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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Launches and Begins 45-Day Transit to the Moon (UPDATE)

Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully acquired signal, and complet...

RFA receives launch licence from the UK

Augsburg, Germany – January 16th, 2025. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), a European leader in developing flexible and low-cost launch services, proudly announces that it has officially received its spac...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit

New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. New Glenn’s seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, 2025, at 2:03 a.m. EST (0703 UTC) fr...

ICEYE launches four new satellites, supporting additional customer missions

Helsinki, Finland - January 15, 2025 - ICEYE, the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operations for high-fidelity Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastro...

Varda's Second Mission, W-2, Launches with Payloads from Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA

Varda Space Industries, Inc. today announced the successful launch of its second orbital processing and reentry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX f...

ispace Announces Mission 2 Launch Date & Time

TOKYO –January 9, 2025 – ispace, inc. (ispace) )(TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that its SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 featuring the RESILIENCE lunar lander...

Interstellar Reached Agreement on Capital and Business Alliance with Woven by Toyota, a Toyota Group Company to Become a Leading Space Infrastructure Provider

Hokkaido, Japan – Interstellar Technologies Inc. (“Interstellar”), a leading space infrastructure company committed to addressing global challenges through space transportation and utilization, is exc...

Starship's seventh flight test

The upcoming flight test will launch a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempt Starship’s first payload deployment test, fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and r...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Completes Integrated Launch Vehicle Hotfire

New Glenn successfully completed an integrated launch vehicle hotfire test today, the final major milestone on our road to first flight. NG-1 will carry a Blue Ring Pathfinder as its first manifested ...

ICEYE expands its Earth Observation capabilities with launch of two SAR satellites for mid-inclination orbit on the Bandwagon-2 mission with SpaceX

Helsinki, Finland - December 21, 2024 - ICEYE, the global leader in SAR satellite operations for Earth Observation and persistent monitoring, announced today that it has launched two new satellites t...

HyImpulse unveils HyMOVE Orbital Transfer Vehicle and partners with Spacemanic to Boost Small Satellite Missions

HyImpulse Technologies GmbH ("HyImpulse"), a leading European provider of hybrid propulsion systems and small satellite launch solutions, unveils HyMOVE, its Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV). Designed ...

Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Satellite for Synspective, Caps Off Year with 60% Increase in Launches YoY

Mahia, New Zealand. 22 December 2024 – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it successfully comple...

Firefly Awarded $179 Million NASA Contract for Moon Delivery to Gruithuisen Domes

Cedar Park, Texas, December 18, 2024 – Firefly Aerospace, Inc., the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, was awarded an approximately $179.6 million NASA contract to deliver and operate six...

Axiom Space Accelerates Axiom Station Assembly

Axiom Space announced today that it is revising the Axiom Station module sequence to enable its commercial space station to become an independent orbital platform as early as 2028.

Revising the ord...

Virgin Galactic Partners with Italy’s Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile to Conduct Spaceport Feasibility Study

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (the “Company” or “Virgin Galactic”) and Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile (“ENAC”), the civil aviation authority of Italy, today announced the signing ...

Seven Re-Entry Missions with Space Cargo Unlimited

Fly Soon, Fly Safe, Fly Back: How Space Cargo Unlimited And ATMOS Join Forces To Industrialize Low-Earth-Orbit With 7 Re-Entry Missions This collaboration represents an important milestone in the Eur...