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@SpaceX Now targeting no earlier than Wednesday, June 11 for Falcon 9 to launch Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) due to high winds in the ascent corridor
This is the first flight for the Dragon spacecraft supporting this mission. This will be the second flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched a Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida

@RocketLab ✅ Another wet dress rehearsal complete for our next Electron launch. Due to weather, we’re now targeting lift-off for June 11 UTC/June 12 NZT. ⏰ Launch timing: NET 15:15 UTC/03:15 NZT 🚀 Mission: ‘The Mountain God Guards’ 🎯 Customer: iQPS 🛰️ Payload: QPS-SAR-11 📍 Launch Site: LC-1

@SpaceX Now targeting no earlier than Wednesday, June 11 for Falcon 9 to launch Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) due to high winds in the ascent corridor

@ulalaunch Kuiper 2, the launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the second batch of production satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, is planned for June 13, 2025, pending range approval. The launch is scheduled for 2:29 p.m. EDT at the opening of a thirty-minute window, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

@MHI_LS [The final H2A 🚀 ] We are pleased to announce the launch date. Sorry for the wait!! The H-IIA rocket No. 50 will launch into space carrying the Greenhouse Gases and Water Cycle Observation Satellite (GOSAT-GW) ➣ Planned launch date: June 24, 2025 (Tuesday) ➣ Scheduled launch time: 1:33:03 a.m. - 1:52:00 a.m

@NASASun NASA’s new TRACERS mission is targeting launch no earlier than summer 2025. 🚀 The pair of satellites will orbit Earth to study how particles escaping the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. 🛰️🛰️

@ulalaunch Vulcan Rocket is getting ready to serve the nation! The USSF-106 launch campaign for our third Vulcan mission — and first for United States Space Force (USSF) and United Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) — begins today with the start of stacking operations at the Vertical Integration Facility-G

@DawnAerospace 🎉 🛫 First Mk-II Aurora contract in the bag! 🛫 🎉 We are excited to announce our partnership with Scout Space for a first-of-its-kind tactically responsive VLEO space domain awareness capability!
This will be the first of many commercial applications for the Mk-II Aurora. A technology demonstration flight is planned for November of this year from the Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre

@RocketLab We’re proud to be selected by United Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to partner on the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space Mission. Combining our launch and space systems capabilities as an integrated solution, the mission will see us design and build a spacecraft, before launching it with just 24 hours’ notice

@Firefly_Space Our first Elytra mission is set to launch aboard Alpha in 2024! As the first of many missions utilizing multiple Firefly vehicles, this demonstration will lay the groundwork for Firefly’s end-to-end mission solutions with rapid launch, deployment, and on-orbit services
This is also our second responsive space mission, deploying on-orbit payloads at a time and place of our customers’ choosing in support of Xtenti follow-on study contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), this mission will demonstrate a rapid payload reconfiguration prior to launching on Alpha and utilizing Elytra to deploy multiple satellites at a time and place of the NRO's choosing

@NASA NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s NISAR mission, set to launch in early 2025, will help us understand changes in Earth's surface, including phenomena such as quakes, volcanoes and landslides

@ESA_EO Tilting MTG-S1, for its own good! The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Sounder satellite, with the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument on board, has undergone a series of tests and manoeuvres at the launch site, which were performed to enable the mechanisms of the mission’s Infrared Sounder instrument to be locked and prepared for launch in July 2025. The manoeuvres involved tilting the satellite vertically, back to a horizontal position, then rotating it

@NASASpaceOps After reviewing the International Space Station (ISS) flight schedule, NASA and its partners are shifting launch opportunities for several upcoming missions. The schedule adjustments provide more time to finalize mission plans, spacecraft readiness, and logistics. The new targeted no-earlier-than-launch opportunities, pending operational readiness, are: Axiom Space Mission 4: 9:11 a.m. EDT, Sunday, June 8 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11: Late July NASA’s SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services: Late August

@isro Mission Gaganyaan: ISRO to commence unmanned flight tests for the Gaganyaan mission. Preparations for the Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1), which demonstrates the performance of the Crew Escape System, are underway

@Arianespace Today, we are proud to announce that we have signed a launch contract with KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) for the Earth observation 🛰 Kompsat-6. The satellite will be delivered to orbit by Vega-C as early as December 2024. 🚀

@NASA NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission is now targeting a launch in 2025. ESCAPADE's two satellites will investigate how solar wind interacts with the magnetic environment of Mars

@AirbusSpace First Sentinel-5 instrument set to watch over our planet! 🧩 An Airbus-built instrument is one step closer to helping improve monitoring of air quality, changes in the ozone layer, and emissions from wildfires on board the second generation weather satellites MetOp. ☁️ The Airbus-built UVNS (Ultraviolet Visible Near-infrared Short-wave infrared Spectrometer) instrument has just been successfully completed, signed off by our ESA customer and is now ready for integration on the MetOp-SG A 🛰️

@NASASpaceOps After reviewing the International Space Station (ISS) flight schedule, NASA and its partners are shifting launch opportunities for several upcoming missions. The schedule adjustments provide more time to finalize mission plans, spacecraft readiness, and logistics. The new targeted no-earlier-than-launch opportunities, pending operational readiness, are: Axiom Space Mission 4: 9:11 a.m. EDT, Sunday, June 8 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11: Late July NASA’s SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services: Late August

@NASA_LSP 🚀 LAUNCH UPDATE NASA is now targeting NET September 2025 for the launch of IMAP from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. IMAP will study the heliosphere, a sort of magnetic bubble surrounding and protecting our solar system

@Firefly_Space The Firefly crew completed our 1st Miranda hot fire! 7 of these 230,000 lbf engines will power the 1st stage of Northrop Grumman Space Systems's Antares 330 & the Medium Launch Vehicle we're developing together. More to come as we work towards a full-duration hot fire

@astrobotic Breaking news! Our Griffin lander will deliver AstroLab's FLIP rover to the Nobile Region of the lunar south pole as part of Griffin Mission One. Welcome to the mission, FLIP! 🚀🌕

@QPS_Inc 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 🚀🚀🚀 We have signed a new launch contract for four additional satellites! A total of eight QPS-SARs will be launched aboard Electron in the future, with the first launch scheduled as early as next month in March. We will inform you of the individual launch schedules in due course ✨

@ulalaunch We have been working closely with our current Vulcan Rocket Cert-2 customer, Sierra Space, and while ULA will be ready to fly, Sierra Space has shared that they are making excellent progress with Dream Chaser but have schedule risk to fly by that time. We are working with Sierra Space to identify the next available launch date

@Int_Machines As part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration efforts we will be investigating lunar swirls as we suspect they may help shield future Artemis astronauts from the intense radiation on the Moon. IM-3 will complete complex lunar operations, including investigating the Reiner Gamma swirl

@RocketLab LOXSAT is an incredibly exciting and ambitious mission. Electron and Photon will conduct a flight demonstration of a complete cryogenic fluid management system in orbit for NASA and Eta Space - essentially building, launching, and testing a cryogenic fuel depot in space!

@QPS_Inc 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 🚀🚀🚀 We have signed a new launch contract for four additional satellites! A total of eight QPS-SARs will be launched aboard Electron in the future, with the first launch scheduled as early as next month in March. We will inform you of the individual launch schedules in due course ✨

@HTVX_JAXA A deployment test of the solar array paddle for HTV-X1 was conducted! The KOUNOTORI had solar cells attached to the entire fuselage, but the HTV-X uses deployable solar cell paddles 🐥 While consolidating the power generation function into the service module, a large power generation area is secured

@ESA_EO 5⃣ more Copernicus Sentinel satellites now have a ticket to space 🚀 A contract signed today between ESA & Arianespace has ensured rides into orbit for Sentinel-1D, Sentinel-2C, Sentinel-3C, the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide-A & -B satellites

@NASA_LSP 🚀🛰 NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission which will continue the long-term global sea level data record begun in 1992. It will join its twin satellite Sentinel-6 MF in Seeing The Seas!

@QPS_Inc 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 🚀🚀🚀 We have signed a new launch contract for four additional satellites! A total of eight QPS-SARs will be launched aboard Electron in the future, with the first launch scheduled as early as next month in March. We will inform you of the individual launch schedules in due course ✨

@Arianespace We are proud to announce at SAT Show a new contract signed with the Italian government for the deployment of the IRIDE Earth observation constellation with 3 Vega-C launches to be scheduled from end of 2025 onwards!

@RocketLab Neutron’s launch site is taking shape. While we’re gearing up for the next Electron launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in the coming days, here’s what the Neutron team have been up to on the new pad right next door.
Neutron's water tower has arrived at LC-3! The 283 ft / 86 m tall tower has a 200,000-gallon capacity to feed Neutron’s deluge system which protects the pad from the intense heat and vibration from the Archimedes engines on lift-off.
Concrete is flowing fast on the launch mount, a dedicated new pad for Neutron designed to enable rapid turnaround between missions.
Just a 5-minute drive from the pad, the Neutron Integration Facility is under construction. It’s from this facility that completed Neutron rockets will roll out to the pad before taking to the skies

@rfa_space On Monday evening, RFA conducted a hot fire of its first stage at their launch site at SaxaVord Spaceport. This resulted in an anomaly that led to the loss of the stage. No one was injured in the process. The launch pad has been saved and is secured, the situation is under control, and any immediate danger has been mitigated. We are now working closely with SaxaVord Spaceport and the authorities to gather data and info to eventually resolve what happened. We will take our time to analyze and assess the situation. We develop iteratively with an emphasis on real testing. This is part of our philosophy and we were aware of the higher risks attached to this approach. Our goal is to return to regular operations as soon as possible. We will keep you updated on our channels. Until then we kindly ask for your patience

@Skyrora_Ltd Today marks 2 years since #Skyrora completed the static fire test of the second stage of our orbital #SkyroraXL vehicle! We look forward to testing the first stage soon, which features 9 of our 3D printed 70 kN engines for optimal thrust 💥

@istellartech_en We're honored to announce IST's selection for Japan's Government-backed Small Business Program, celebrating tech startups' potential. We join four companies in space transport sector, working to enhance Japan's space capabilities globally

@orbexspace Today we announced that we'll focus our operations exclusively on developing small & medium sized space rockets, will switch our launch operations to SaxaVord Spaceport & pause construction of Sutherland Spaceport

@PLD_Space 💫 Today we are pleased to present the MIURA 5 SPARK Program 💫 PLD Space aims to spark innovation in space through this unique opportunity that allows students, researchers, institutions and companies from all over the world to launch their most creative and transformative projects on one of the first two flights of our MIURA 5 rocket with no associated costs.

@Arabsat Arabsat and SpaceX sign a contract to launch the 7A satellite, Falcon 9 will carry Arabsat 7A to its orbital position 30.5 East

@esascience Meet ESA SMILE. The soon-to-be newest member of our space science mission fleet. Employing X-ray and UV vision to see how Earth reacts to relentless streams and bursts of particles from the Sun

@ESA_EO 5⃣ more Copernicus Sentinel satellites now have a ticket to space 🚀 A contract signed today between ESA & Arianespace has ensured rides into orbit for Sentinel-1D, Sentinel-2C, Sentinel-3C, the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide-A & -B satellites

@SES_Satellites SES News: We're excited to share that Arianespace will launch the EAGLE-1 satellite for ESA’s end-to-end Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system in 2024! 🚀

@QPS_Inc 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 🚀🚀🚀 We have signed a new launch contract for four additional satellites! A total of eight QPS-SARs will be launched aboard Electron in the future, with the first launch scheduled as early as next month in March. We will inform you of the individual launch schedules in due course ✨

@VayaSpace Vaya’s hybrid propulsion platform is the foundation of everything we do. Our engines use solid fuel & liquid oxidizer, combining the performance & controllability of a liquid biprop engine with the simplicity and reliability of a solid rocket motor

@Commercial_Crew NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1: NET Summer 2024

@RocketLab 🚨 New contract alert! 🚨 We’re honored to be selected by United States Space Force (USSF) and United Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to launch STP-S30. The $14.49 million contract will see us launch a dedicated Electron mission from LC-2, deploying a spacecraft to demonstrate sustained very low Earth orbit flight. The mission will be our 3rd for the Space Force, further strengthening Electron’s position as the leading small launch vehicle delivering reliable and responsive launch to the DoD

@NASA_Orion Thorough analysis has identified the root cause of char loss seen on the Artemis I heat shield. NASA determined that crew can safely fly on Artemis II using the existing Orion heat shield design. Launch is now targeted for April 2026

@Telesat Great News!Telesat Lightspeed satellites will be launched into orbit by SpaceX using their Falcon 9 rocket. The launches are scheduled to begin in 2026 and SpaceX’s rapid launch cadence will ensure worldwide services available to Telesat customers by 2027

@Firefly_Space Another big lunar win! Firefly was awarded its third NASA CLPS contract to provide radio frequency calibration services from lunar orbit. As part of Blue Ghost Mission 2, these services will allow NASA’s LuSEE-Night radio telescope to further unlock the origins of the universe

@astrobotic We're heading to the Moon’s South Pole (again) in 2026! 🌔 Today at the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) we announced our purchase: launch services aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for our 3rd upcoming lunar lander mission!

@Ariane6 Arianespace and Intelsat just signed a contract to launch the IS-45 payload with Ariane 6. This is the 67ᵗʰ satellite to be launched by Arianespace to the benefit of longtime customer Intelsat (since 1983)

@vast Announcing the Haven-1 and Vast-1 missions to low-Earth orbit. Launched by SpaceX, Haven-1 is scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station and will be visited by a crew of four aboard a Dragon spacecraft during Vast-1

@vast Announcing the Haven-1 and Vast-1 missions to low-Earth orbit. Launched by SpaceX, Haven-1 is scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station and will be visited by a crew of four aboard a Dragon spacecraft during Vast-1

@Astrolab_Space Today we announce a launch agreement with SpaceX - Our FLEX rover is headed to the Moon aboard a Starship landing system as soon as mid-2026. Once it completes its mission, FLEX will become the largest and most capable rover to ever travel to the 🌕

@ClearspaceToday 📣 Exciting news for the first active debris removal mission! ClearSpace just signed a contract with Arianespace for the launch of its servicer spacecraft ClearSpace-1 with the European launcher Vega C. ClearSpace-1 will rendezvous, capture, and remove a piece of space debris as the world's first mission commissioned by the ESA, and supported by Elite partner Omega Watches

@ESA_EO The 3 MetOp-Second Generation B-type satellites are now together at Airbus Space's facility in Germany 🇩🇪. The first of these B units (the one on the left in the image) will complement the MetOp-SG A satellite, scheduled to be launched in August 2025. The satellites carry instruments to provide high-resolution measurements of temperature, precipitation, clouds, winds, and more. The A-type satellites carry optical and sounder instruments, and the B-type satellites carry mainly microwave imaging instruments

@Ariane6 We are proud to announce the signature of a new contract for a dedicated Ariane 64 launch of two satellites, IS-41 and IS-44, for IntelSat in 2025

@isaraerospace Honored to welcome ElevationSpace as our first customer in the Asian market. We look forward to launching your first spacecraft "AOBA" together

@QPS_Inc 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 🚀🚀🚀 We have signed a new launch contract for four additional satellites! A total of eight QPS-SARs will be launched aboard Electron in the future, with the first launch scheduled as early as next month in March. We will inform you of the individual launch schedules in due course ✨

@ESA_EO 5⃣ more Copernicus Sentinel satellites now have a ticket to space 🚀 A contract signed today between ESA & Arianespace has ensured rides into orbit for Sentinel-1D, Sentinel-2C, Sentinel-3C, the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide-A & B satellites

@mmx_jaxa_en Congratulations to the H3TF2 team for the successful launch of the H3 rocket on Saturday (02/17) from Tanegashima Space Center! The MMX mission will be launched on the H3 in FY 2026, and we are all now picturing our spacecraft starting its journey to Mars 🚀🛰 (🎥 Tokaji Ayumu)

@relativityspace From factory floor to launch site, the Terran R program is gaining serious momentum. Here’s the latest from May across design, build, test, and launch: 🖌️ Design: 17+ component-level Critical Design Reviews completed—rapidly releasing simpler parts like trays and manifolds ahead of structural assembly. ⚒️ Build: The LOX dome was successfully loaded onto the CFSW for its second weld, and the stage 2 transfer tube is now being welded—key steps toward completing the second stage tank. 🔥 Test: Aeon R engine qualification officially kicked off NASAStennis with 11+ hot fires in the books in May. 🚀 Launch: Cape Canaveral’s LC-16 saw construction milestones—like the completion of the east flume wall in the diverter pit

@Astra A Rocket 4 first stage tank returns to the factory after passing qualification testing. This qualification confirms that the primary structure of Rocket 4 can withstand stress and loads far beyond those seen in flight and is a major milestone in the overall launch system design

@DraperLab Draper has been selected by NASA to deliver a suite of three NASA-sponsored science payloads to the Schrödinger basin on the lunar surface, which is on the far side of the Moon—a first for NASA. Our team includes ispace, General Atomics & Karman Systima

@SpaceX NASA has selected Falcon Heavy to launch the Roman Space Telescope, which is designed to study dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and more. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than October 2026 from Launch Complex 39A in Florida

@NASA_Gateway Gateway is coming together 🤩 Following structural welding, the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module will ship from Italy to Gilbert, Arizona, where Northrop Grumman will outfit various components to support future NASA Artemis missions

@ESA_EO 5⃣ more Copernicus Sentinel satellites now have a ticket to space 🚀 A contract signed today between ESA & Arianespace has ensured rides into orbit for Sentinel-1D, Sentinel-2C, Sentinel-3C, the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide-A & B satellites

@NASA In order to safely carry out our upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon with astronauts, we are now targeting September 2025 for Artemis II and September 2026 for Artemis III. Safety is our top priority

@NASAJPL VERITAS = Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy
It's an orbiter designed to peer through Venus’ thick atmosphere with a suite of powerful instruments, creating global maps of the planet’s surface and detecting its changes

@northropgrumman Progress update: ✅ ✅ Our Gilbert, AZ Satellite Manufacturing Facility team has successfully completed electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing on the JPSS-3 weather & earth observation satellite we’re building with NASA for @NOAASatellites 🌎 🛰️

@Astra Astra announces launch task order for STP-S29B mission from the United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) for Rocket 4

@SpaceX SKY Perfect JSAT has selected Starship for launch of its Superbird-9 communications satellite!

@Firefly_Space This team is unstoppable! Firefly was awarded another NASA CLPS task order for a third lunar mission in 2028. This time we'll utilize our Blue Ghost lander, Elytra Dark orbital vehicle, and a rover to investigate the unexplored Gruithuisen Domes
During mission operations, Elytra will first deploy Blue Ghost into lunar orbit and then remain on orbit to provide long-haul communications. Blue Ghost will then land in the Gruithuisen Domes, deploy the rover, and operate six NASA payloads for 14 days on the lunar surface

@isaraerospace Isar Aerospace signs contract with Norwegian Space Agency Norweigian Space Agency (NOSA) for the launch of 2 satellites until 2028 from Andøya Space

@NASA_Gateway To support lunar surface missions, Gateway’s Deep Space Logistics Project managed out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center will deliver critical cargo, science experiments, and supplies using Gateway’s Logistics Services

@NASA_LSP 🚀 NASA has selected SpaceX to launch Dragonfly! NASA's Dragonfly mission is a rotorcraft that has eight rotors and flies like a large drone. It will explore Saturn's moon Titan examining dozens of promising locations. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and has a nitrogen-based atmosphere that is four times denser than Earth's Dragonfly will help advance astrobiology and advance our search for the building blocks of life!

@NASA_Gateway To support lunar surface missions, Gateway’s Deep Space Logistics Project managed out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center will deliver critical cargo, science experiments, and supplies using Gateway’s Logistics Services