Space ISAC stands up Operational Watch Center to keep pace with proliferating threats to space systems
Space ISAC, the organization's founding board of directors and executive director, have launched Space ISAC’s Operational Watch Center and the organization's initial operational capability — this is a crucial milestone for Space ISAC, whose executive, operational, and administrative functions are ...
NASA moves forward with new Moon to Mars Program Office and the agency’s head of office
NASA has established the new Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington to carry out the agency’s human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of humanity. Amit Kshatriya will serve as the agency’s ...
UPDATE: “Abort, abort, abort” as SpaceX’s launch of SDA’s Tranche 0 mission was scrubbed at T-3
UPDATE: Orders came, "Abort, abort, abort," as the Tranche 0 launch scrubbed at T-3. SpaceX is now targeting Friday, March 31 at 7:29 a.m. PT (14:29 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 mission ...
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Acquisitions, Analysis / Reports, Business Moves, Constellations, Data Acquisition, Earth Observation (EO), Image analysis, Planet Labs, SmallSat
Planet to enhance their data analysis platform through the acquisition of Sinergise tech
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Holding Sinergise d.o.o. (“Sinergise”), a developer platform for Earth Observation (EO) data. By reducing the complexity of analysis and insights extraction, as well as the cost ...
The second Plan-S smallsat captures a selfie while on-orbit
Plan-S, Turkey's leading, private initiative in the satellite and space technologies industry, took a selfie from space (see image above, courtesy of the company) of their Connecta satellite. Türkiye’s fast-growing space company was established in 2021 and completed its first ...
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Mouser Electronics and Astrocast’s distribution agreement will deliver satellite IoT components
Astrocast, a nanosatellite IoT network operator, signed a distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics, a global distributor of semiconductors and electronic components, to stock and distribute Astrocast’s Satellite IoT (SatIoT) technology. Astrocast’s product offering: Astronode S and its Astronode Patch Antenna, ...
Speedcast and International Cruise Line’s milestone supplies highest continuous capacity in cruise history
Speedcast, a communications and IT services provider, announced the successful implementation of a specialized connectivity solution delivering unparalleled data rates for an international cruise line’s newest vessel. The innovative, satellite-to-ship tracking solution was deployed for the ship, which runs on ...
ESA–European Geosciences Union 2023 Excellence Award winners
Honoring individual scientists and teams of scientists that have contributed to the innovative use of Earth observation data, ESA and the European Geosciences Union (EGU) are happy to announce the winners of this year’s prestigious Excellence Award. Susanna Ebmeier, from ...
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Arklow Shipping commits to long term contract with Satcom Global
Satcom Global has announced that Arklow Shipping has signed a new, fleetwide, long-term agreement for AuraNow VSAT and has committed new build vessels to install the solution that offers unlimited data with flexible bandwidth. From their new state of the ...
First Eurostar Neo satellite reaches operational electric orbit
The first Eurostar Neo satellite built under ESA’s Neosat Partnership Project has completed its electric orbit raising to reach its geostationary position some 36,000 kilometers above Earth. The satellite — called Eutelsat Hotbird 13F — was developed and built by ...
Appointments, Board of Directors, Business Moves, Defense, Engineering, Military, President, Regulations, Spectrum, Speedcast, SSPI
SSPI’s new Chairwoman and President of Board of Directors come from ManSat and Speedcast
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) announced its Board of Directors has elected Katherine Gizinski, CEO of ManSat, as its Chairwoman, and James Trevelyan, Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Emerging Markets for Speedcast, as its President. The appointments take effect ...
Septentrio launches Agnostic Corrections partner program
Septentrio has started their Agnostic Corrections Partner Program that facilitates the use of Septentrio receivers with various, high-accuracy services that offer varying levels of accuracy, coverage and delivery methods. This also allows integrators and users to select the service which ...
SDA posts solicitation for Sabre payloads
The Space Development Agency (SDA) seeks industry solutions for a payload system that will add multiple new mission capability demonstrations to the NExT constellation. The payload system will deliver three (3) independent functional capabilities, collectively referred to as the Sabre ...
