On Friday, April 29, at 5:27 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the sixth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, […]
Archives for April 2022
ARABSAT Contracts Thales Alenia Space To Build A Software-Defined Satellite
ARABSAT and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract for the latter to build ARABSAT-7A, a fully flexible, Software-Defined Satellite (SDS) based on the Space Inspire (INstant SPace In-orbit REconfiguration) platform by Thales Alenia Space. With this contract, ARABSAT joins geostationary satellite operators who have selected this technology to empower their business and transition from […]
UPDATE #2: Rocket Lab’s “There and Back Again” Mission With A Mid-Air Attempt To Capture The Falcon 9’s 1st Stage Is Now Pushed Out To No Earlier Than May 1st
Due to weather challenges, Rocket Lab is pushing the launch of their “There and Back Again” rideshare mission to no earlier than May 1st, with a launch window of 22:35 – 00:40 UTC / 10:35 – 12:40 NZST, for this rideshare mission for a variety of customers. This is a recovery mission where — for […]
Prométhée Contracts NanoAvionics To Build Their 1st EO Smallsat
Satellite operator Prométhée has contracted mission integrator NanoAvionics to build the first smallsat for the French company’s planned constellation of Earth Observation (EO) smallsats and image analysis platform. “ProtoMéthée-1” will be based on NanoAvionics’ flight-proven 16U nanosatellite bus, M16P. In addition to the satellite with onboard camera and propulsion, NanoAvionics will also provide Prométhée with […]
Cosmic Shielding To Test Radiation Shielding Tech Aboard Space Forge Satellite In The UK’s 1st Sovereign Launch
Cosmic Shielding Corporation (Cosmic Shielding), a leading space radiation management company and creator of Plasteel™ technology, has an agreement with European, in-space, manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge to test Cosmic Shielding’s radiation shielding technology aboard Space Forge’s new small class vehicle. The ForgeStar-0 will be launching on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne this summer from Spaceport Cornwall. […]
Africa To Take Delivery Of AAC Clyde Space’s Ground Station
“This ground station will be a stepping stone to leverage space based data and services to improve the quality of life, safety and economic prosperity in the region” … New Space company AAC Clyde Space has, through its subsidiary AAC Space Africa, been selected to deliver a ground station to a client in Africa. The […]
New Support Contract From The U.S. Government To Maxar Technologies Awards Million$$$
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, was recently awarded U.S. Government mission support contracts in Q1 2022 worth up to $202 million over a six-year period. The total includes 27 awards across nine U.S. government customers—eight of which are Department of Defense or Intelligence Community organizations—for […]
SES Contracted By SSi Canada For SES-17 Capacity To Service Growing Customer Needs Plus Meet The Canadian Gov.’s B’Band Goals
Consumers, students, government entities and businesses across Northern Canada, including all 25 communities of Nunavut, will have access to expanded broadband capacity following a partnership signed between SSi Canada, the developer-operator of QINIQ broadband and SSi Mobile services in Nunavut, and SES, a leader in global content connectivity solutions. Under the agreement, SES will provide […]
Million$$ In Series A Funding For ADRANOS
Adranos, Inc. has announced a $20 million Series A funding round with participation from Bob Bishop and other principals at Impala Asset Management LLC and several other entities, including Explorer1 Fund, Elevate Ventures, and Specific Impulse Capital — this round brings the total capital raised by the company to date to over $25 million. Co-founded […]
Cybersecurity Advisory Released By CISA, NSA, FBI, ACSC, CCCS, NZ-NCSC, NCSC-UK Regarding The Top 15 Common Vulnerabilities + Exposures
After more than 20,000 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) were disclosed in 2021, U.S and allied cybersecurity authorities are helping organizations prioritize and mitigate the most exploited vulnerabilities. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Canadian Centre for […]