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Boeing and MT Aerospace AG, a subsidiary of OHB SE, have signed a further contract to supply structural components for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Boeing is the industrial prime contractor for the development and construction of this heavy-lift launch vehicle, whose first flight is scheduled for spring 2022.

Rocket: Astra Rocket 3.3; Payload: Astra-1 (three smallsats); Date: 15 March 2022, 1622 UTC; Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex Kodiak, USA. The payloads were deployed successfully in their target orbit.

Astra Space, Inc. and Spaceflight Inc. announced a multi-launch contract. The first launch under this contract was planned for 14 March 2022 but has been delayed to 15 March owing to bad weather. This agreement provides Spaceflight with launch opportunities using Astra’s launch services through 2025.

The ground testing of the newly developed solid booster stage (SS1) for the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), the new launch vehicle of ISRO, was carried out on 14 March 2022 at Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota.

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), the prime institution responsible for defence-related research in Norway, has awarded a contract to Exolaunch to launch its ARCSAT satellite aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9.

Satellogic Inc. announced it has shipped five satellites to be launched in early Q2 from Cape Canaveral. The launch will be part of SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission onboard a Falcon 9 rocket under SpaceX’s rideshare programme.

Virgin Orbit and European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge have announced an agreement to launch the first satellite developed in Wales in summer 2022.

The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket carrying the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has been delayed due to a customer request.

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