Archives for April 2020

    ETL Systems’ Falcon range has new additions. The addition of new frequency converter modules and extension of conversion frequencies include the introduction of modules covering K-, C-, X-, L- and IF-band conversions has expanded upon ETL’s existing Ka- and Ku-band conversion offering.   Adding to the developing collection of RF distribution products available from […]

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle roll-Out at Launch Complex 2. Rocket Lab has closed the transaction to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a leading provider of high-quality, flight-proven satellite hardware. Rocket Lab announced the execution of the agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary on March 16, 2020, pending customary closing conditions and satisfying The Investment Canada Act review […]

This image visualizes the dramatic change in vessel traffic using heatmaps of the data. This is a comparison in X-band navigation radar for eleven days in early March before the countrywide lockdown and eleven days in the middle of March, when the lockdown was in force. Image is courtesy of HawkEye 360. New data from […]

Benchmark’s DFAST warm-gas thruster. Benchmark Space Systems DFAST warm-gas thruster (scalable for 1U-12U spacecraft) has completed the subsystem qualification test campaign and has been integrated into the company’s on-orbit demonstration smallsat, BSS1. Range safety was smooth sailing for our ‘unpressurized, inert’ launch mode. In the same week the FCC regulatory policy vote took place, the […]

Infostellar, a ground-segment-as-a-service (GSaaS) provider, has raised a total of $3.5 million in convertible bonds with existing investors Airbus Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund, while welcoming new investors Daiwa Energy Infrastructure, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, and Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance — as a result, the cumulative amount of funds raised now reaches $11.5 million. Infostellar […]

Equatorial Space and Empyrean Space have reached an agreement for the suborbital launch of space burial services using the company’s upcoming Dorado sounding rockets, using the company’s proprietary hybrid rocket propulsion system. The services, which will see its passengers travel to 110-200 kilometer altitudes, have been under preparations since January earlier this year, and will […]

At a November 2019 Air Force Space Pitch Day, Lt. Gen. John Thompson addresses the audience. Photo is courtesy of the U.S.A.F., Van De Ha. Rachel S. Cohen The Senior Editor for Air Force Magazine, the official publication of the Air Force Association, Ms. Rachel S. Cohen, has reported that space acquisition officials in the […]

  President and CEO Andrew Rush   Made In Space, Inc. (MIS), the industry leader for space manufacturing technology, today announced that the company’s President and CEO Andrew Rush has been appointed by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to serve as a representative member on the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) and as Chair of its Regulatory and […]

SpaceX is preparing to test a new sunshade for its Starlink satellites. Assuming all goes it planned, the new sunshade will make the satellites less visible. While that may sound problematic, it’s actually a good thing because it allows astronomers to peer into space with greater clarity. Starlink, of course, is a project that involves […]

    Equatorial Space, of Singapore, has plans to launch a rocket, the Dorado, named after the swordfish constellation, before the end of this year with all considerations for COVID-19 and the situation permitting with work and travel restrictions. This will be Equatorial Space’s second rocket after the Low Altitude Demonstrator. The Dorado rocket will be the […]