Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) successfully deployed 12 satellites on January 24, 2021. The SpaceX Falcon 9 ride-sharing mission carried three different, SFL-designed smallsat platforms into orbit for three separate commercial […]
Archives for January 2021
Autonomous Precision Landing Re-Entry Capsule Validated by SpaceWorks
SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI), along with its partners Earthly Dynamics, LLC (EDC) and Aerial Delivery Solutions, LLC (ADS), has validated autonomous and precision landing of a space-based payload return capsule […]
Renewal + Expansion Of Eutelsat’s Capacity Contract With Liquid Telecom
Liquid Telecom, Africa’s leading telecoms group, has renewed and expanded their Ku-band capacity agreements on Eutelsat Communications’ (Euronext Paris: ETL) EUTELSAT 7B satellite. Under this multi-year, multi transponder agreement, Liquid […]
Momentus Founder + Director Resigns – New CEO Named
Chief Executive Officer Mikhail Kokorich has resigned as the Director and Founder of Momentus. The departure of Kokorich is see as the company attempting to ameliorate their regulatory reviews by […]
Rocket Fuel You Can Drink?
Tethers Unlimited, Inc., (TUI) announced the NASA PTD-1 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator) CubeSat, showcasing TUI’s HYDROS® Propulsion System, has launched. The PTD-1 spacecraft marks the first in-orbit demonstration of a water electrolysis […]
More Than 20 Spanish Companies Join Forces to Promote a Constellation of 30 Earth Observation Satellites
More than twenty Spanish companies and entities have joined forces to design, manufacture and launch a constellation of 30 Earth observation satellites; an unprecedented R&D&I project that will involve an […]
Marlink Celebrates Large Increase in Customer Contracts
Marlink celebrated a large increase in new customer contracts. From enterprise customers increase by 68 percent between January and December, with new customer contracts driving record installation numbers. The 185 […]
Contracts for EUR €1.47 Billion Go to Aerospace Giants for Galileo’s Second Gen Satellites
The European Commission awarded two contracts for 12 satellites — 6 satellites each — for a total of EUR €1.47 billion to ThalesAleniaSpace (Italy) and Airbus Defence & Space (Germany) […]
Spaceflight’s SXRS-3 Mission Takes 16 Smallsat Payloads To Orbit Via The SpaceX Transporter-1 Flight
Spaceflight Inc. successfully launched and deployed 16 payloads, including 15 from its next-generation orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), Sherpa-FX1, aboard the SpaceX Transporter-1 mission. Dubbed SXRS-3 by Spaceflight, the mission launched […]
Infrastructure Funding Makes A Comeback + Tech Giants Are Hungry For Space Data
The Q4 2020 Space Investment Quarterly is now available… key highlights from the report include… With another $5.7B invested into 80 space companies in Q4, there has now been $177.7B of equity investment into 1,343 unique companies in the space […]