Picking up where it left off in 2022, SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 of the new year Tuesday, boosting 114 small satellites and other payloads to orbit in the company’s sixth “rideshare” mission, designed to provide low-cost access to space for smaller payloads. Using a first stage making a […]
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The new procurement would be the follow-on to the $94 million Launch Manifest Systems Integration contract that Parsons Corp. won in 2019 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Systems Command has started market research for its next procurement of payload integration services, according to a request for information published Nov. 18. […]
WASHINGTON — Japanese lunar lander developer ispace is in the final phases of preparations for the launch of its first lunar lander mission, a flight that will include a NASA lunar cubesat mission as a secondary payload. Tokyo-based ispace announced Oct. 31 that its HAKUTO-R M1 lander had arrived at […]
Lyft shares tumbled in pre-market trading on Wednesday following The Post’s report that it had implemented a hiring freeze — and Uber wasn’t spared from the pain. Shares of Lyft were down 3.2% while Uber had fallen 1.2% about an hour before the market was set to open on Wednesday […]
Lawmakers in the 2023 NDAA recommended that the Space Force and Space Development Agency use a “common launch integrator” to manage rideshares WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency, a defense organization building a mesh network of satellites in low Earth orbit, plans to start launching payloads this fall, and by […]
LOGAN, Utah — A NASA cubesat was removed from a recent rideshare launch opportunity on a U.S. Space Force mission because the spacecraft could not meet guidelines for deorbiting at the end of its life. The GTOSat mission, developed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, was manifested to fly as […]
LOGAN, Utah — Sidus Space could pivot to launching LizzieSat-1 on a rideshare mission if it can’t get safety clearances in time to deploy its first satellite from the International Space Station early next year. It is unclear if Sidus can get all NASA approvals to add operational-life-extending thrusters to […]
WASHINGTON — A delay in the launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission is forcing another asteroid mission hitching a ride to revise its plans. Janus, a NASA smallsat mission selected in 2019, will launch two identical spacecraft as secondary payloads on the Falcon Heavy rocket whose primary payload is Psyche. […]