https://spacewatch.global/tag/launcher/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:00:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/launcher/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2023/02/vast-acquires-launcher-to-support-space-station-development/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:00:55 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46786 Vast, a start-up developing artificial-gravity space stations, has acquired launch services company Launcher, located in California to help it develop long-term human habitation in space. Vast is developing an artificial gravity station, greater in volume than the International Space Station, in low Earth orbit. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/02/launcher-orbiter-sn1-mission-update/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46732 On January 3, 2023 at 09:55 ET, Launcher successfully launched its first spacecraft (Orbiter SN1) to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 (Transporter-6). Upon successful separation on Launcher’s 24” separation system, the spacecraft powered up and communicated to the ground (command uplink and telemetry downlink) during its first scheduled ground station pass. The Company also communicated with the vehicle for the duration of expected battery life.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/10/astra-receives-delisting-notice-from-nasdaq/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=43857 Astra, a small rocket-building company, has disclosed that it received a delisting warning from the American stock exchange, Nasdaq, after its stock went below $1 per share for 30 consecutive days, contravening the exchange’s requirements.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/03/spacewatchgl-opinion-the-resurrection-of-linkspace/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=31046 In this day and age of constant internet connectivity, thousands of notifications being thrown at us, and the ever-present threat of Covid-19, it can be easy to forget that we are in fact in Lent, the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/spacewatchgl-interview-simon-gwozdz-equatorial-space-industries/ Sun, 25 Mar 2018 07:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7940 Last week, SpaceWatch Global attended the Satellite 2018 event held in Washington, D.C. and one of the features of the event that also ran last year, was ‘Startup Space’, a competition that sees 20 Newspace new entrants, given 5 minutes to pitch their business to a panel of highly accomplished space professionals, investors, thought leaders, and fellow entrepreneurs. During the day-long event, I came across Equatorial Space Industries, which is developing the Volans launcher, capable of delivering 35-70Kg of payload for under $1m. This team of 15, based in Singapore, are looking to change the economics of getting small satellites to space and to providing much-needed dedicated launches to a small satellite market in need.]]>