Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has named Robert Lightfoot as the company’s new executive vice president of the company’s Space business area — this appointment is effective as of January 1, […]
Archives for November 2021
Gilat’s Wavestream Receives Million$ Follow-On Order For SSPAs From Military Terminal Provider
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT) has received a follow-on order for subsidiary company Wavestream of more than $5 million from a Tier-1, US global military terminal provider […]
AsiaSat + Turbidite Secure Partnership For Satellite + Ground-based Connectivity
Turbidite Limited (“Turbidite”) and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (“AsiaSat”) have cemented a partnership into place that will leverage AsiaSat’s existing satellite and ground infrastructure with Turbidite’s dynamic, edge data […]
UPDATE: Twin Galileo Satellites Launch From Kourou Postponed Until December 2
Due to adverse weather conditions at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), the flight VS26 –initially scheduled for December 1– is being postponed. The Soyuz launch vehicle and spacecraft are in […]
Europe’s First Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellite Successfully Deorbited
Europe’s first meteorological satellite in polar orbit, Metop-A, has been successfully deorbited by Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, with support from Airbus. Starting immediately, the satellite will spiral downward in […]
General Atomics Satellite Prototype Upgraded For USSF EO/IR EWS Program
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is designing for the United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) an Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) Weather System (EWS) satellite. This program has now […]
Azercosmos + MEASAT SATCOM Services Agreement For Africa
Azercosmos has mutually agreed with MEASAT to become the sole operator of the satellite at 46° East orbital slot — Azerspace 1. Both parties decided to cement this partnership in […]
Defense One Post: U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Troop Training… Not In The Usual Mode…
Author: Patrick Tucker, Defense One’s Technology Editor Unlike its earthbound sister services, the Space Force can’t simply head out to some terrestrial exercise range to train its troops, develop new […]
Raytheon Finalizes SEAKR Engineering Acquisition
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has completed the acquisition of privately-held SEAKR Engineering LLC, a leading supplier of advanced space electronics. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, SEAKR Engineering reports […]
Australia’s First Satellite Was Launched Fifty Years Ago
Fifty years ago, on 29 November 1967, Australia launched its first satellite, WRESAT (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite), from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia. The satellite was designed, constructed […]