The Technische Universität Berlin and Exolaunch have signed a launch agreement for the SALSAT smallsat — under this agreement, Exolaunch is providing launch, mission management, and integration services for the […]
Archives for September 2020
Britain’s Skyrora Receives Iceland’s Leif Erikson Award for Environmental Efforts
Scottish rocket company, Skyrora, received Iceland’s environmental Leif Erikson Award. This occurred during its recent rocket launch mission in Iceland, where it sent its sub-orbital Skylark Micro to a height […]
Alliance Spacesystems Now Part Of Allied Composite Holdings
Applied Composites Holdings, LLC (“Applied Composites”) has acquired Alliance Spacesystems, LLC (“Alliance” or the “Company”), a provider of high-performance composite structures and assemblies for the commercial, civil and government satellite […]
Gaofen-11 02 Satellite Launched By China
China launched a new optical, remote-sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Monday, September 7, 2020. The Gaofen-11 02 satellite was launched by a […]
Thales Alenia Space Commissioned To Build SATRIA Satellite For Indonesian Consortium
Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT) and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), have signed a Preliminary Work Agreement to start the activities of the broadband telecommunication […]
Alba Orbital Rolls Out Their New Unicorn Satellite Payload Boards
Alba Orbital has introduced their new Unicorn-2 satellite payload boards, Unicorn-R and Unicorn-XL. Free PCB samples are available upon request to enable the planning for the next spacecraft missions immediately. […]
GMV Innovating Solutions Procures Nottingham Scientific Limited (NSL)
GMV Innovating Solutions Limited has signed a merger agreement with Nottingham Scientific Limited (NSL) — GMV trades in the aerospace, defense, ICT and intelligent-transportation-systems markets, while NSL is a UK […]
Joint Spaceflight Mission Planned By Made In Space Europe + Momentus… + An Agreement With FOSSA
Made In Space Europe, a Redwire subsidiary, now has an agreement with Momentus to jointly develop a robotic spaceflight mission that is scheduled to launch in 2022. Under the MoU, […]
A DirectTV + Dish Network Merger Poses Risks… Eutelsat Share Price Rosy—Jefferies Says Not So For SES
A report from Standard & Poors Market Intelligence (S&P) by Sarah Barry-James suggests that the potential for some sort of ‘merger’ between AT&T’s DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network poses […]
Third Kepler Space Data Backhaul Smallsat — TARS — Launched By Arianespace
Kepler’s LEO constellation has expanded with the successful launch of the company’s third satellite — the satellite, internally referred to as TARS, was launched onboard the Arianespace Vega SSMS (Small […]