Teams can be created when two specialist space-sector firms from opposite sides of the globe sign a Teaming Agreement and officially kick off a collaborative relationship that focuses on business […]
Archives for November 2020
USSF’s SMC Receives First M-Code Order For Military GPS From Germany
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Production Corps achieved a major milestone on September 30 when the Global Positioning System (GPS) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) office received its first […]
UK Space Center of Excellence In Scotland Receives Financial Commitment Of Millions Of Pounds
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 […]
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 […]