they have started a ride-sharing scheme for its space rockets. So far Spaceflight has helped ISRO in sending over 100 spacecraft to orbits. These spacecraft were mounted on Spaceflight rockets. This April ISRO launched 21 satellites for Spaceflight in its PSLV C-45 mission including 20 Flock-4a satellites […]
A US-based company Rocket Lab has announced its plans to make its rockets reusable. Rocket Lab has announced at the Small Satellite Conference in Utah to make the first stage of its Electron rocket reusable in a significant development for the smallsat launcher market. The grand goal here is if we can capture the vehicle […]
In a teleconference held on Wednesday, members of the LightSail 2 team declared that the solar sailing mission was a success. The citizen-funded spacecraft is the highest performing solar sail to date and the first to demonstrate the ability to orbit the Earth in a controlled manner. This is a very exciting day for us […]
StarCraft Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd. successfully launched its ‘Curve One’ rocket onboard the “SQX-1 Y1” launch vehicle at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, on July 25 at 13:00 Beijing time, and delivered its the satellites and payloads to the scheduled 300-kilometer orbit with efficient accuracy. The “SQX-1 Y1” launch vehicle is a four-stage […]
In the last three years, Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), launched 239 satellites overall, amassing revenue of ₹6,289 crore. On Wednesday, the minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office, Jitendra Singh, in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, stated that the government had established the NewSpace […]
The Indian aerospace authorities have announced the postponement of their first mission to the surface of the Moon, the ‘Chandrayaan-2’, which had planned to take off on Monday to reach the south pole of the satellite, not yet explored, between days 6 and 7 of September. A technical problem has been observed in the launch […]
Aerospace firm Spire Global’s team sent dozens of small satellites aloft from Vostochny, including two supercomputing via Russian Soyuz rocket. Soyuz can fly from four launch sites worldwide: it currently has two launch pads operational at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, one each at the Plesetsk and Vostochny Cosmodromes and one at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are all set to launch six weather satellites for better weather monitoring and predictions in space and on Earth. The satellites are a joint project of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Taiwan National Space Agency that will provide more frequent high-resolution data about temperature, […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after eight years of launching the last satellite in the RISAT series began the expansion of its radar imaging satellite fleet in space with the successful placing of RISAT-2B that would enhance the country’s surveillance capabilities among others. India’s new earth observation satellite up in the sky will send […]
Jeff Bezos, the founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft while discussing the mission to the Moon. Bezos told the audience the lander would be enabled to deliver payloads to the surface of the lunar up to four smaller rovers and also shoot out satellites to […]
SpaceX confirmed that it would launch dozens of Starlink satellites in one go for May 15. SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, said the launch would carry “dozens of satellites,” adding more prototypes to the two currently in Low Earth Orbit. The Starlink project was launched in 2015 by Elon Musk, claiming that […]
The autonomous leader in building small rockets is evolving its business with a service that may well revolutionize how spacecraft are manufactured, be it by start-ups or even the military. Rocket Lab has taken its next leap announcing today, it will offer an in-house satellite platform that can be launched from its Electron vehicle. As […]
