Sky UK has extended their contract with SES for satellite capacity in a new agreement that will add over 90 million euros in secured backlog — this renewal is in addition to capacity already under contract that extends through 2027. By the close of the renewed contract, Sky UK will have been an SES customer […]
Archives for February 2021
China Launches Yaogan-31 Remote Sensing Satellites
The third group of China’s Yaogan-31 remote sensing satellites were launched into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Wednesday, February 24. The satellites were carried by a Long March-4C rocket and this was the 361st flight mission of this carrier rocket series, the launch center […]
Spaceflight Celebrating Ten Years Of Smallsat Launch Accomplishments
Spaceflight Inc. is celebrating their 10th anniversary. Since the company’s founding, the company has launched more than 300 satellites across 36 missions on eight different launch vehicles. During Spaceflight’s 10 years in business, the company has evolved from launch brokerage to providing comprehensive launch and mission management services for payloads of all sizes, across a […]
SENER Aeroespacial To Initiate Additional Development On The Nav Unit For AVIO’s Vega-C Launcher
SENER Aeroespacial has signed a contract with AVIO for the C/D phases of the navigation unit for the VEGA-C launcher, VNE (VEGA-C Navigation Equipment), after successfully completing phases A (feasibility study) and B (preliminary design). Phase C involves the development of the detailed design, and phase D is the qualification and delivery phase of the […]
ST Engineering Geo-Insights Signs MoU With The National University Of Singapore
ST Engineering has announced that the company’s Earth Observation (EO) and geospatial analysis business, ST Engineering Geo-Insights, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) on the joint research and development, and commercialization of advanced remote sensing technologies and geospatial imagery […]
AI +EO Services For Wildfire Mapping To Be Developed By CGI
CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has been awarded a contract to develop a new wildfire mapping service that combines recent advances in Earth Observation (EO), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to help better map and monitor the impact of wildfires by the European Space Agency (ESA). CGI and its project partner, the University of […]
Santander Teleport and Kymeta to Provide Tech and Customer Support Center
Santander Teleport and Kymeta Corporation will be partnering to open a technical and customer support center at the Santander Teleport facilities in Spain. The new venture will extend Kymeta’s existing support operations to the other side of the Atlantic. The technical center will be operated by skilled multilingual engineers and will launch later this month. […]
L3Harris Technologies’ $137 Million for 4 MDUs for GPS IIIF Satellites
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received contracts totaling $137 million for four navigation payload Mission Data Units (MDU) for future GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for GPS III/IIIF, selected L3Harris in 2018 to design and build the first two fully-digital MDUs, the heart of the satellite’s navigation payload. The MDU generates […]
Mission-Critical Avionics + Services For ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Contracted To L3Harris Technologies
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has extended L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) contract to provide mission-critical avionics and related services in support of the Vulcan Centaur rocket for U.S. Space Force launches. More than a year ago, ULA selected L3Harris to safely, securely and cost-effectively deliver on the most critical and challenging missions for the company’s new Vulcan […]
Redwire Acquires Deployable Space Systems
Redwire has acquired Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), a supplier of mission-enabling deployable solar arrays, structures and mechanisms for space applications — terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Goleta, California, DSS is a leading developer and provider of satellite mechanisms, deployable structures and booms and deployable solar array […]