Airbus’ Final Two Dispenser-Free Pléiades Neo Constellation Satellites Ready For Launch
Photo of the stacked Pléiades-5 and 6 satellites to join the Pléiades Neo constellation. Image is courtesy of Airbus. The last two satellites of the Airbus-built, owned and operated Pléiades Neo constellation are on track for launch later this year, ...
First Structural Metal Cutting In Space Demo By Nanoracks + Maxar Will Be Aboard The SpaceX Transporter 5 Rideshare Mission
Voyager and Nanoracks have announced that the first Outpost demonstration mission (Outpost Mars Demo-1) is expected to launch this month aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare flight. This mission is part of the firms' Outpost Program, which is focused on transforming ...
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Drives 53 Additional Starlink Satellites To Orbit
On Wednesday, May 18, at 6:59 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites to compliment their continually growing smallsat constellation from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the fifth flight for the Falcon 9 ...
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Sky UK’s Capacity Renewal And Multi-Year Deal With SES
This renewal secures an additional contract backlog of approximately EUR 84 million, building on the EUR 90 million capacity agreement signed between the two companies in 2021, with contracts extending up to the end of 2028’s satellites continue to deliver ...
Prestwick Spaceport Plans To Encourage Youngsters To Reach For The Stars Via Their ‘New Hope’ Campaign
A new campaign that aims to educate thousands of young people across Ayrshire in Scotland and beyond about careers in the UK’s growing space sector is to be launched by Prestwick Spaceport and affiliated aerospace businesses. Running throughout 2022, ‘A ...
Gilmour Space Completes Full Duration Test Fire Of Their New Phoenix Rocket Engine
Gilmour Space Technologies has unveiled a new 3D printed liquid rocket engine that will power the third stage of the firm's Eris rocket to orbit. Phoenix rocket engine test. The company today shared a video of a successful, 190-second, Mission ...
Telesat Government Solutions To Provide NASA Space-to-Space High Data Rate Connectivity
NASA Communications Services Project partnership will develop and demonstrate next-generation space relay services for NASA near-Earth missions, creating a potential pathway to the future use of the Telesat Lightspeed network Telesat Government Solutions, a U.S.-incorporated, wholly-owned subsidiary of Telesat announced ...
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ThinKom’s Wideband Phased-Array Antenna Selected By Northrop Grumman For Their MQ-4C Triton FTB
ThinKom ThinAir© Ka2517 phased array ThinKom Solutions, Inc. has announced that Northrop Grumman has specified a ThinAir© Ka2517 phased-array satellite antenna to provide beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) connectivity for the company's MQ-4C Triton flying test bed (FTB). Photo of Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C ...
SES Government Solutions Awarded U.S. Army INSCOM Support Contract
SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a U.S. government TROJAN follow-on contract to support U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) for up to a five-year period. Using SES’s global network of satellite ...
Tying Tuvalu Into Complete Satellite Connectivity Solutions Is Eutelsat
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and The Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation (TTC) have signed a contract for capacity on the EUTELSAT 172B satellite to support the extension of corporate networks for government offices and key enterprises of the Tuvalu Islands. Under ...
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U.S. Space Force To Use ViaLite’s Wideband Links For Satellite Backhaul
With their ability to operate simultaneously across the L- and S-bands Wideband fiber optic links from ViaLite are to be used in the backhaul network for the US Space Force’s (USSF) new satellite mesh network. The USSF’s initial Tranche 0 ...
ESA’s Call For Uni CubeSat Team Proposals
Teams that have already assembled their hardware will have the chance to verify equipment, payloads, experiments, or entire nanosatellites making use of the CubeSat Support Facility in ESEC-Galaxia (Belgium). The ESA Academy announces two new hands-on training opportunities for University CubeSat teams ...
Agreement Between Satellogic + UP42 For Direct Access To Wide-Area Hyperspectral Imagery
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) has entered into an agreement with UP42 that enables direct access to Satellogic’s satellite tasking, high-resolution, multispectral and wide-area hyperspectral imagery via the UP42 API-based platform — the agreement includes the archive of high-frequency, high-resolution, Satellogic ...
