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Australia’s Gilmour Space Technologies plans maiden flight of Eris Test Flight1 on July 16, nation’s first orbital launch in over 50 years

Gilmour Space plans a Tuesday, July 16, launch for the maiden flight of Eris Test Flight1 at 2:30 PM – 12:30 AM PDT. The launch will be from Bowen Orbital […]  [...]

SpaceX plans Saturday launch of Israel’s communications satellite Dror-1 (Commercial GTO 1)

SpaceX’s Falcon 9, on Saturday, July 12th, will launch Dror1 at 9:31 PM – 1:44 AM PDTA new type of SpaceX mission will lift off over the weekend from Cape […]  [...]

The UK will participate in the contemplated capital increase announced by Eutelsat

Eutelsat (ISIN: FR0010221234 – Euronext Paris / London Stock Exchange: ETL) has announced that The United Kingdom[1] is to participate in the contemplated capital increase announced by Eutels [...]

SpaceX plans Sunday launch of Starlink Group 15-2 smallsats from California

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Sunday, July 13, will launch a batch of Starlink smallsats to low Earth orbit to add to the Starlink constellation at 7:27 PM – 10:42 PM […]  [...]

Forrester’s Digest: SES, Intelsat deal clears Federal permissions

The acquisition of Intelsat by SES has been cleared by Federal law enforcement officials. However, this clearance does not yet apply to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The clearance co [...]

Microchip expands space-qualified FPGA portfolio with new RT PolarFire® device qualifications + SoC availability

Continuing to support the evolving needs of space system developers, Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has announced two new milestones for its Radiation-Tolerant (RT) PolarFire® technology: MIL [...]

Launch Update: Space Forge launches ForgeStar®-1— the UK’s 1st in-space manufacturing satellite

Space Forge launched and confirmed on-orbit communication with ForgeStar®-1, the UK’s first in-space manufacturing satellite, developed entirely in Wales. The launch marks a major breakthrough f [...]

Launch Update: Indra Group designs + develops Startical’s IOD-2 satellite mission

Indra Group completed the engineering development for the mission involving the Startical IOD-2 satellite—all within two years. The company was created by ENAIRE and Indra to provide communicatio [...]

Launch Update: Lacuna Space expands D2D IoT Network with satellite launches

Lacuna Space recently launched new satellites under the company’s Call of the Wild mission banner, a major step forward in scaling their direct-to-device (D2D) IoT network. This is the first  [...]