Satellite News

SpaceX postponed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first 60 satellites for his new Starlink Internet service, citing excessive winds over the Florida launch site.

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed two contracts for technology maturation with MT Aerospace AG, an affiliate of the listed OHB SE space and technology group and with ArianeGroup, lead contractor for Ariane 6.

Rocket Crafters, a Florida-based space startup, has signed an agreement with RUAG Space to use RUAG components.

NASA and Northrop Grumman technicians have applied insulation to the final booster motor segment for the second flight of NASA’s deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, and NASA’s Orion spacecraft.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the PSLV-C46, on its 48th mission, would launch RISAT, a radar imaging Earth observation satellite, on 22 May.

The long-delayed U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission, carrying 24 payloads aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, is now scheduled to lift-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 22 June 2019.

United Launch Services has been awarded a US$149.4 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract for National Security Space Launch Delta IV heavy launch services.

Rocket Lab announced that its next flight will launch multiple spacecraft on a mission procured by satellite rideshare and mission management provider, Spaceflight. The launch window will open in June, with launch taking place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.