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Lockheed Martin offers to acquire Terran Orbital

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has proposed acquiring smallsat manufacturer Terran Orbital, which it already owns a stake in and does business with, for more...

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SpaceX acquires parachute supplier

WASHINGTON — In a rare acquisition, SpaceX has purchased out of bankruptcy a company that provided components for Dragon spacecraft parachutes. A federal bankruptcy court...

NASA Mars smallsat mission to be on first New Glenn launch

WASHINGTON — NASA expects that a Mars smallsat mission will be on the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle within a...

Lockheed Martin opens new factory focused on small satellites

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin, a company that for decades has built schoolbus-sized spacecraft for the U.S. government, opened a new facility to assemble small...

Democratizing Space, One Picosatellite At A Time

There was a time when putting an object into low Earth orbit was the absolute pinnacle of human achievement. It was such an outrageously...

SpaceX launches eighth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission

NEW YORK — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched several dozen smallsats on a dedicated rideshare mission June 12, with customers ranging from the U.S....

NASA’s final two TROPICS CubeSats launched by Rocket Lab

The last two spacecraft in a four-satellite constellation of tropical cyclone research platforms took off late Thursday from New Zealand on a Rocket Lab...

Electron rocket launches pair of cyclone-tracking CubeSats for NASA

The first pair of four NASA CubeSats designed to provide frequent updates of typhoon and hurricane development for new insights into how tropical storms...

Artemis 1 cubesat nearing end of mission

WASHINGTON — A cubesat launched as a secondary payload on Artemis 1 may end its operations at the end of the month unless it...

Apex to launch first satellite in 2024

WASHINGTON — Small satellite manufacturer Apex will launch its first satellite next year as a demonstration of its capabilities as it prepares for large-scale...

Satellogic sells Earth-imagery satellites

SAN FRANCISCO – Satellogic, the South American company known for high-resolution multispectral imagery, is selling Earth-observation satellites for $10 million or less. Satellogic’s new...

NASA weighing continuing VERITAS versus future Discovery mission

WASHINGTON — Budget pressures in NASA’s planetary science program could force the agency to choose between continuing a mission to Venus that has already...

Rocket Lab deploys two Capella radar satellites after launch from Virginia

Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher delivered two all-weather radar Earth observation satellites into orbit for Capella Space Thursday night after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia,...

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