Ball Aerospace shipped NASA’s Tropospheric Emission: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer, an air quality monitoring instrument, to the spacecraft manufacturer (Maxar) for integration. Ball will continue to work closely with […]
Archives for May 2021
iDirect Government, For The 3rd Year, Named By WBJ, As The Best Place To Work
iDirect Government (iDirectGov), for the third consecutive year, has been named the Washington Business Journal‘s (WBJ) Best Places to Work for the large company category. The WBJ acknowledges the top […]
Arianespace’s ST32 Flight To Move More OneWeb Satellites To Orbit
The next Arianespace mission is planned from Vostochny Cosmodrome with Soyuz on May 27 to deliver 36 satellites into orbit. By operating this seventh flight on behalf of OneWeb, Arianespace […]
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission To Be Launched By SpaceX
Firefly Aerospace Inc. has awarded a contract to SpaceX to launch their Blue Ghost lunar lander in 2023. Blue Ghost will be carrying 10 payloads for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload […]
Synthetaic Awarded AFWERX Contract To Leverage Synthetic Data + AI-Powered Object Detection
Synthetaic has won a contract with AFWERX, a program of the USAF that is focused on expanding technology, talent, and transition partnerships for rapid and affordable commercial and military capability. […]
MoU Signed Between AIAA + Space ISAC For Collaboration On Space Cybersecurity Concerns
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) enabling the two organizations […]
Telesat + TIM Complete Their On-Orbit Testing Of 4G Over Satellite
Telesat and TIM Brasil have completed their on-orbit testing across several applications with Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite. This first-of-its-kind LEO backhaul testing in Brazil was conducted with TIM Brasil’s […]
Applied Satellite Technology Is First Iridium® GMDSS Service Provider For Liberian Flagged Vessels
Iridium Communications Inc. and their partner Applied Satellite Technology (AST), a provider of maritime satellite communications solutions, has become the first authorized Iridium Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) […]
WORK Microwave Gleans Major Contract With APAC DTH + Satellite Distribution Operator
WORK Microwave has announced that a leading APAC broadcast satellite owner and operator has deployed a comprehensive digital SATCOM offering from WORK Microwave that is comprised of approximately 200 DVB-S2X […]
Series A Growth Investments Received By Horizon Technologies
Horizon Technologies has received a significant growth investment in a multi-million-pound Series A round of financing. This Series A investment will aggressively advance Horizon Technologies’ space-based Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) […]