Microgravity research platforms, new LSAs, and satellite launches in August
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Highlights
????ISRO earned $279M through commercial satellite launches. It launched 345 satellites from clients from 34 countries via PSLV. [Business Standard]
While ????ISRO is preparing for the first SSLV demo this week, ????SpaceX is launching ????DANURI lunar orbiter atop a Falcon 9 Block 5. For more August launches check out Launch.ctrl by Precious Payload. [Launch.ctrl]
Launch Updates
????Astraius’ first satellite launch from Prestwick Spaceport has been confirmed on track. Earlier, the UK-based horizontal launch company announced the launch in 2024. ????Northrop Grumman’s Orion solid rocket motors will boost the Astraius launch vehicle after extracting from the unmodified C-17 carrier aircraft. ????Exquadrum’s upper stage will complete the mission. [SatNews]
????Spanish UARX Space will provide launch services for ????Libre Space Foundation’s PoquetQube deployers in 2023 and 2024. The companies signed a multiple launch services agreement. [Press Release]
????FireFly is continuing launch preparations (NET September) for Alpha FLT002 “To The Black” mission at ????Vandenberg Space Force Base SLC-2 launch site. [Twitter]
????HyImpulse to launch ????In Orbit Aerospace’s earth return spacecraft for microgravity experiments aboard the maiden launch of its SL1 in 2024. [Twitter]
????Chinese CAS Space puts six satellites in orbit with first orbital launch of its Lijian-1 solid rocket, among them:
????X-Bow Systems (X-Bow) confirmed the successful suborbital launch of its Bolt Rocket at White Sands Missile Range. It carried a Payload Test Vehicle for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). [SpaceRef]
????Hydrosat gets Tier 1 remote-sensing certification for VanZyl-1, its first satellite mission, which is set to launch with ????Loft Orbital via a ????SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare early next year. [SpaceNews]
????Yuri plans to launch its Science Taxi microgravity research platform to the ISS with ????Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser in 2024. [LinkedIn]
CNES pre-selects the winners of micro and mini launchers to operate from the Guiana Space Center:?
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????Latitude (ex-Venture Orbital Systems). [LinkedIn]
Headlines
????HawkEye 360 opened a satellite factory near its headquarters in northern Virginia. Instead of using satellite buses from the ????UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory for its RF payloads, the company aims to build the whole spacecraft for its constellation in-house ‘to better control the timeline and the costs’. [SpaceNews]
????Redwire to develop space-based drug development and manufacturing platform—Bio-crystal Optimization Xperiment (PIL-BOX). [SpaceRef]
????Rocket Lab will supply solar cells for three missile warning satellites ????Lockheed Martin is building for the ????U.S. Space Force in 2025. [Via Satellite]
????Masten Space Systems, developing a lunar lander for a ????NASA mission and aiming to deliver payloads to the lunar surface, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and selling major assets to a competitor. [SpaceNews]
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Companies highlighted in this market update: Business Standard, ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization, Prestwick Spaceport, Astraius, SatNews, UARX Space , Exquadrum, Inc., an SBA 8(a) Certified Company, UARX Space , Firefly Aerospace, HyImpulse, X-Bow Systems Inc., Maiaspace, Latitude (ex-Venture Orbital Systems), SpaceRef Interactive LLC, Masten Space Systems, Redwire Space, and others.