SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission sends 131 smallsats soaring near California’s beach
On a beautiful Tuesday, January 14, California morning, at 11:09 a.m. PT, with blue skies and the ocean and beach in the background SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-12 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at ...
Varda’s W-2 spacecraft launched to orbit with SpaceX with Koonibba Test Range up next
Varda Space Industries has announced the successful launch of the company's second orbital processing spacecraft and re-entry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The W-2 capsule will ...
FOSSA Systems launches their new generation of nanosatellites
FOSSA Systems has launched the company's new generation of satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The aerospace startup is placing three FOSSASats into orbit aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Transporter 12 mission. This milestone, ...
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Kratos receives new hypersonic system program award
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) recently received an approximate $100 million total potential value hypersonic system program award. Approximately $15 million of funding has been received by Kratos at contract award, with significant increased funding expected in the ...
AV announces 2nd delivery order on a $990 million U.S. Army contract
AeroVironment (AV) has been awarded its second delivery order totaling $55.3 million of Switchblade® loitering munition systems as part of U.S. Army’s Directed Requirement (DR) for Lethal Unmanned Systems (LUS). The delivery is part of the 5 year contract from ...
SpaceX to send Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the moon on Wednesday
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Moon’s near side as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Credit: Firefly Aerospace SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, ...
Gilat receives more than $3 million in orders to support LEO constellations
Orders reinforce Gilat’s position as a key provider of high-performance RF solutions for NGSO networks Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT) has received orders exceeding $3 million from leading service providers for Gilat’s Gateway Solid State Power Amplifiers ...
SpaceX launches 21 Starlink smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell on Monday from Florida
On Monday, January 13 at 11:47 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, alongside Florida's foggy beachline ...
High power laser beam focusing
Using proprietary production techniques, and benefiting from an ultra-stable production facility, Optical Surfaces Ltd has established itself as a leading supplier of fast focusing, on-axis, parabolic mirrors for high power laser experiments. Inherently on-axis parabolic mirrors allow a higher f-number (<0.7) to be achieved ...
Digantara launches India’s 1st homegrown space surveillance mission via SpaceX’s Transporter-12
Digantara has announced the launch of the company's SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking), inaugural mission that is dedicated to space surveillance and was launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission—SCOT aims to enhance space safety, optimize traffic management, and bolster national ...
LiveScience: China plans to build an enormous solar array in space
A Chinese Long March 5 rocket launches the China National Space Administration's Tianwen-1 Mars rover, lander and orbiter from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island on July 23, 2020. Chinese scientists have announced a plan to build an enormous, ...
Forrester’s Digest: UAE’s Space42 wants to build LEO constellation
Artistic rendition of Space42's Thuraya 4 satellite on-orbit. Space42 is the newly-established combination of Abu Dhabi’s Al Yah (YahSat) and Bayanat AI, which operates the Thuraya fleet of satellites. Its latest, Thuraya 4, was launched on January 3rd into its ...
XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations
XMM-Newton The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays coming from the very edge of a supermassive black hole in the heart of a nearby galaxy. The results paint a fascinating picture that defies how we thought matter ...
