This outer shell protected the payload instrumentation, as represented by other objects in the coolection. Explorer 1, also known unofficially as Satellite 1958 alpha, was the first American satellite ...

A local company booked payload space on a flight to lower Earth orbit. This is how it was done. 5th Falcon Heavy launch in 2023 — with top-secret passenger L3Harris unfurls reflectors on huge ...

Summary This is a payload model for the Explorer S-46 satellite, based upon a fully instrumented developmental model in the collection provided by the University of Iowa. The satellite would have ...

The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the nation’s next-generation missile warning system announced today that it has completed preparations to enable the payload for the first Space-Based ...

On-orbit servicing mission planned for military satellite in 2025 A robotic servicing vehicle will rendezvous with a military satellite and attach an imaging payload by Sandra Erwin March 27, 2024 ...

Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Geost, signaling the latter’s expansion into the satellite payload segment. The launch services and space systems company said Tuesday it will acquire Geost’s ...

Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, released its “satellite selfie,” an image taken by its Aries SN1 spacecraft. The photograph was ...

Iranian state media claimed one of the country's Simorgh rockets launched its largest payload yet, sending three spacecraft into low-Earth orbit on Dec. 6.

The TOPCAT II satellite payload, created to take measurements of atmospheric conditions in space to inform improvements to technologies including GPS, will be part of the Orpheus mission set to launch ...

SatixFy Communications announced today that the OneWeb JoeySat Satellite was successfully launched from California on Saturday, May 20, 2023.

Iranian state media claimed one of the country's Simorgh rockets launched its largest payload yet, sending three spacecraft into low-Earth orbit on Dec. 6.