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, 2022. Lightfoot, currently the vice president of Operations for Lockheed Martin Space, spent 29 years at NASA in several critical leadership roles to support space […]
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 for Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) for satellite communication (SATCOM) terminals sold to militaries throughout the world. Additional contract expansion for Wavestream MicroStream SSPAs is […]
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 center platform to support the accelerated demand for digital services. The partnership will bring together the expertise and skills of the two companies to provide […]
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 stable and safe conditions. The new, earliest, targeted launch date is December 2, 2021, at exactly: > 07:27 p.m. Washington, D.C. time, > 09:27 p.m. Kourou time, […]
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 progressively lower orbits until it disintegrates upon re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, a process that is expected to end within the next 25 years, in accordance […]
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 been up-scoped from a one year, on-orbit sensor demonstration to a three-to-five-year prototype spacecraft with residual operational capability. The program is currently in the competitive […]
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 place to align with their new, strategic direction in the space market. Under the newly signed agreement with MEASAT, Azercosmos will use all of the […]
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 tactics, or peer into the future of weaponry. Nor do Space Force units have a natural deploy-and-rebuild cycle that affords time for advanced training. So […]
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 into Raytheon Intelligence & Space, one of four RTX businesses. “Today’s growing space market demands greater innovation, technological expertise and ability to deliver to a […]
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 and launched in just 11 months in a collaboration between the Weapons Research Establishment Salisbury (now Defence Science and Technology Group Edinburgh) and the University […]