Launch service provider Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) and SaxaVord Spaceport have today announced their launch operations partnership. RFA will have exclusive access to Launch Pad Fredo for orbital launches, […]
Archives for January 2023
Aegis Aerospace RACs up their 1st lunar payload delivery
Aegis Aerospace Inc. has delivered their lunar payload — RAC-1 — along with its 15 customer material experiments, to Firefly Aerospace for integration onto the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar […]
Airbus and VDL Group to produce UltraAir, an airborne laser communication terminal
Airbus and VDL Group have signed a partnership agreement for the development and manufacturing of a laser communication terminal for aircraft, known as UltraAir. Based on the development led by […]
Vast Space newest member of “Space Beach”
Vast, a pioneer in space habitation technologies, announced the relocation and major expansion of its corporate headquarters to a newly built facility in Long Beach, California, for the established pipeline of […]
Million$$ in growth equity financing attained by Capella Space
Capella Space has closed $60 million in growth equity financing from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (“USIT”) — Capella will leverage this growth capital to expand its imaging capacity and […]
ST Engineering iDirect’s New CEO comes from Intelsat General with plans to expand global accelerated growth strategy
ST Engineering iDirect, a global provider in satellite communications, has named Don Claussen as its new CEO, effective January 2, 2023. Claussen will lead the company in expanding its global […]
Spaceflight signs agreement with Maritime Launch for future Sherpa OTV missions
Spaceflight Inc. has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services Inc. (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF) to launch as many as five Sherpa(™) Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) — these launches will […]
No more crash, boom, bang in space — European NewSpace companies plan AI-based space traffic management solutions
Three European NewSpace companies, Neuraspace, Ienai Space, and EnduroSat have partnered for Europe’s first orbital demonstration of a collision avoidance system based on artificial intelligence (AI). Their aim is to […]
Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building USSF’s WSF-M satellite
Ball Aerospace has completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) next-generation operational environmental satellite system. The company also finalized environmental testing […]
Blue Canyon Technologies provides critical tech for Transporter-6 mission smallsats
Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, contributed to the SpaceX Transporter-6 launch by providing critical hardware components for several of the payload’s smallsats. The payloads had various […]