ICEYE has established a new line of business that is focused solely on delivering fully operational satellite missions to customers looking for their own orbital SAR capabilities. Governments and large multinational corporations are able to purchase their own radar imaging satellites from ICEYE and operate them independently, or arrange ICEYE to manage the spacecraft exclusively […]
Archives for June 2022
A space sector incubator is launched by Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space)
Beyond Gravity is launching their own start-up program —”Launchpad” — in October of 2022. The incubator supports young start-ups and their promising ideas around space technology. In the process, teams are developed from an early stage to an initial investment opportunity. The application period runs until mid-August of 2022. From state-owned enterprise to start-up – […]
UPDATE 3: The CAPSTONE smallsat is successfully carried aloft + Rocket Lab is triumphant with this phase of NASA’s moon mission
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE cubesat from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Pad B, located on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on June 28th via an Electron rocket. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) cubesat will be the first spacecraft to test the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. […]
LeoStella’s new Vice President of Business Development has 40 years experience in the space industry
He has served in senior leadership positions at NASA, Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Space Systems Loral, and most recently, Belcan. LeoStella, a specialized satellite constellation design and manufacturing company, has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Mike Kaplan as vice president of business development. Kaplan will bolster LeoStella’s new business and customer […]
Epsilon3’s Series A funding harvests million$$
Epsilon3 has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by investor Lux Capital — this funding will expand the company’s suite of space project management solutions, according to the the company. Epsilon3’s platform is web-based and provides collaboration tools for spacecraft manufacturing and operations. A fifth of this year’s orbital launches from […]
China’s newest EO satellite carried aloft by a Long March 4C rocket
On Monday, June 27th, China sent a new Earth Observation (EO) satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The satellite, Gaofen-12 03, was launched by a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 11:46 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has successfully entered its planned orbit. The satellite will be used in a variety […]
NASA’s Australian rocket launches seek habitable star conditions
On the heels of a successful launch on June 26, NASA is set to launch two more sounding rockets from northern Australia during the first half of July — these missions will help astronomers understand how starlight influences a planet’s atmosphere, possibly making or breaking its ability to support life as we know it. The […]
Paper or plastic bag at checkout? NanoAvionics sells their first cubesat already operating in LEO
That’s not what happens when a satellite is purchased but this small NanoAvionics cubesat is their first satellite sold already operating in Low Earth Orbit, which provides data on climate change, hidden resources, agricultural improvement and other valuable processes on Earth. Mission integrator and bus manufacturer NanoAvionics has sold, for the first time, one of […]
A successful ISS reboost by Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus™ spacecraft
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Cygnus cargo spacecraft successfully boosted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS). Docked to the ISS since February, Cygnus fired its main onboard engine to adjust the orbit of the station to the desired altitude to support upcoming operations. The station orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth and requires […]
An advanced edge platform for satellite tracking + telematics data introduced by Globalstar
Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) has introduced Realm Enablement Suite, a portfolio of satellite asset tracking hardware and software solutions that feature a powerful application enablement platform for processing smart data at the edge. With Realm, partners can accelerate new solutions to market with AI-enabled applications that generate an advanced level of telematics data. By […]