Japan’s cabinet on Monday approved a bill to set up a 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion) fund for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the country’s space agency, as a […]
Archives for November 2023
New AI-based done safety + awareness system for commercial drones + urban air mobility aircraft
ParaZero Technologies has announced the firm’s nexgen safety product development, SmartAir Trinity, an AI-based avionics system that uses a new, leading-edge, sensor array with advanced capabilities, designed to detect malfunctions […]
L3Harris JUPITER 3™ space reflectors successfully deploy
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) successfully deployed reflectors onboard the Hughes JUPITER™ 3 ultra high-density satellite to provide HughesNet® internet access across the Americas and to support enterprise networks, in-flight Wi-Fi, cellular […]
The Arctic Weather Satellite completed and heading for testing
Only 36 months were required to develop and build ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS). Now complete, this smallsat has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to Germany where the craft […]
Starlink’s successful launch is SpaceX’s third launch in four days
On Monday, November 20 at 2:30 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection awards TARS contract to QinetiQ US
QinetiQ US has received a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine (AMO) Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) Operations & Maintenance (O&M) III […]
SpaceX’s Sunday Starlinks launch scrubbed, will be the third in a trio of weekend launches
UPDATE: Monday morning’s launch was originally targeted for Sunday, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, but the company scrubbed […]
Hughes JUPITER 3 initiates over the air testing with the ground system
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) company, has announced its JUPITER™ 3 ultra-high-density satellite has successfully deployed its solar arrays and antennas, and the spacecraft has passed readiness testing […]
Firefly Aerospace closes 3rd Tranche of Series C Round + reaches million $$$ of financing
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. has closed another tranche of financing, valuing the company at $1.5 billion pre-money with the round being led by existing investors including AE Industrial Partners, LP, as well as […]
Amazon confirms 100% success rate for Project Kuiper Protoflight mission
Amazon’s Project Kuiper has validated all systems and subsystems on board its prototype satellites and has also demo’d the first, two-way video call over Amazon’s end-to-end communications network. Within 30 […]