Articles about Spaceflight Industries

Spaceflight Inc. hails a pair of successful launches as it deals with frictions in SpaceX relationship

Thanks to its role in handling pre-launch logistics, Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. can claim a share of the credit for two… Read More

BlackSky satellite data venture makes a $1.5B deal to go public in SPAC merger

BlackSky Holdings, which is operating a growing fleet of Earth observation satellites as well as a cloud-based platform to analyze… Read More

SpaceX puts record 143 satellites in orbit, with Spaceflight playing a supporting role

SpaceX set a record for the number of satellites sent into orbit by a single rocket, and that’s not the… Read More

BlackSky will add sharper focus and night vision to future Earth-watching satellites

BlackSky’s satellites are already producing frequently updated, high-resolution views of planet Earth — but now the company says its next-generation… Read More

SpaceX launches 57 stealth satellites for Starlink network, plus a pair for BlackSky

After weeks of delay, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent up 57 more satellites for its Starlink broadband internet constellation,… Read More

Seattle’s BlackSky and other satellite imaging ventures bear witness to devastation in Beirut

The aftermath of this week’s Beirut chemical explosion has been covered in triplicate by U.S. satellite imaging systems — with… Read More

Japanese firms finish acquisition of Spaceflight, with BlackSky satellite venture going its own way

Japan’s Mitsui & Co., working in partnership with Yamasa Co. Ltd., has completed the acquisition of Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. from… Read More

How BlackSky’s Spectra geospatial data platform uses AI to make sense of satellite images

How do you know when a region’s economy has recovered from the coronavirus pandemic? You could wait for the verdict… Read More

Spaceflight Industries strikes deal to sell rideshare launch business; will focus on BlackSky satellites

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries says it has signed a deal to sell Spaceflight Inc., its satellite rideshare launch subsidiary, to one… Read More

Rocket Lab launches Japanese satellite that’s designed to spit out shooting stars for Olympics

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from its New Zealand launch pad today, sending a shooting-star satellite and six other… Read More

SpaceX employees cheering at Redmond satellite facility

How the Seattle area became a hotspot for satellite builders — and what comes next

Seattle may not be the best place to put a launch pad, but the region is turning into one of… Read More

Spaceflight Industries is raising more cash as satellite deals heat up on the final frontier

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, which has taken on a string of high-profile satellite missions over the past year, is in the… Read More

Spaceflight and Rocket Lab will put a Japanese shooting-star satellite into orbit

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s handling the pre-launch logistics for a Japanese satellite that’s designed to spray artificial shooting stars into… Read More

Spaceflight gets first crack at India’s new SSLV rocket – and puts up a ‘sold out’ sign

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s purchased the first commercial launch of India’s next-generation Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, or SSLV, and has… Read More

Good news, bad news for Spaceflight: Satellite rideshare market is heating up

Seattle-based Spaceflight has made a name for itself by putting together bunches of small satellites for launch on someone else’s… Read More

Rocket Lab launches seven small satellites from New Zealand for Seattle’s Spaceflight

Rocket Lab executed a picture-perfect first launch for Seattle’s Spaceflight Inc., putting BlackSky’s Global-3 Earth-observing satellite and six other small… Read More

BlackSky revs up satellite operations and teams up with HawkEye 360 and NRO

Seattle-based BlackSky is ramping up commercial operations of its satellite-based geospatial intelligence platform, thanks to newly announced deals with the… Read More

Spaceflight strikes a deal to put rideshare satellites on Relativity Space’s rocket

Seattle-based Spaceflight has signed a launch services agreement to put payloads on Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket. Relativity, a startup… Read More

BlackSky shares time-lapse satellite views

Seattle-based BlackSky says the first two Earth-imaging satellites in its Global constellation are up and running, with the ability to… Read More

India’s PSLV rocket puts 29 satellites in orbit, just days after anti-satellite test

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has put a military satellite and 28 secondary payloads into orbit, with Seattle-based Spaceflight and… Read More

Tethers Unlimited says two-way radio for small satellites has aced first orbital test

Tethers Unlimited weathered a wave of bad news over the winter, but now some good news has bloomed. The company,… Read More

LeoStella satellite venture hands over CEO reins to aerospace executive Mike Hettich

TUKWILA, Wash. — Mike Hettich has finally completed his transition from chief learning officer to chief executive officer at LeoStella, the… Read More

Seattle-area Earth observation satellite factory LeoStella is open for business

When you hear the words “satellite factory,” LeoStella‘s operations in a nondescript office park south of Seattle probably isn’t the image… Read More

Seattle rideshare space company wins a shout-out for disrupting launch industry

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has taken the spotlight in a research note from Morgan Stanley for disrupting the process of putting… Read More

Israeli lunar lander passes tests in preparation for SpaceX launch to the moon

The managers of Israel’s first mission to the moon say their lunar lander has passed a crucial set of tests… Read More

FCC levies $900,000 fine against Swarm Technologies for unlawful satellite launch

The Federal Communications Commission says Swarm Technologies must pay a $900,000 fine and be subject to increased scrutiny for having… Read More

Spaceflight signs up Brazil for Amazonia-1 satellite launch on Indian rocket in 2020

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s struck one of its biggest deals for a satellite launch with Brazil’s space research institute, focusing… Read More

Images start to stream in from new crop of satellites after two launch extravaganzas

More than 100 payloads have been put into orbit over the past couple of weeks, including 64 satellites riding a… Read More

Third time’s the charm: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches a record 64 satellites for Spaceflight

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Seattle-based Spaceflight’s first-ever dedicated rideshare mission, a satellite extravaganza aimed at placing 64 spacecraft in… Read More

Spaceflight’s 64-satellite extravaganza inches closer to SpaceX launch

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is closing in on what’s shaping up as a grand convergence in commercial space. Spaceflight, which handles launch… Read More