Space Development Agency has performed an on-orbit demonstration of the laser light terminals onboard two SpaceX-built missile-warning satellites, showing that the devices can link spacecraft and enable laser communications, Breaking Defense reported
MoreTwo CubeSats on commercial rideshare in SpaceX’s Transporter-11 were launched from Vandenburg Space Force Base, California, on Friday to continue NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator mission series. The series, the first mission of
MoreA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has launched a satellite that carries an imaging spectrometer developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tanager-1, the first satellite of the Carbon Mapper Coalition, will use
MoreThe U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command partnered with Space Norway in launching two Enhanced Polar System – Recapitalization payloads to enhance communications coverage over the Arctic region. The SSC said Thursday it launched the EPS-R
MoreNASA’s Stennis Space Center has launched an autonomous systems payload aboard Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1, or LS-1, small satellite. Carried into space on the SpaceX Transporter 10 rideshare mission, the Autonomous Satellite Technology for
MoreA new National Reconnaissance Office mission for its proliferated architecture of satellites lifted off Friday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from a launch complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The agency
MoreNASA has sent to space the last satellite to complete the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, constellation. The space agency said Tuesday the satellite was launched
MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will receive space vehicle launch and reentry flight data from Virgin Galactic and Sierra Space through the Space Data Integrator platform. FAA said Friday SDI
MoreNASA’s four CubeSat spacecraft for the Starling mission have met all their key objectives, marking a successful demonstration of autonomous swarm operations in low-Earth orbit. Over a ten-month period, the swarm of
MoreA National Reconnaissance Office mission supporting NRO’s proliferated architecture of satellites took off Wednesday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from a launch complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The NROL-146
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