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Archives for November 2021

Lockheed Martin Names New Exec V.P. Of The Space Division

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Appointments, Business Moves, Space

Gilat’s Wavestream Receives Million$ Follow-On Order For SSPAs From Military Terminal Provider

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Comms, Follow-On Order, Military, MILSATCOM, SSPAs, Tactical

AsiaSat + Turbidite Secure Partnership For Satellite + Ground-based Connectivity

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Connectivity, Ground Infrastructure, Partnerships, SATCOM Services, Satellites

UPDATE: Twin Galileo Satellites Launch From Kourou Postponed Until December 2

November 30, 2021

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, […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Comms, Galileo, Launch Facilities, Satellite Tagged With: Featured

Europe’s First Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellite Successfully Deorbited

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Deorbit, Earth Observation (EO)

General Atomics Satellite Prototype Upgraded For USSF EO/IR EWS Program

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Demo, Military, Satellites, Sensors, U.S. Space Force

Azercosmos + MEASAT SATCOM Services Agreement For Africa

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Agreement, Business Moves, SATCOM Services

Defense One Post: U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Troop Training… Not In The Usual Mode…

November 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: News, Publication, Training, U.S. Space Force

Raytheon Finalizes SEAKR Engineering Acquisition

November 29, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Business Moves, Electronics, Space

Australia’s First Satellite Was Launched Fifty Years Ago

November 29, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Collaboration, Development, New Products, Satellites

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