Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. has been awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract from the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) with strategic support from SpaceWERX. The contract will facilitate delivery of two key Slingshot Aerospace products: the company’s Digital Space Twin, and the deployment of the Slingshot Laboratory training product for USSF. Funding was […]
Archives for March 2022
Cumulative Seed Funding For SPACE WALKER Brings Million$$ For Spaceplane Development
SPACE WALKER Inc. has closed an additional $4.5 million through convertible equity and bonds, completing seed funding mainly from individual angel investors through March of 2022. This brings the total amount of funds raised to nearly $10 million. SPACE WALKER is a university startup that researches and develops winged, reusable, suborbital spaceplanes for sustainable space […]
Northrop Grumman Successfully Tests The Crucial Abort Motor For NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Lockheed Martin have successfully performed the final full-scale ground test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman’s Promontory, Utah, test facility. The 17-foot-tall abort motor is one of three motors comprising the LAS that sits atop the Orion spacecraft aboard NASA’s […]
Aitech’s New Space-Rated COTS-Based Products Will Be On Display @ The 37th Space Symposium
During the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado, Springs, Colorado, Aitech will be presenting their new space innovations, which heavily incorporate COTS technologies for scale and cost-efficiencies at Booth #307. The company will be showing… S-A6640: space-rated managed Ethernet switch that lowers costs and significantly improve time-to-market for several mission types, from smallsat constellations to manned […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard 20 Successfully Launches With A Crew Of Six Passengers
Blue Origin has successfully completed their fourth human spaceflight and 20th overall flight for New Shepard. The astronaut manifest included: Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen, Gary Lai, and Dr. George Nield. “Congratulations to our astronauts on today’s mission above the Kármán Line,” said Phil Joyce, Senior Vice President of New Shepard for […]
Four Dedicated Antennas Finalized + Commissioned By KSAT For Satellogic
KSAT has finalized and commissioned dedicated antennas for Satellogic. Four dedicated antennas for the disruptive satellite company are up and running at Troll Station and Svalbard, showing KSATs ability to deliver turn-key solutions, handling everything from installation and commissioning to operation. Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, has selected […]
Partnership To Tackle SSA Challenges Formed By SES + NorthStar Earth & Space
A partnership to enhance Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and ensure a sustainable use of space has been formed between SES, the world’s leading satellite-based content connectivity solutions provider, and NorthStar Earth and Space (NorthStar), the first commercial service to monitor space from space. Together with NorthStar, the teams will be working to launch, develop and […]
A Successful Italian Sounding Rocket Test Flight
Earlier this year, the first flight test of an innovative sounding rocket for access-to-space applications for smallsats was successfully performed. The sounding rocket was launched from the Poligono Interforze of Salto di Quirra (PISQ) in Sardinia, Italy, within the project Aviolancio, coordinated by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and the Italian Airforce (AMI). The […]
IPS, Inc. and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation Provide Satellite Broadband Service in the Philippines
The advantage of Challenergy’s wind turbine technology is its capability to generate stable power even during strong winds and expected to be a reusable power solution that suits the Philippines where they often experience strong typhoons. IPS, Inc.’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Koji Miyashita, and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation Representative Director, President & Chief […]
Satellites Around The Moon—Another Step Closer
ESA is going to the Moon – in collaboration with its international partners – and seeks to build a lasting lunar link to enable sustainable space exploration. The agency has now evaluated initial ideas to create a network of lunar telecommunications and navigation satellites. Creating a commercial telecommunications and navigation service for the Moon will […]