Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 lands on the moon
An Indian spacecraft landed on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and…
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Lockheed Martin Selected To Deliver 36 Small Satellites To Advance Space Development Agency’s Communications Network
The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a firm-fixed price agreement valued at approximately $816 million to build 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL)…
Lockheed Martin Selected To Develop Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft
Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket…
Bartolomeo – The Easy Way of Bringing Payloads to the ISS
‘When it comes to making access to Space easier and more affordable, why not resort to an established infrastructure that already exists?’ This is one…
SYRACUSE 4B secure military communications satellite launched
The SYRACUSE 4B communications satellite, built by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space, has been successfully launched from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,…
Successful launch for Euclid spacecraft
Toulouse, 1 July 2023 – The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid science spacecraft has been successfully launched from Kennedy Space Centre. A high-precision 1.2m diameter…
Virgin Galactic completes first commercial rocket plane flight to space
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico, June 29 (Reuters) – A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico…
Cryosat-2 and Copernicus satellites: unlocking climate action
The ever-evolving aerospace technology for Earth observation enables scientists like Anna Hogg to measure the speed of ice melting in the polar regions and provide…
Lockheed Martin To Collaborate With U.S. Army To Improve Space-Enabled Defense Systems
Lockheed Martin signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) to advance Beyond…
NASA, Rocket Lab Launch First Pair of Storm Observing CubeSats
Two NASA CubeSats designed to study tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons, are in orbit after successfully launching at 1 p.m. Monday, NZST (9 p.m….
Blue marble sparkles: Airbus-built HOTBIRD 13G satellite provides colourful selfie
Eighth Airbus-built full-electric satellite joins twin in orbit for Eutelsat The Airbus-built Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G satellite has reached its geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above us….
SpaceX rocket explodes shortly after launch
The largest rocket ever made, called Starship, took to the air for the first time today. The rocket from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company,…