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10:52pm, 11th May, 2019

Elon Musk reveals how to stuff 60 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon rocket

We now know how many of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband data satellites, developed in Redmond, Wash., can be crammed into the nose cone of a Falcon rocket. The answer to the ultimate question is 60. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed how five dozen satellites f...

5:15pm, 6th May, 2019

Space

Spaceflight strikes a deal to put rideshare satellites on Relativity Space’s rocket

An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Relativity Space Illustration) Seattle-based has signed a launch services agreement to put payloads on Relativity...

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand

1:49am, 5th May, 2019

Space

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle lifts off from its New Zealand pad. (Rocket Lab via YouTube) sent a trio of research satellites for the U.S. military into orbit tonight from a launch pad that’s thousands of miles from America’s shores, in New Z...

Cloud Constellation chooses LeoStella to build cloud data satellites in Seattle area

7:47am, 2nd May, 2019

Space

Cloud Constellation chooses LeoStella to build cloud data satellites in Seattle area

The SpaceBelt data storage constellation takes advantage of a ring of satellites in low Earth orbit as well as geostationary satellites in higher orbits. (Cloud Constellation Illustration) has chosen , the U.S.-European joint venture based in Tukwil...

NASA satellites track Tropical Cyclone Fani along Eastern India's coastline

1:38pm, 1st May, 2019

Tech

NASA satellites track Tropical Cyclone Fani along Eastern India's coastline

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have been providing infrared, microwave and visible imagery of Tropical Cyclone Fani as it continued to move northward along the eastern coast of India.

Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites

9:26am, 5th April, 2019

Space

Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites

An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Relativity Space Illustration) CEO is a veteran of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture — and in a s...

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

11:18pm, 21st March, 2019

Space

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

The software-defined SWIFT-SLX S-band radio is designed to fit on a CubeSat-class satellite. (Tethers Unlimited Photo) Tethers Unlimited weathered a wave of bad news over the winter, but now some good news has bloomed. The company, headquartered in B...

SwRI-developed satellites enter second phase of operations

4:02pm, 5th March, 2019

Environment

SwRI-developed satellites enter second phase of operations

(Southwest Research Institute) NASA has extended the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission for an additional year and a half. The constellation of microsatellites designed and built at Southwest Research Institute has made histo...

10:18pm, 21st February, 2019

Space

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches Indonesia’s Nusantara Satu telecommunications satellite as well as the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander and an Air Force research satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) A Space...

Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes

4:26pm, 14th February, 2019

Environment

Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes

(Brown University) In a finding that has implications for how scientists calculate natural greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds that water levels in small lakes across northern Canada and Alaska vary during the summer much more than was assume...

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Elon Musk reveals how to stuff 60 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon rocket

Spaceflight strikes a deal to put rideshare satellites on Relativity Space’s rocket

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand

Cloud Constellation chooses LeoStella to build cloud data satellites in Seattle area

NASA satellites track Tropical Cyclone Fani along Eastern India's coastline

Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

SwRI-developed satellites enter second phase of operations

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes

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