Secure World Foundation has announced the organization’s first round of sponsors and media partners for the 2021 Summit for Space Sustainability. This year, we are proud to be teaming up […]
Archives for May 2021
Full Deployment Of Their First Fund Announced By SpaceFund
SpaceFund Inc. announced the company has fully deployed investments from its first “LaunchPad” fund — this venture capital firm placed investor funds in 14 companies, including some well-known NewSpace stars […]
The 3rd + 4th Philippine Smallsats Turned Over To JAXA
Maya-3 and Maya-4, the first Philippine-university built cubesats, have been turned over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), according to STAMINA4Space. The country’s third and fourth smallsats were turned […]
Three Requests For Prototype Proposals Released By SMC + Space Enterprise Consortium
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise, in collaboration with the Space Development Corps’ Space Enterprise Consortium, has released three Requests for Prototype Proposals to industry. SMC intends to […]
China’s New Bid To Take On Elon Musk’s Starlink: A State-Owned Satellite Enterprise
China Satellite Network Group was launched in late April in Xiongan, the area south of Beijing designated as home to a future smart city Satellite internet is one of the […]
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s 3D Printed RL10C-X Engine Passes Altitude Hot Fire Test Series
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a successful RL10C-X altitude hot fire test series that put the next generation engine through the rigors of a typical spaceflight mission. Using a test chamber […]
NanoAvionics TIGER-2 Satellite To Join OQ Technology’s Growing 5G / IoT Constellation
NanoAvionics has signed a contract with OQ Technology to build, integrate and operate a smallsat for the company’s 5G IoT mission named Tiger-2. The 6U cubesat is the second mission […]
The Journey Home Underway For NASA’s Lockheed Martin-Built OSIRIX-REx… With Asteroid Sample Material
Scientists are now one step closer to learning more about how our solar system formed – and, potentially, the origins of life. The NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which was designed, built […]
IPsec/CMPv2 Interoperability From XipLink + Nexus Increases Security + Protection For MNOs
XipLink and Nexus have announced interoperability with Nexus certificate management. Strong authentication and encryption for LTE and 5G backhaul are crucial to secure the communication between eNodeB/gNodeB and security gateways. […]
Encapsulation Completed For The SBIRS GEO-5 Satellite By United Launch Alliance For Mid-May Launch
The United States Space Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) GEO-5 satellite was encapsulated on April 30 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) Florida. The satellite’s encapsulation within the […]