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May 16, 2019 / Forbes / A startup company's new flexible-path spacecraft system is doing well during its first few weeks in orbit. York Space Systems announced Thursday (May 16) that its S-CLASS spacecraft bus passed initial testing or commissioning. All the more...

April 19, 2019 / SpaceNews / COLORADO SPRINGS and FREMONT, Calif. – Rocket Lab is preparing to launch in May three U.S. military satellites including the Army Harbinger mission as part of the Defense Department’s Rapid Agile Launch Initiative. Harbinger is designed to...

April 2, 1029 / Forbes / CubeSats have opened up low Earth orbit in ways that we couldn't have imagined since the first ones launched in 2003. They've ushered in a revolution of small spacecraft, each optimized to carry out a specific mission using small computer...

October 10, 2018 / Space News / Las Cruces, NM - Small launch vehicle company Firefly Aerospace announced Oct. 10 it’s partnering with smallsat developer York Space Systems to offer customers a combined package of satellite and launch services. The agreement between...

June 30, 2018 – Charles Beames, Executive
Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer at York Space Systems, speaks at Asteroid Day 2018.

May 22, 2018 / Popular Mechanics / The U.S. military's old way of thinking about satellites goes something like this: Pack as much technology as humanly possible onto every spacecraft because they are so expensive. Strap that big satellite onto a rocket. Once the...