Image credit: SpaceX Last week, our client Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, debuted its new Sherpa-AC, the latest variation in the company’s Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) portfolio. The Transporter 5 rideshare mission onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on May 25 and headed to a Sun Synchronous orbit, 525km. Several hours after [...]
A rendering of Spaceflight’s Sherpa-ES vehicle. Image courtesy of Spaceflight Inc. Last month, our client Spaceflight Inc. announced a breakthrough rideshare mission, “GEO Pathfinder,” which it plans to launch no earlier than Q4 2022. The mission will debut the company’s newest propulsive orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), Sherpa Escape (Sherpa-ES), which will use a creative flyby trajectory to slingshot around the moon and [...]