During October 2021’s Small Payload Ride Share Association Symposium, a collection of small satellite launch providers gave updates on current and future projects. These providers range from those preparing for first flights, others in the middle of their test flight program, and still others that have already delivered operational payloads. A common theme was having eyes on reusability as future evolutions for small satellite launch systems.
Northrop Grumman launched the NG-16 Cygnus cargo vehicle, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka, to the International…
Another smallsat launch provider is looking to debut in 2021, entering a busy market of…
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Northrop Grumman kicked off their 2021 launch manifest with the flight of an Antares rocket…
After a period of over three months in which the spacecraft was berthed to the…
Despite a worldwide pandemic which affected agencies around the world, 2020 featured many significant achievements…
After planning began in 2016 for a small, multi-user launch pad at Kennedy Space Center…
Following the cancellation of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA rocket, work to demolish the vehicle’s launch tower…
Humanity’s fleet of robotic explorers peppered throughout the solar system continue to reveal new and…
Northrop Grumman launched the classified NROL-129 mission, consisting of four payloads designed and built by…
For the first time in its 10-year flight history, the Minotaur IV rocket is preparing…
Nearly three weeks after the last flight of Rocket Lab’s workhorse Electron rocket, the California-based…
As world leaders grapple and struggle to control the coronavirus pandemic which leads to the…
Astra and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are still readying for the first…
A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops…
Following NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s requested, and the Federal Communications Commission approved, post-Station mission extension,…
In 2019, American companies reached crucial milestones on the path towards launching small satellites. Firefly…
Less than 48 hours after launching from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia,…
Roughly 37 hours after launching from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s…
