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Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Satellites ~500km Apart to Separate Orbits For KAIST and NASA
Mahia, New Zealand. 24 April, 2024– Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today deployed two satellites to two diff...
PLD Space has achieved 120 million euros in funding to date
The Spanish company PLD Space has attained 120 million euros in funding to date, thus ensuring it can meet its upcoming technological and corporate milestones, culminating in the launch of the MIURA 5...
Orbex Secures £16.7m Investment for Rocket ‘Ramp Up’ Period
The UK spaceflight company Orbex has received £16.7m from six backers in an update to its Series C funding round. With pre-launch testing underway, the funding will help Orbex ramp up the development ...
Rocket Lab Selected by Space Systems Command to Build and Launch Spacecraft for Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) Mission
Colorado Springs, Colo. April 11, 2024. - Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) today announced that it has been selected for a $32M U.S. Space Force Space Systems Comman...
Max Space announces plans for inflatable space station modules
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (April 10, 2024) – At a press conference today at the 39th Space Symposium, Max
Space, an entrepreneurial new space company, introduced their unique expandable habitat architectu...
Fleet Space Launches Next-Gen Centauri-6 Satellite on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 Mission
Fleet Space Technologies, the leading Australian space exploration company, announced the successful deployment of its next-generation Centauri-6 satellite on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 mission, launched ab...
Vast’s Haven-1 to be World’s First Commercial Space Station Connected by SpaceX Starlink
Long Beach, Calif. (April 9, 2024) – Today, we are announcing that Vast’s Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station, will be equipped with SpaceX’s Starlink laser terminal pr...
Green Light for First Australian Orbital Spaceport in Bowen, Queensland
Australian rockets are closer to launching off the Queensland coast following the approval of the country's first orbital launch facility licence under the Space (Launches & Returns) Act 2018.
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Dawn announces lunar mission customer, Cislunar Technologies
Dawn Aerospace, a space transportation company based in the Netherlands and New Zealand, has today announced a lunar mission contract, supplying green propulsion technology to the Japanese company, Ci...
Rocket Lab Prepares to Launch Mission for KAIST and NASA to Deploy Satellites to Two Separate Orbits
Long Beach, California. April 1, 2024. – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has set the launc...
Intuitive Machines-led Moon RACER Team Awarded NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle Contract to Support the Agency’s Artemis Campaign
HOUSTON, TX—April 3, 2024 – NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) (“Intuitive Machines”) (“Company”) $30 million as a prime contractor to complete a Lunar Terrain Vehicle Ser...
PATENT SECURED FOR 'PETAL FOLD' REUSABLE ROCKET TECHNOLOGY
Orbex has successfully patented its REFLIGHT reusable rocket technology following patent approval in several European markets, based on the patent grant by the European Patent Office, as well as in th...
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