A Falcon 9 lifted off Feb. 21 with a 4,100-kilogram communications satellite, a 600-kilogram lunar lander and a 60-kilogram experimental smallsat. Credit: Jordan Sirokie for SpaceNews.

SpaceX launches satellites, moon mission on Falcon 9

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Indonesian communications satellite, an Israeli lunar lander and a U.S. Air Force smallsat launched Feb. 21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Air Force smallsat to fly on upcoming Falcon 9 launch

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An experimental Air Force small satellite intended to test space situational awareness technologies will be a secondary payload on the upcoming Falcon 9 launch of a commercial communications satellite and lunar lander.

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George Stafford, Blue Canyon president and chief executive, at the Small Satellite Conference at Utah State University in Logan, Utah Aug. 7, 2018. Credit: SpaceNews/Keith Johnson

Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded BCT a contract to define bus and payload requirements for Blackjack, a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit to offer persistent global communications and Earth observation.

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