Virgin Orbit’s Latest Mission Successfully Reaches Above The Clouds With Seven Satellites
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) successfully deployed into orbit all seven customer satellites onboard the company's LauncherOne rocket during the Above the Clouds mission. Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket separates from the 747 carrier aircraft, Cosmic Girl, and the Above The Clouds ...
The SmallSat Symposium Silicon Valley 2022 Event Has More Exhibitors Than Ever Before Experienced
One of the more excellent announcements any company can broadcast is when they have surpassed a previous record or set a new milestone or completed a project with better than expected results. Such has now occurred for the annual SmallSat ...
SpaceX’s Transporter-3 Mission Launch Is Successful — 105 Spacecraft Climb To Their Orbits
SpaceX's January 13th, Falcon 9 launch has successfully lifted the Transporter-3 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 29-minute launch window opened at 10:25 a.m. EST, or 15:25 UTC. Falcon 9’s first ...
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Loft Orbital Signs Airbus To Build 15 Arrow Satellite Platforms
Airbus has been contracted to supply space start-up Loft Orbital with more than 15 satellite platforms derived from the Airbus Arrow platform, the foundational satellite platform of the OneWeb constellation. There are 394 Airbus Arrow platforms on-orbit for the OneWeb ...
Teaming Up: Mission Microwave + AST Microwave To Advance GaN SSAs For Teleports + Gateways
Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, and AST Microwave, Inc. have drafted a teaming arrangement to help customers take advantage of Mission Microwave’s advanced Gallium Nitride (GaN) Solid State Amplifiers in teleports and gateways. The companies have worked closely to develop integrated, ...
Success For NearSpace Launch’s Smallsat Orbit Acquisition Via Virgin Orbit’s Mission
NearSpace Launch Inc. (NSL) is celebrating their 3U smallsat launch by Virgin Orbit’s third operational mission, along with six other customers, on January 13, 2022. Photo of the GEARRS-3 cubesat, courtesy of the company. GEARRS is the third cubesat to ...
The Fifth Ocean Monitoring Smallsat For Unseenlabs Is Successfully Launched
An Unseenlab's smallsat launch, their fifth ocean monitoring spacecraft, occurred on January 13th and is part of Unseenlabs' plan to have 20 to 25 satellites in orbit by 2025. After launching with Arianespace in August of 2021, Unseenlabs this time ...
Pixxel Partners With Major Mining Company Rio Tinto To Investigate Hyperspectral Satellite Technology Benefits
Pixxel, a company engaged Earth-imaging technology, has announced an early adoption partnership with Rio Tinto. Pixxel’s imaging satellites, capable of 5 meter hyperspectral imaging, will help Rio Tinto assess the benefits the technology may provide in mineral exploration, monitoring active ...
Investments Into Atomos Space Garners Million$ For OTV Tech Development
Atomos Space has announced that an investment from Cantos Ventures has brought the company's total capital raised in 2021 to $5 million — Cantos, an experienced deep tech investor, joined this round with another undisclosed aerospace investor to realize the ...
To Celebrate And Honor
To honor, and celebrate Martin Luther King, the Satnews offices will be closed on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 17, 2022, returning on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 ...
Kleos Space’s Patrol Mission Smallsat Launch Remanifested For April 2022
Kleos Space's Patrol Mission smallsat. Kleos Space S.A (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) (DaaS) company has announced that the company's Kleos Patrol Mission (KSF2) satellites, planned to launch in January of 2022, have been remanifested to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-4 ...
DEWA-SAT 1 Gains Orbit Via The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rideshare Mission Launch
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has launched the DEWA-SAT 1 smallsat in collaboration with NanoAvionics, becoming the world’s first utility to use smallsats to improve the maintenance and planning of electricity and water networks — this achievement underlines DEWA’s ...
Series A Round Relays Million$$ To Startup Mangata Networks
Mangata Networks has closed a $33 million Series A round led by US-based venture capital firm Playground Global to continue its mission to transform the way the world interacts with information. This closing manifests the truly global nature of the ...
