Roosevelt “Ted” Mercer Jr heads the Virginia Spaceport Authority, which operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. The facility regularly hosts blast-offs from Rocket Lab and Northrop Grumman and is on the same site as NASA’s legendary Wallops Fligh…
The incident, later blamed on an “energetic event” in the vehicle’s rear, led to four airports in Florida – Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando – halting flights for 80 minutes as fragments of Starship streaked through the sky like fireworks…
Fleet Space Technologies said its new 5,000 sqm ‘GHQ’ would be based at the airport’s Catalyst Park precinct and feature “advanced manufacturing and data centre technologies”.
The Australian Space Agency said an alert was issued because the re-entry of the Stage II Soyuz 2-1B Fregat mirrored a “near-identical” mission in August 2023.
Southern Launch, which operates the site, confirmed Varda’s W-2 spacecraft touched down using a parachute at 1:02 am local time and was monitored on the way down with tracking telescopes.
The chief technology officer of the University of Southern Queensland’s iLAuNCH program, Dr Joni Sytsma, has joined the impressive speaker line-up to discuss the potential for dual-use innovation in space and defence.
A satellite video call has been completed with regular smartphones using AT&T spectrum and powered by AST SpaceMobile satellites. This demonstration was made possible through the BlueBird satellites, which were launched in September 2024 and enable…
Airbus and MediaTek have successfully completed the world’s first trial of 5G NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) technology over Eutelsat OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The milestone promises to enable seamless terrestrial and satellite network …
The appointment of Dan Lloyd comes months after the axing of the $3 billion JP9102 SATCOM project and also follows the cancelling of several other high-profile space contracts in 2023.