First Free Flying Commercial Space Station — Starlab — To Be Developed By Nanoracks, Voyager Space + Lockheed Martin
Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has formed a team to develop the first-ever, free flying, commercial space station. The space station, known as Starlab, will be a continuously crewed commercial platform, dedicated to conducting ...
UPDATE 1: Thales Alenia Space Built SES-17 + SYRACUSE 4A Satellites Successfully Launched By Arianespace
The Arianespace VA255 launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Photo is courtesy of Arianespace. On Sunday, October 24, at 02:10 UTC, Ariane 5 lifted off from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) and successfully orbited two satellites built by ...
EXOLAUNCH Expands Their Operations Into North America + Names U.S. CEO
EXOLAUNCH has expanded their business operations and sales in North America by opening offices in Denver, Colorado, and Washington, DC. To lead its US operations (Exolaunch, Inc. doing business as Exolaunch USA), capture new market opportunities, and continue business growth ...
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China Launches A Test Space Debris Mitigation Satellite
The Chinese Xinhua news agency is reporting that China has successfully launched a new satellite to test and verify space debris mitigation technologies. Named the Shijian-21, the satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan ...
ACCESS.SPACE Alliance’s Sobering Account Of Europe’s SmallSat Industries’ Challenges
A sobering realistic look at the many challenges in the European small satellite industry. ACCESS.SPACE Alliance (ASA), which represents the small satellite sector, has published a position paper on the current state of space financing in Europe. In the paper, ...
Three New Directors Named By ESA
The ESA Council has appointed three new ESA directors for Commercialization, Industry and Procurement, for Earth Observation Programs as well as for Navigation. This occurs in a context where boosting commercialization for a green and digital Europe is one of ...
Advanced Hypersonic Tech Demo’d By US Navy + US Army At NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Via Sandia Nat’l Labs
The U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the U.S. Army Hypersonic Program Office (AHPO) have successfully conducted a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on October 20, 2021. The test launch of a ...
Forrester’s Digest: SES-17 Launch Delayed / EUTELSAT + UHD Importance / Intelsat’s Bankruptcy Exit Plan Hearing Delayed
The launch of SES-17 has been delayed. Arianespace stated that investigations are ongoing in order to identify a new launch date from the Kourou spaceport. The Ariane 5 launch vehicle and spacecraft SES-17 and fellow passenger SYRACUSE 4A are in ...
NASA Awards Millions$$ To Underfunded Jurisdictions
NASA has awarded $28 million to fund the next five years of research infrastructure development across 28 jurisdictions. The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a part of NASA’s Office of Stem Engagement and based out of the agency’s ...
Intellian and Inmarsat’s Newest FleetBroadband Terminals For L-Band ELERA
New FB250 and Fleet One terminals enhance Inmarsat service offering Intellian has received type approval from Inmarsat for its new FB250 and Fleet One L-band terminals, making it one of the first to market with user terminals for operation on ...
Spacepath Communications’ New SATCOM Amplifier To Debut At CABSAT
SpacePath 650W Ka-Band high-power amplifier There is a new range of outdoor, uplink amplifiers with unique lightweight design on display in Dubai for first time. SpacePath Communications (‘SpacePath’) a dedicated, European-based SATCOM amplifier manufacturer and equipment supplier, will be showcasing ...
General Atomics ASI Completes Transfer Of MQ-9A Reaper UAS To The U.S.M.C.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed the transfer of two, MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to the U.S. Marine Corps — the two aircraft have been operated by the USMC since 2018 under a Company ...
D-Orbit’s Nebula Cloud Platform Offering Is Successfully Demo’d In Space
D-Orbit has successfully completed the orbital testing of Nebula, a cloud platform designed to provide distributed, high-performance, data analytics computing and storage capabilities in space. Nebula is a hardware-software environment that enables end-users to uplink and run software and AI/ML ...
