By Chris Forrester A Las Vegas real estate developer wants to build a spaceport on 240 acres of near-desert scrub in Clark County, Nevada. The site is midway between Vegas […]
Archives for July 2023
Teledyne e2v Space Imaging celebrates sensors success as Aeolus de-orbits
Teledyne e2v Space Imaging , part of Teledyne Technologies, designed and built sensors for Aeolus, the first European Space Agency (ESA) satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth’s wind on […]
Fleet Space names a new Chief Technology Officer
Fleet Space has appointed Dr. Matteo Genna as the firm’s new, Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Matteo has been building space and near-space systems for almost 30 years. After gaining his […]
Schiebel Camcopter S-100® delivers emission monitoring + maritime surveillance for EMSA in France
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has contracted Schiebel to support operations with their CAMCOPTER® S-100 for emission monitoring and maritime surveillance purposes in northern France, on behalf of the […]
USSF’s SSC awards L3Harris a hypersonic missiles detection and tracking contract
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC), through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicle, has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) approximately $29 million for a sensor […]
Beam Communications on the Go! with million$ order from Iridium
Beam Communications Holdings Ltd. (ASX: BCC) has received further orders, worth more than $1.6 million (circa $2.5 million), to manufacture Iridium GO!® devices from Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM). The […]
SpaceX launches ESA and NASA’s Euclid on a mission to shed light on dark energy
On Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission to a Sun-Earth L2 transfer orbit, also known as the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, from Space […]
Firefly Aerospace signs agreement with Lockheed Martin for Alpha launch services
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. has signed a launch agreement with Lockheed Martin to support a technology demo mission that will launch aboard Firefly’s Alpha vehicle (image above). Firefly’s Alpha rocket provides […]