SpaceX launches 22 Starlink small sats and attains two new records
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink satellites on Sept. 19, 2023. It was the record-setting 17th launch for this rocket's first stage. (Image credit: SpaceX) On Tuesday, September 19 at 11:38 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink ...
AST SpaceMobile achieves space-based 5G cell broadband connectivity from smartphones
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has successfully completed the first-ever 5G connection for voice and data between an everyday, unmodified smartphone and a satellite in space. AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite is 693 square feet in size, designed to ...
Sidus Space to launch LizzieSats on upcoming SpaceX Bandwagon mission
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has confirmed the company's plan to reallocate two LizzieSats to launch on an upcoming Bandwagon mission with SpaceX. The updated LizzieSat constellation configuration will advance cutting-edge LEO data collection and provide enhanced orbital flexibility for government ...
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True Anomaly receives million$$ USSF contract for SDA
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command has awarded a $17.4 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to True Anomaly, Inc. Under the award, True Anomaly™ will provide a suite of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) applications that ...
AMD Versal AI Edge Adaptive SoC for space apps
AMD has announced their Versal™ AI Edge XQRVE2302, the second device in the Versal adaptive SoC portfolio to be qualified for space flight. The XQRVE2302 is the first time the company has offered an adaptive SoC for space applications in ...
Atheras Analytics to improve Ka-band link of weather outage predictions
Atheras Analytics, a global leader in predicting and managing the effects of atmospheric/weather impairments on Ka-band and Q/V-band satellite links, has announced its successful award of a co-funded ARTES development contract, for its TEMPESTAS project. The project will be carried ...
Sierra Space reinvents the Space Station — affordable in-space infrastructure within reach
With completion of fifth successful structural test of revolutionary space station technology, Sierra Space ushers in the commercialization of LEO with significant cost savings for operating on-orbit Sierra Space has completed a fifth, sub-scale test of their revolutionary LIFE™ habitat ...
GMV successfully completes tests of robot designed for assembly and maintenance of structures in Earth’s orbit
Multinational technology company GMV successfully concluded ground validation tests for a space robot designed to assemble structures in Earth’s orbit as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) MIRROR project (Multi-arm Installation Robot for Readying ORUS and Reflectors). These tests ...
Northrop Grumman Australia to produce an additional MQ-4C Triton For the RAAF
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will produce an additional MQ-4C Triton multi-intelligence uncrewed aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) following the Australian government’s decision to provide funding. The contract award will bring the total fleet size in Australia ...
The Aerospace Corporation announces significant organizational changes
To align with changes within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the agency's focus on end-to-end operations, The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) has announced the firm will be making significant changes to organizational structure. Aerospace also announced several key hires, ...
HawkEye 360 announces RFIQ product for a deeper look at RF activity
HawkEye 360 Inc. has debuted an RFIQ™ product that introduces flexible spectrum collection options — customers can use RFIQ unprocessed in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) data to analyze signal characteristics or survey RF activity over large regions of the Earth. HawkEye ...
Northrop Grumman elects Vice President + President for the Space Systems division
Robert Fleming Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has elected Robert Fleming corporate vice president and president, Space Systems sector, effective October 9, 2023. Fleming will succeed Tom Wilson, who has decided to take a new role in the company for ...
Ubotica advances space AI “App Store”
Ubotica Technologies is developing the infrastructure to extend the Mobile App Store ecosystem into space and unlock Live Earth Intelligence. This new infrastructure will enable developers to easily deploy AI applications to satellites equipped with Ubotica's CogniSAT technology. Opening space ...
