Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and NASA successfully conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster-2. The five-segment solid rocket […]
Archives for July 2022
Millennium Space Systems demos advanced smallsat constellation tech
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, demonstrated several new technologies – expected and unexpected — on-orbit with their RED-EYE smallsat constellation. Built for DARPA, the satellite was nicknamed […]
AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite now assembled + en route to environmental testing
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), which according to the the company is building the first and only space-based, cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has […]
Optisys joins Satellite Applications Catapult’s Co-space facility in Harwell, UK
Optisys has expanded the company’s UK footprint by joining Satellite Applications Catapult’s shared Co-space facility in the Electron Building, Harwell, in the United Kingdom. The Harwell site is home to […]
Terran Orbital commissions the Fleet Space CENTAURI-5 payload
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has commissioned the Fleet Space CENTAURI-5 payload that provides Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to ground terminals and is an improved […]
Space Domain Awareness to be advanced by SCOUT Space thru an SBIR AFWERX contract
SCOUT Space Inc. has been granted a Phase II SBIR contract through AFWERX, the Technology Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the innovation arm of the Department […]
NI showcases Satellite Link Emulation in cooperation with Ansys
NI demonstrated a Satellite Link Emulator (SLE) at the Farnborough Air Show 2022. This SLE is intended to validate next-generation satellite communication (SATCOM) links with a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) approach that […]
Astraius’ 1st satellite launch from Prestwick Spaceport is on track — key partners named
Astraius, the UK-based, horizontal launch company, has announced two key suppliers for the firm’s launch solution — Northrop Grumman has been selected as the first and second stage motor supplier. […]
MoU signed by two Hanwha companies + OneWeb to develop satellite connectivity services for the Australian Defense Market
Hanwha Systems Corporation (HSC) and Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA), two leading defense companies in South Korea, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with OneWeb to explore the joint provision […]
Startical’s European air traffic management to space project supported by European Union
Startical, created by Indra and ENAIRE, proposes to launch a constellation of smallsats to improve air traffic management (ATM) and has received significant backing from the European Commission, which will […]