UPDATE 2: The payload complement for the inaugural United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket is atop the launch vehicle in preparation for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in […]
Archives for December 2023
NASA’s 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine test is all fired-up
NASA has achieved a new benchmark in developing an innovative propulsion system called the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE). Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, successfully […]
L3Harris clears CDR + PRR for SDA’s Tranche 1 missile tracking satellites
L3Harris completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) for 16 missile tracking satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer […]
Custom Electronics delivers high-voltage, high-temperature mica capacitors and subcomponents for space + satellite applications
Custom Electronics, Inc. (CEI) designs and supplies various high-voltage, high-temperature mica capacitors and subcomponents. Since 1964, CEI has successfully designed and manufactured the highest-quality, custom reconstituted, mica paper capacitors available. […]
Teledyne e2v HiRel expands company’s portfolio of space-screened GaN HEMTs
Teledyne e2v HiRel has added new, space screened versions of the company’s popular 100 V, 90 A and 650 V, 30 A high reliability gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors […]
ZenaDrone, Inc. executes USAF contract Phase 1 SBIR award for dual-purpose tech
ZenaDrone, Inc. (a subsidiary company of Epazz Holdings) has executed the SBIR award contract that focused on ZenaDrone’s flagship drone, the ZenaDrone 1000 technology, to address the most pressing challenges […]
Overseas Shipholding Group installs Starlink service on entire maritime fleet
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. is set to equip all vessels in its fleet with Space X’s Starlink satellite internet service. Since the introduction to the market of Starlink’s Global Maritime […]
Hughes has released new HughesNet JUPITER-powered satellite internet plans
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has introduced new Hughesnet® high-speed satellite internet plans that allow customers to connect, stream and play wherever they live — […]
SoftBank Corp. successfully tests maximum comms coverage of antenna for HAPS
SoftBank Corp. recently conducted a successful field trial using the company’s cylindrical antenna[1] for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) stratospheric-based wireless communication systems at Hokkaido Spaceport, Taiki Town, Hokkaido, Japan. […]
Foxconn rockets into satellites in search of life beyond iPhone
Taiwanese iPhone assembler Foxconn’s satellite business ambitions have lifted off with a successful launch that the company sees as an entry point into a space industry forecast to grow to […]