UPDATE 3: A Successful ‘Another One Leaves The Crust’ Launch Completed By Rocket Lab
UPDATE 2 Rocket Lab's Electron rocket on the launch pad prior to liftoff and the activity at the company's launch control center. Screenshot is courtesy of Rocket Lab's launch video. Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 18th Electron mission, 'Another ...
SpaceX’s Next Starlink Sixty Set Sent To Space
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 8:02 a.m. EST, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, completing the seventeenth Starlink mission. Following first-stage separation, Falcon 9 successfully landed for the eighth ...
Redwire Acquires Oakman Aerospace
Redwire has acquired Oakman Aerospace, Inc. (OAI), a provider of products and services related to digital engineering, spacecraft and satellite design and development, mission payload development, and data distribution services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Littleton, ...
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Satrec Initiative Receives Substantial Investment From Largest Defence Corporation In Korea
Satrec Initiative Co., Ltd. (“Satrec Initiative”), which specializes in high-performance small/medium Earth Observation (EO) satellite systems, has announced investments from Hanwha Aerospace Co. (“Hanwha Aerospace”), the largest defense corporation in Korea. The total amount of investment is approximately $100 million ...
SES Networks’ Satellite Capacity Will Be Delivered To SSI Canada
Vital new satellite capacity will be delivered to Canada’s north, including all 25 communities of Nunavut, following a partnership signed between SSi Canada, the developer-operator of QINIQ broadband and SSi Mobile services in Nunavut, and SES Networks. This partnership comes ...
Redwire Robotics Systems Selected By Momentus For The Vigoride Spacecraft
Redwire has been selected by Momentus to develop robotics systems for their next generation Vigoride, in-space, transportation vehicle. The multi-phase contract will include a system architecture study and delivery of a flight-qualified robotics system that will operate on a flight ...
Airbus’ Skynet 6A Passes Preliminary Design Review
The first key phase of the Skynet 6A project, the Preliminary Design Review (PDR), has successfully been completed by Airbus. As a result the project now has permission to move into the next phase leading to the Critical Design Review ...
Marlink Group To Acquire ITC Global
Marlink Group, backed by Apax Partners (France), has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of ITC Global, a leading provider of satellite communications solutions, from Panasonic. Upon completion of the acquisition, ITC Global will become a cornerstone of the ...
The ISRO’s CMS-01 Satellite Now In Final Orbit
The ISRO's PSLV C-50 before the launch of the CMS-01 communication satellite. The communication satellite CMS-01, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on January 14, has been placed in its final circular orbit of about 36,000 kilometres after ...
ArianeGroup + CNES Sign Agreement For Testing Of ESA’s Prometheus Rocket Engine
Following the visit to the ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) site in Vernon by the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire and Minister for Overseas France Sébastien Lecornu, ArianeGroup CEO ...
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A new year and three new staff appointments at Spaceport Cornwall. Following the departure of Miles Carden, Melissa Thorpe will be providing an interim solution to the position and will be supported by John Paffett. As well as this, new ...
SatADSL + Telespazio Form Satellite Services Partnership For Brazil
A new path to accessing Brazil’s connectivity market has been laid out for satellite service providers with the announcement of a partnership between SatADSL and Telespazio. Telespazio Brasil will offer their connectivity via SatADSL’s Cloud-service Delivery Platform (C-SDP) and the ...
MoU Signed By Indian + UK Space Companies
In an official online ceremony this week, Methera Global Communications Ltd., a UK based MEO satellite constellation start-up, and Telecommunication Consultants India Ltd, a Government of India enterprise specializing in ground segment installation and integration, exchanged their signed MOU — ...
