Vega C Will Not Return to Flight Until Late 2023
An independent inquiry commission investigating the loss of the Vega C VV22 mission on 21 December 2022 identified a flaw in the carbon-carbon material...
ArianeGroup Invest €6M More into MaiaSpace
According to public filings, ArianeGroup invested €6 million more into MaiaSpace in late January. Filings indicate that MaiaSpace issued an additional 1.5 million shares...
Airbus to put Space Situational Awareness Startup to the Test
European aerospace and defence giant Airbus has signed a contract with French space situational awareness startup Share My Space. Under the contract, Airbus will...
Mysterious new Celestia nanosatellite production facility announced
Spanish launch and nanosatellite manufacturing startup Celestia Aerospace announced yesterday that it had entered into an agreement with the City of Sabadell and Consorci...
2023 ESA Space Rider update from programme manager Dante Galli
The maiden flight of ESA's reusable Space Rider spacecraft is now slated for the fourth quarter of 2024 aboard a Vega-C rocket. This represents...
Isar Signs First Launch Contract with a US-Based Customer
US-based in-orbit space logistics company Spaceflight Inc. has signed a launch services agreement with German launch startup Isar Aerospace. This is the first time...
MaiaSpace CEO admits reusing small launchers is a challenging prospect
During an interview with French television channel B SMART, MaiaSpace CEO Yohann Leroy described the challenges of implementing reusability in a small launch vehicle....
RFA secure exclusive access to SaxaVord launch pad
German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has secured exclusive access to Launch Pad Fredo at the SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland. The multi-year partnership included...
Top European Launch Companies of 2022—The European Spaceflight Power Ranking
Ten years ago the European launch market consisted of Arianespace and Avio (which has been around since 1908) with the former managing launch operations...
Predicting 2023 European Launch Startup Funding Trends
2022 saw a 60% reduction in the funding raised by European launch startups. Although that reduction was driven largely by Isar Aerospace not securing...
