Staff reporter at Burn and Coast, covering Space Tech.
Amid a constrained launch market, satellite operators are emphasizing to investors and customers that they have secured launch capacity, even if it is uncertain when those vehicles will be available.
The U.S. Space Force has completed the deployment of a second space-surveillance sensor aboard a Japanese navigation satellite, expanding its ability to monitor objects in geosynchronous orbit.
As companies like Firefly Aerospace and Rocket Lab plan to launch more missions from Wallops Island, Virginia, the facility is working to improve its infrastructure and prepare for the expected surge in activity.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global and PlanetiQ to provide radio occultation data for terrestrial and space weather forecasts.
The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit and the Space Development Agency have selected three companies to study options for providing satellite deorbiting services to the U.S. government.
NASA plans to award three more lunar missions this year through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, including a lunar orbiter that would replace the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.