The combined Landsat-9 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) Flight System (EFS) team recently passed a major program milestone for NASA, known as Design Status Review 3. After […]
Archives for January 2021
Kymeta Receives $30 Million Investment From Hanwha
Kymeta recently announced that Hanwha Systems (HSC) signed an agreement to invest $30 million to back the development of Kymeta’s next generation solutions, the Kymeta u8™ and Kymeta Connect™. The […]
Satelliot Involved With 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) + Establishment Of New Timetable + SATCOM Specs
Space and satellite communications continue to gain weight in the telecommunications industry. This is demonstrated by the fact that non-terrestrial networks are increasingly taken into account by bodies as important […]
UltiSat Announces Re-Org
UltiSat has realigned their organization and leadership to better position the firm for the evolving customer mission landscapes — the move includes several senior leadership appointments and a reorganization around […]
Satellite Development Program Contract Rec’d By Kratos’ Microwave Electronic Products Division
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) has announced that Kratos’ Microwave Electronic Products Division (KMED) has recently received a development contract award related to a new, planned, next […]
SpaceX Is The Recipient Of A Multi-Million $$$ Award From The SDA
A nearly $155 million award by the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has been made to Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) for launch services from Vandenberg Air Force Base for […]
USGIF Assembles Consortium Under NGA’s GLAP Initiative
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has assembled an Academic Consortium (UAC) to respond to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)’s GEOINT Learning through Academic Programs (GLAP) initiative. The GLAP […]
SENER Aeroespacial To Provide MGSE Equipment For ESA’s PLATO Mission
SENER Aeroespacial in Poland has signed a contract under which it will design, manufacture and test devices to support the integration of the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) […]
Astroscale Moves from Manufacturing and Ships ELSA-d Spacecraft to Launch Site
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), did ‘heavy lifting’ right up until the end of 2020 in preparation of their scheduled March 2021 launch. The company, a major player in securing long-term […]
Iodine Electric Propulsion To Become A Critical Subsystem For SAR Constellations
ThrustMe and Spacety have announced a new space launch, the 3rd in an ongoing series — this time, Spacety launched their Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, Hisea-1, which is the […]