Thales Alenia Space Now Has A Major Role To Play With ESA’s 2nd Generation Galileo Constellation
Global connectivity concept with worldwide communication network connection lines around planet Earth viewed from space, satellite orbit, city lights in Europe, some elements from NASA. Thales Alenia Space recently signed a 772 million euros contract with the European Space Agency ...
Kleos Space’s 3rd Satellite Cluster Launch Set For December
Kleos Space S.A. (ASX:KSS, Frankfurt:KS1, Kleos or Company) has signed a new contract with rideshare provider Spaceflight Inc. to launch the company's third satellite cluster, (KSF2), in December of 2021 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to further grow the ...
SpaceX Launches Additional Starlinks
On Thursday, March 4, at 3:24 a.m,. EST, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the eighth launch of this Falcon 9 booster, which previously supported Iridium-8, Telstar 18 ...
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Virgin Galactic Adds Two To The Company’s Executive Leadership Positions
Virgin Galactic has named Swami Iyer as the company's President of Aerospace Systems and Stephen Justice as the Vice President of Engineering. As President of Aerospace Systems, Iyer will lead the team of engineers, designers, technicians, and support teams who ...
U.S. DoD Weather Satellite Will Fly With Navigation Receiver From RUAG Space
RUAG Space has been awarded a contract from Ball Aerospace to provide a navigation receiver for Weather System Follow-on — Microwave (WSF-M), a next-generation Department of Defense (DoD) operational environmental satellite system. Ball is the prime contractor for WSF-M, which ...
D-Orbit Commits To Marubeni Partnership For Global Sales Expansion
D-Orbit S.p.A. and Marubeni Corporation have signed a commercial partnership that will enable D-Orbit to expand the firm's sales network worldwide. According to the agreement, Marubeni will promote and sell the entire catalog of D-Orbit’s solutions in Japan and other ...
ORBCOMM Selected By Zachry Construction To Track / Monitor Heavy Equipment Fleet
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) was recently selected by Zachry Construction Corporation (Zachry), a firm that specializes in turnkey, heavy civil construction and engineering projects, to track and monitor their mixed fleet of heavy equipment. ORBCOMM’s comprehensive solution provides wireless connectivity ...
Gilat’s Wavestream Receives DO-160G Certification For Their IFC Transceiver
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.'s fully owned subsidiary, Wavestream, has marked a key milestone as successfully tested by Global Eagle Entertainment (Global Eagle), a major In-Flight Connectivity Provider, for its IFC high-power transceiver, the Aerostream 40Ku, which has achieved RTCA (formerly ...
Indonesian Satellite Construction To Start In September Of This Year
PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) has initiated their Multifunction Satellite (SMF) project called Satellite of Republic of Indonesia (SATRIA). Through its subsidiary, PT Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT), and the PSN Consortium consisting of fully local entities, PSN is working together ...
Kaman Precision Products Introduces Their KD-5100+ Measuring System
The Measuring Division of Kaman Precision Products, Inc. has rolled out their KD-5100+, an upgraded, higher reliability version of Kaman’s legacy KD-5100 measuring system. The KD-5100+ retains the proven performance of the KD-5100 system while incorporating upgrades to the circuit ...
Hiber Goes Heavy To Solve Monitoring Issues
Hiber, a Dutch ‘New Space’ startup, has a new heavy equipment monitoring solution that helps increase productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. HiberHeavy is a subscription-based IoT solution. HiberHeavy is a heavy equipment monitoring solution that is subscription-based, easy to ...
Spaceport America®’s New Executive Director, He’s A Musical New Mexico Native
Scott A. McLaughlin, new executive director of Spaceport America News from Spaceport America reveals that a native New Mexico native has been selected to become their new executive director. Scott A. McLaughlin, a New Mexico native and a long-time business ...
ALE Company Sparks Continued Funding
ALE Co., Ltd. (ALE), led by CEO Lena Okajima, has allocated new shares to third parties that are underwritten by the Space Frontier Fund (operated by SPARX Innovation for Future Co., Ltd.), Horizons Ventures, THVP No.2 Investment Limited Partnership (operated ...
