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Phantom Space Conducts Successful Stage Hot Fire Test for New Rocket

Phantom Space Corporation (Phantom), a space applications company providing launch services and satellite manufacturing to business and government clients, today announced a successful stage hot fire test at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

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Phantom Space Conducts Successful Stage Hot Fire Test for New Rocket

Phantom Space Conducts Successful Stage Hot Fire Test for New Rocket

Phantom Space Corporation (Phantom), a space applications company providing launch services and satellite manufacturing to business and government clients, today announced a successful ...

ICEYE Introduces the World’s First Wide Area Imaging for Persistent Monitoring with New Space SAR Satellites

ICEYE Introduces the World’s First Wide Area Imaging for Persistent Monitoring with New Space SAR Satellites

HELSINKI, Finland (ICEYE PR) – Finnish New Space leader ICEYE announced today the commercial availability of wide area imaging capabilities covering 10,000 km² data acquisitions with its ...

Big plans for mini-launchers

Big plans for mini-launchers

Industry’s attention is shifting to a larger class of rockets, sometimes called ”mini-launchers” capable of placing about a metric ton into orbit.

Rocket Lab Successfully Completes First Test Fire of Reused Rutherford Engine

Rocket Lab Successfully Completes First Test Fire of Reused Rutherford Engine

LONG BEACH, Calif. (Rocket Lab PR) — Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab”, or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, has successfully test fired a reused ...

Fresh out of stealth mode, Astra gearing up for orbital launch from Alaska

Fresh out of stealth mode, Astra gearing up for orbital launch from Alaska

DARPA says it wants companies like Astra at the ready to deliver military payloads into orbit at low cost on short notice, giving commanders the ability to rapidly deploy orbiting assets or ...

Starship is ready for flight

Starship is ready for flight

[SpaceNews] With $500 million from a Series D round led by Tiger Global Management, Relativity Space plans to accelerate long-term initiatives involving development of additive ...

Chinese Firms Space Transportation and Linkspace Test Reusable Launcher Technologies

Chinese Firms Space Transportation and Linkspace Test Reusable Launcher Technologies

Two Chinese launch startups have successfully carried out tests of technology demonstration rockets as part of quests to develop reusable launch vehicles.

Chinese commercial rocket Hyperbola-1 fails in Return to Flight attempt

Chinese commercial rocket Hyperbola-1 fails in Return to Flight attempt

iSpace, a private Chinese launch service provider, made an attempt to Return to Flight (RTF)…

Space Launch Start-Up Just Used A Giant Centrifuge To Fling A Projectile Into The Upper Atmosphere

Space Launch Start-Up Just Used A Giant Centrifuge To Fling A Projectile Into The Upper Atmosphere

SpinLaunch plans to use its kinetic launch system to put small satellites into orbit rapidly and cheaply, and the Pentagon is interested.

Phantom Space Corporation Names Mark Lester New Vice President of Launch Operations

Phantom Space Corporation Names Mark Lester New Vice President of Launch Operations

/PRNewswire/ -- Phantom Space Corporation, the space transportation technology development and manufacturing company, today announced the hiring of Mark Lester....

Rocket Report: SpaceX fires up seven Raptors; SpinLaunch raises big funding round

Rocket Report: SpaceX fires up seven Raptors; SpinLaunch raises big funding round

This is the first time the Rocket Report has used the word "yeeted" in its history.

Spaceflight Inc. Successfully Deploys 16 Payloads on SpaceX Transporter-1 Mission

Spaceflight Inc. Successfully Deploys 16 Payloads on SpaceX Transporter-1 Mission

Launch marks debut flight of its next generation OTV, Sherpa-FX Cape Canaveral, Fla.– January 25, 2021 — Spaceflight Inc., the global launch services provider, successfully launched and ...

UK company reveals micro-launcher rocket

UK company reveals micro-launcher rocket

The UK Space Agency has welcomed news that the British rocket company Orbex has unveiled the first full-scale prototype of its Prime orbital space rocket.

Rocket Lab Launch Operations Underway For Two BlackSky Missions in November

Rocket Lab Launch Operations Underway For Two BlackSky Missions in November

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch provider and space systems company, has today announced it has s

BlackSky Earth-observing satellites lost due to anomaly during Rocket Lab launch

BlackSky Earth-observing satellites lost due to anomaly during Rocket Lab launch

Two satellites for BlackSky’s Earth observation constellation were lost today when the second stage of Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle suffered an anomaly.

Rocket Lab Selected by MDA to Design and Build Spacecraft for Globalstar

Rocket Lab Selected by MDA to Design and Build Spacecraft for Globalstar

The $143 million contract is the largest spacecraft bus order placed with Rocket Lab to date, encompassing the design and manufacture of 17 state-of-the-art spacecraft for Globalstar’s ...