L3Harris brings Maxar into their Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the SDA for the design + production of 14 spacecraft
Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, announced on August 9th the firm had been selected by L3Harris Technologies for the design and production of 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for their Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development ...
UPDATE 1: 52 Starlinks are launched to join the SpaceX smallsat constellation
On Tuesday, August 9th, at 10:14 p.m., ET, SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the third flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which ...
The largest smallsat constellation build contract to date received by Blue Canyon Technologies
Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has been selected to provide 18 cubesats for The Tomorrow Companies Inc. ("Tomorrow.io") microwave sounding mission. In the company's largest constellation delivery to date, Blue Canyon ...
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Teaming of Orbital Insight + ASTERRA to implement infrastructure monitoring
Earth observation company, ASTERRA, has executed a teaming agreement with Orbital Insight to jointly provide remote sensing analytics to water utilities, infrastructure organizations as well as numerous other industries. ASTERRA will provide products and services based on analytics derived from ...
Vaya Space is awarded multiple patents for their Vortex-Hybrid engine tech
Vaya Space, the vortex-hybrid engine rocket company, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded two patents to the Company on the firm's breakthrough vortex-hybrid propulsion technology. Vaya Space's first patent was awarded for the ...
NanoAvionics’ two new satellites bus range enables advanced space missions
NanoAvionics, described as global mission integrator, has added two microsatellite buses, the MP42H and the MP42D, to its product line based on its flagship MP42 bus. These buses are able to host customer payloads of up to 145 kg and ...
China’s Long March rocket launches 16 satellites
According to the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, 16 new satellites were delivered into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi. The satellites, including a Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D09 satellite and Yunyao-1 04-08 satellites, were launched ...
Orbit intros an advanced tri-band observation antenna system
Orbit Communications Systems Ltd. (TASE: ORBI) has launched their Gaia 100 - an advanced, tri-band, Earth Observation (EO) antenna system – with an initial order secured from a significant, European customer. Orbit's new tri-band Gaia100 antenna within radome. Image is ...
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Metaspectral wins Canadian Space Agency funding + is developing an EO payload for the ISS with partner HySpeed Computing
Recently, Metaspectral received funding as part of the smartEarth Canadian Space Agency initiative to build a method to systematically and methodically quantify the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels present at ground-elevation using hyperspectral data. Metaspectral has created a hybrid on-premise and ...
C-COM mobile antenna has Viasat type approval
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., (TSXV: CMI and OTCQB: CYSNF) has received type approval for the company's iNetVu® Ka-75VP Ka-band vehicle mount antenna system from Viasat® Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) for use on the networks that power the ViaSat Enterprise service. Photo ...
TriSept satellite security solution experimental mission payloads to be launched by RocketStar
TriSept Corporation has completed the integration of two experimental mission payloads running the company's new TSEL satellite security operating software for a suborbital test flight aboard RocketStar’s launch vehicle that is set to liftoff from the Koehn Lake Bed in ...
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Muon Space funding attains million$$
Muon Space has announced their Series A financing led by AI-focused venture capital firm, Radical Ventures. Founded by veteran technology and aerospace leaders, Muon Space is launching hundreds of scientific-grade sensors into space to help every business better understand and ...
Operational control of the Landsat 9 satellite being turned over to the USGS by NASA
Operation Handover: On August 11th, NASA will pass the operational control of the Landsat 9 satellite to the USGS. The joint Landsat Program has provided continuous global coverage of landscape change since 1972. Landsat’s unique, long-term data record provides the ...
