Agreement underlines the growing global demand for private and flexible orbital launches Munich, Germany / Bellevue, Wash. US 25 January 2023 – European launch service company Isar Aerospace, and U.S.-based Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, announced they have signed a multi-launch services agreement. Under the agreement, Spaceflight secured one dedicated launch in 2026 to…

The Wallops Island, Virginia launch boosts revisit rates for global high-demand regions Herndon, Virginia (January 24, 2022) — HawkEye 360 Inc., the world’s leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, announced today that its Cluster 6 next-generation satellites have successfully deployed to orbit aboard the inaugural Rocket Lab Electron flight from Launch…

Last May, we closed a $13M seed round to jumpstart our vision to become the first commercial company to mine an asteroid and bring the materials back to Earth. Less than a year later, the AstroForge initial demonstration flight is readying for launch! In 2023, we’re embarking on two important missions: a refinery demonstration that…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Tuesday a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability for NASA crewed missions to Mars. NASA and DARPA will partner on the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations, or DRACO, program. The non-reimbursable agreement designed to benefit…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — NASA announced Thursday its new Mars Sample Receiving Project office, responsible for receiving and curating the first samples returned from the Red Planet, will be located at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The safe and rapid release of Mars samples after they return to Earth to laboratories worldwide…

By David Bullock “For us as a technological civilization, the two most important things are us [humankind], and our data. If we lose our data, we lose our species,” said Chris Stott, founder and CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings. The company’s goal is to have data storage on the Moon, with its mission statement, “Saving…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — Students from the Boys & Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County in Ronan, Montana, will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The space-to-Earth call will air live at 12 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 25, on NASA Television,…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — January 13, 2023– During an event hosted by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington Friday, representatives from the United States and Japan gathered to sign an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between the two…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Domain Awareness & Combat Power (SDACP) Directorate delivered the first of two payloads to Japan, putting the United States and Japan one step closer to the launch of two U.S.-hosted payloads on Japan’s GEO-based Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS). The payload deliveries follow the historic Memorandum of Understanding…

World View, a global leader in stratospheric exploration and flight, to be well-positioned to strengthen its leadership position in the stratospheric remote sensing industry TUCSON, Ariz.— January 13, 2023 — World View, a global leader in stratospheric exploration and flight, and Leo Holdings Corp. II (“Leo”) (NYSE: LHC), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, today…