A commitment to invest over £80 million in a UK Space Centre of Excellence in Ayrshire, Scotland, was made by both the UK and Scottish Governments, in partnership with South […]
Archives for November 2020
Sentinel-6 Soars Spacewards Via SpaceX Send-Off
At 18:17 (09:17 US Pacific time) on November 21, 2020, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air […]
U.S. Senate Promotes Private Sector Development to Deliver Broadband Connectivity to the Unconnected
AST & Science LLC (“AST SpaceMobile”) confirmed that the United States Senate Appropriations Committee’s recent support for the FCC to bring next-generation, satellite-based wireless communications to areas lacking mobile connectivity, and to those […]
UK Government’s Acquisition Of OneWeb Now Completed
The acquisition of global satellite communications company, OneWeb, has been completed as of Friday, November 20, following a successful UK Government bid in July of 2020 in a consortium with […]
AAC Clyde Space Now Engaged In New Constellation Services with ESA + UK Space Agency
AAC Clyde Space has embarked upon a three year project named xSPANCION with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop an innovative, satellite constellation service, including the manufacture of 10 […]
Six USAF Locations Are The Candidates Named To Host U.S. Space Command Headquarters
The Department of the U.S. Air Force, on behalf of the Office of Secretary of Defense, has selected six candidate locations for the U.S. Space Command Headquarters. The six locations […]
Northrop Grumman Celebrating 50 Years of Successful USAF Defense Support Operations
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Association’s Schriever Chapter #147, is proud to sponsor the 6th Annual Schriever Space Futures Forum, a live, virtual […]
Horizon Technologies’ First AMBER Cubesat Heads To AAC Clyde Space in Scotland
Horizon Technologies has shipped their first AMBER™ cubesat payload to AAC Clyde Space in Glasgow, Scotland — once the first payload arrives in Scotland, it will undergo testing and then […]
ORBCOMM SatIoT Assisting Argentinian Farmers With Agricultural Efficiency
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) has announced that Ponce, an Argentinian IoT company specializing in agricultural efficiency, is helping farmers throughout Latin America gain substantial cost savings and preserve water through […]
Rocket Lab’s “Return to Sender” Successfully Launches With 30 Smallsats
Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 16th Electron mission and deployed 30 small satellites to orbit, the largest number of satellites deployed by Electron to date on a single mission. The […]