A Falcon 9 rocket has delivered 11 satellites into mid-inclination, low Earth orbit, marking the inaugural run of a new rideshare service called Bandwagon.
Sierra Space has begun initial drop tests of Ghost, a deployable decelerator designed to protect a pre-staged payload during re-entry within 90 min. of call-up.
Touchdown of the descent module on the steppes of Kazakhstan occurred at 3:17 a.m. EDT, or 12:17 p.m. local time, about 90 mi. southeast of Dzhezkazgan.
Startups Isar Aerospace, PLD Space and Rocket Factory Augsburg already have agreed to use the refurbished ELM-Diamant launch complex in Kourou, French Guiana.
Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.
A U.S. government pressure campaign has yet to produce visible results for Russia to drop alleged plans to eventually launch a co-orbital space weapon.
The Space Development Agency is considering a change to its requirements for optical communications terminal for its data transport satellite constellation.
Umbra Space is the latest commercial space company to show that bistatic coupling of two radar satellites could be used to implement moving target indication.
