Satellite News

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. announced the launch window for a dedicated Electron mission for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. The 14-day launch window opens on 28 February UTC and will lift-off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.

Spire Globa and Exolaunch have closed a new contract for a multi-launch agreement (MLA). Through this MLA, Spire gains fast and regular access to space for its own satellite constellation as well as for all of its customers to enhance Spire’s “space-as-a-service” offerings.

NASA conducted its second RS-25 engine hot fire test of the new year 8 February on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

The launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C52 is scheduled at 0029 UTC on 14 February 2022 from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet.

The launch of an Astra Space rocket from Florida was aborted by onboard systems on 7 January after the ignition of the rocket’s engine, moments before lift-off. A new date has not been announced so far.

The planned launch of an Astra Space rocket from Florida was scrubbed on 5 January after the failure of ground equipment needed to launch. A new date has not been announced so far.

A new type of large, fully-composite, linerless cryogenic fuel tank, designed and manufactured by Boeing, passed a critical series of tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at the end of 2021. The successful test campaign proves the new technology is mature, safe and ready for use in aerospace vehicles.