Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced the successful launch of the Kepler-4 and Kepler-5 cubesats — and the company played an instrumental role in the development of the production workflow […]
Archives for October 2020
Russia Investing In A SpaceX Competitive Rocket
Russia will be investing $800 million on a new rocket system that will compete directly with SpaceX and that company’s reusable Falcon 9 launchers, according to Russian news agency, TASS. […]
Starlink To Start Soon + DirecTV Seeking Buyer
Elon Musk, in a tweet after the latest Starlink launch, said that once this batch of 60 satellites are in their correct orbital positions then a test broadband service will […]
Viasat Enlists New Link16 Capabilities For Mission-Critical Ops
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has successfully integrated Link 16 Cryptographic Modernization (Crypto Mod) capability into its KOR-24A Small Tactical Terminal (STT), ahead of the U.S. Government mandate, to help ensure […]
Exolaunch Signs Long-Term Launch Agreement With SpaceX
Exolaunch has signed a long-term launch agreement with SpaceX to secure Falcon 9 capacity for launching smallsats as part of SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program. Under the agreement, Exolaunch manifests multiple […]
Airbus + Earthcube To Develop Defence Site Monitoring
Airbus has joined forces with Earthcube, a French company specializing in the analysis of geospatial data using Artificial Intelligence (AI), to develop and market “Defence Site Monitoring,” an online solution […]
Day Three of Satellite Innovations 2020 Virtual — Impactful Sessions
During the final day — Day Three — of Satellite Innovation 2020 Virtual, the first session was entitled Impacts of New Constellations. Dr. Chris Boshuizen of DCVS – Data Collective […]
KSAT’s Smallsat Network Doubles The Number Of Supports Per Month
KSAT has delivered more than 20,000 passes on the KSATLITE network in September — this is all-time-high for LITE, doubling the number of supports per month since January of this […]
Northrop Grumman and NASA Complete Environmental Testing on Webb Space Telescope
The environmental testing on James Webb Space Telescope is complete. The two companies, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and NASA, can high five for all of their successful work involved. […]
UK’s National Satellite Test Facility Takes Shape
The building is finally underway, and RAL has finished the exterior of the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility that will become the first of its kind in the UK to […]