
NASA just released 2022 NASA State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology Report
The following is an announcement from NASA...NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute is pleased to announce the official release of the 2022 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report. This endeavor was made successful by the contributions of numerous people across NASA and ...

Starlinks — 53 in number — are motivated to orbit by SpaceX and a Falcon 9 launch vehicle
OnThursday, February 2nd., at 2:43 a.m., ET (7:43 UTC), a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched CRS-24, Eutelsat ...

Northrop Grumman’s executive, a former NASA astronaut, receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris awards Doug Hurley (R) and Bob Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Photo: NASA Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) executive Doug Hurley, former NASA astronaut and Colonel in the United States Marine Corps, was ...
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Kleos Space achieves a daily data delivery milestone
Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) has reached the milestone of daily product delivery collected from a strategically critical area of interest to its early adopter customers. RF data is collected by the Vigilance Mission (KSF1) satellites and is ...
General Atomics-ASI, LEO, Military, MQ-9A RPA, RPA / UAV, SmallSat, U.S. Air National Guard, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), USAF

GA-ASI flight tests LEO SATCOM on MQ-9A
Capability provides global coverage enabling operations anywhere in the world On December 22, 2022, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the Air National Guard (ANG), with joint support from the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and U.S. Air Force (USAF), ...

Sidus Space closes million$ public offering + full exercise of Underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option
Sidus Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIDU), (“Sidus Space” or the “Company”) has closed its underwritten public offering of 17,250,000 shares of the company's Class A common stock (or pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) in lieu thereof, which included the full exercise ...
AAC Clyde Space, Business Moves, Contracts, Development, LEO, Multi-Mission, SmallSat, Spacecraft, Subsystems

AAC Clyde Space’s SEK 23.8 M order from U.S. company supplying spacecraft and other multi-mission systems
AAC Clyde Space has won an order for satellite subsystems valued at USD 2.3 M (approx. SEK 23.8 M) from a U.S. development company supplying spacecraft and other multi-mission systems. The U.S. company will integrate the subsystems on satellites for ...
Data Collection System (DCS), Electric Propulsion, In-Space Propulsion, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS), South Korea, Thales Alenia Space, United Kingdom (UK)

Thales Alenia Space to provide TETRA electric propulsion for Korea’s GEO-KOMPSAT-3 satellite
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to provide electric propulsion for incorporation on their GEO-KOMPSAT-3 (GK3) satellite. Artistic rendition of the GEO-KOMPSAT-3 satellite, ...
Drop-Pod, Microgravity, Research + Testing, Testing, UAV / RPA, UK Space Agency, United Kingdom (UK)

A 1st for sustained microgravity research + testing on Earth by Gravitlab Aerospace Services
With the company's reusable rockets and hybrid propellants, Gravitilab provides the world’s most sustainable suborbital launch technology and the world’s first, drone-based, drop-pod microgravity testing system, Louis, that removes the costs of drop towers or parabolic flight testing. Gravitilab Aerospace ...
Comtech, Engagement-as-a-Service (Eaas), EVOKE, Innovation Foundry, Internet of Things (IoT), News, Sirqul, Technology Partner

Comtech welcomes Sirqul as new EVOKE technology partner
EVOKE is Comtech's Innovation Foundry dedicated to pushing the boundaries of innovation to create + accelerate change across the global technology landscape Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) has announced that Sirqul will become the Company's first publicly announced, EVOKE, technology partner. EVOKE ...

Globecast’s Sainte Assise teleport receives WTA Tier 4 certification
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has announced that Globecast has achieved Tier 4 certification of that company's Sainte Assise Teleport outside Paris, France, under WTA’s Teleport Certification Program. Photo of the Sainte Assise teleport, courtesy of Globecast. The Sainte Assise ...
Calibration, Climate, Electronics, ESA, JAXA, Mapping, Meteosat, Monitoring, NASA, Radiation, SENER Aeroespacial

Sener Aerospace’s scanner mechanisms contracted for the Forum mission by ESA
Sener Aerospace has signed a contract to supply scanner and calibration mechanisms and electronics for the Forum mission (Far-Infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring), which will be the ninth Earth Explorer mission by the European Space Agency (ESA). By measuring ...
Airbus, Antennas, CNES, Electric Propulsion, Elera, ESA, Eurostar Neo, Global Xpress (GX), Inmarsat, Ka-Band, Kennedy Space Center, L-Band, Spot Beams, Telecommunications, UK Space Agency

Inmarsat’s-6 F2 satellite built by Airbus arrives on Airbus’ Beluga for launch in Florida
Airbus built Inmarsat-6 F2 satellite being packed in Toulouse © Airbus The second Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 geostationary telecommunications satellite (I-6 F2) has arrived on board an Airbus Beluga at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ready for its launch in February ...