
SmallSat Symposium Virtual — Expand Your Business + Observe Networking Made Simple
With in-person gatherings still months away, SmallSat Symposium Virtual provides access to exciting new ideas as well as fosters a multitude of networking opportunities. Whether your interest is in understanding the changing marketplace, connecting with others, or discovering new technologies, ...

With 133 Spacecraft Aboard, The SpaceX Transporter-1 Mission To Be Initiated On January 23
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, January 23, for launch of Transporter-1, SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida — the 42-minute launch window opens at 9:40 a.m ...

HawkEye 360’s Cluster 2 Smallsat Launch Set For Saturday, January 23
HawkEye 360's next generation of advanced commercial RF sensing satellites are scheduled to launch Saturday morning, January 23, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral as part of Spaceflight Inc.'s SXRS-3 rideshare mission. HawkEye Cluster 2 LaunchDate: January 23, ...
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SpaceX May Well Be Rig’d
Why on Earth would SpaceX purchase oil rigs? Why, to convert them into seagoing launch platforms, that's why… especially as such edifices can trim costs as trajectories for launch vehicles are heavily influenced by the location of the rocket liftoffs ...

Launch Activity Hits 20-Year High, According to Space Foundation’s Just Released The Space Report 2020 Q4
In their newly released quarterly issue of The Space Report, Space Foundation, a 501(c)(3) global space advocate for nearly 40 years, announced 2020 Q4 research and analysis findings revealing substantial growth in key areas. Driven by the pace of SpaceX and ...

Gilat’s ESA Technology Successfully Demo’d Over Inmarsat’s Global XPress
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT) has successfully tested their Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA) over Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) network — Gilat’s open-architecture proven ESA has been integrated with Inmarsat’s G-MODMAN solution. For the first time, a live demonstration ...

Momentus To Provide Orbital Maneuvering Services To Qosmosys
Momentus Inc. (“Momentus” or the “Company”) and Qosmosys, a new venture founded in Singapore last year, have announced a service agreement for two 3UXL protoflight cubesats in 2022, followed by two options in 2023. Momentus will provide the orbital maneuvering ...

Optical Comms Collaboration Between Swedish Space Corp. + Airbus D&S Netherlands
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands (Airbus DS NL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaborative activities regarding ground equipment for space-to-ground optical communication. The agreement will accelerate the development of commercially viable optical ...

Northrop Grumman’s Validation Test Of A New Rocket Motor For United Launch Alliance Is A Success
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has conducted a validation ground test of an extended length 63-inch in diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63XL — data sheet at this direct link...) in Promontory, Utah. This variation of the company’s GEM 63 ...

Airbus Meets Milestone, One Step Closer to Building Next Gen Military Satellite
Airbus was awarded the Skynet 6A contract in July 2020 and teams across its sites in Stevenage, Portsmouth and Hawthorn have been working on the program to achieve this key milestone. Meetings with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) were ...

Two Payload Missions Booked By ESA On The Airbus Bartolomeo Platform
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus have agreed on service orders for two independent payload missions to be launched to the Bartolomeo payload hosting facility on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022 and 2024, respectively. The Bartolomeo platform, ...

Space Micro Welcomes A Director of Radiation Effects and Hardening To The Company
Space Micro has announced David Hansen will join the firm's senior management team as Director, Radiation Effects and Hardening. Dr. David Hansen Dr. Hansen is a world-renowned expert in naturally occurring and manmade radiation effects found in defense, civil and ...

Recent Integrasys + NSR Webinar Recording Now Available For Viewing
Integrasys recently hosted a webinar with NSR — The Revolution of Capacity Price and Network Deployment. The webinar hosted 243 attendees and included interactive questions and answers — watch the webinar's recording if you were unable to attend this event ...