BlueHalo Awarded Billion$ By USSF Space Rapid Capabilities Office
The U.S. Space Force's Space Rapid Capabilities Office competitively awarded an Other Transaction Agreement for the Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource program to BlueHalo, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for $1.4 billion May 21, 2022. SCAR will address the critical U.S. Space ...
Amazon Web Services Names The 10 Participants For Their 2022 AWS Space Accelerator Program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected 10 participants for the 2022 AWS Space Accelerator — this year’s finalists brought forward pioneering ideas that will draw valuable insights from the depths of the ocean floor to the surface of the moon ...
NanoAvionics Alpha Smallsat Demo To Be Powered By Gama Solar Sails
NanoAvionics has been contracted by Gama for a demonstration of Gama’s solar sails propulsion system in LEO. Under the mission agreement, NanoAvionics will provide its 6U smallsat bus, payload integration services, a satellite testing campaign, launch services and satellite operations ...
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Imagery, Optical, Radar Imaging, RF, SAR, SAR, Satellites
Ursa Space’s Image Archive Ordering And New Tasking Now Available For Purchase On Amazon Web Services Data Exchange
Each week, Ursa Space ingests approximately 25,000 SAR images into its image services database, equivalent to 1.5 petabytes of total archival imagery. Customers can now purchase Ursa Space’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery via application programming interface (API) on ...
INTEGRASYS’ New Luxembourg Office
INTEGRASYS, opened a new Luxembourg facility in Kirchberg, Luxembourg's financial district. INTEGRASYS SARL is responsible for commercializing INTEGRASYS technologies in the heart of Europe and innovating in R&D. INTEGRASYS founded INTEGRASYS SARL The software company has expansion plans, to achieve ...
Spaceflight’s New Sherpa-AC Satellite Servicing Spacecraft Is Being Prepared For Launch
Spaceflight is preparing to debut the company's new Sherpa-AC vehicle on the upcoming Transporter 5 rideshare mission. Spaceflight’s Sherpa-AC (named for its “Attitude Control” capabilities) augments the base Sherpa model (the free flying Sherpa-FX) with key capabilities that include a ...
Airbus Continues Logistics Support Of U.S. Army And Potential Contract Value Of More Than $1.5 Billion
The contract includes a six-month base and 4.5 option years, with a potential total value of more than $1.5 billion. Airbus has signed a follow-on Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) contract with the U.S. Army to provide spare parts, material, and ...
The Airbus Copernicus CRISTAL Mission Satellite Built For The ESA Successfully Passes The PDR
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimetry mission CRISTAL is clearly on track. Following an intensive review process, the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that the preliminary design of the satellite meets all system requirements. Artistic rendition of ...
Africa, Constellation, Construction, Engineering, Gateway, Installation, Satellite Network Portal (SNP), SmallSat
OneWeb’s 1st West African Satellite Network Portal Completed By TinSky
TinSky Connect has successfully completed the installation of 15 OneWeb antennas and customer provided equipment at a Satellite Network Portal (SNP) or gateway facility in Accra, Ghana. OneWeb is a global communications network powered through space, enabling connectivity for governments, ...
KBR Receives Million$$ Task Order From DoD To Protect U.S.A.F. Systems + Software
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has been awarded a $44 million task order to protect U.S. Air Force systems and software from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. This effort directly supports the Air Force Life Cycle Management (AFLCMC) Cyber ...
U.S. Air Force Conducts Successful Hypersonic Weapon Test
A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress successfully released an AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, off the Southern California coast on May 14th. Following separation from the aircraft, the ARRW’s booster ignited and burned for expected duration, achieving hypersonic ...
Teledyne Flir Intros Their New High Def Surveillance Systems
Teledyne FLIR Defense announced at SOFIC 2022 (booth #621) the official launch of SeaFLIR® 240 and TacFLIR® 240, the latest additions to the company's line of high-definition, multi-spectral surveillance systems developed for a variety of maritime and land-based operations. With ...
Thales Alenia Space Satellites Are Honored At Prix Bulles Cardin Awards For Surveying The Planet’s Changing Climate
Some unexpected encounters, such as that between Pierre Cardin and Thales Alenia Space, open up new avenues for raising public awareness of the urgent need to develop a profitable and virtuous ecology. The key role of satellites in surveying Earth ...
