Rocket Lab’s next Electron Launch will be the 6th mission for iQPS
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company—this mission will be Electron’s 74th launch to date and 16th ...
INNOSPACE obtains launch authorization for 1st commercial launch mission ‘SPACEWARD’
INNOSPACE (KS:462350), a South Korean satellite launch service company, announced that it has become the first private company to obtain a commercial launch authorization from the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA)—with this authorization, INNOSPACE has completed all approval procedures for the maiden ...
Rocket Lab launches Synspective’s “Owl New World” mission with improved SAR capabilities
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully launched its 15th mission of the year and the first of 21 new launches for Synspective and 73rd launch overall. Photos captured by Satnews ...
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Viasat demos 1st satellite SMS messages on Android smartphone in Mexico
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has completed an in-country, first-of-its-kind, direct-to-device (D2D) demonstration in Mexico, featuring native SMS messages on the Android smartphone. The demonstration showcased smartphones sending and receiving messages over Viasat’s I-4 F3 satellite using 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) ...
ST Engineering iDirect’s Intuition Ground System now available
ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has announced the general availability of Intuition 1.1, its next-generation ground system. Built on cloud-native, multi-orbit architecture, this release introduces advanced capabilities designed to unify satellite operations, enhance adaptability and maximize ...
ESA’s report credits themselves for better in-flight connectivity and video-calling due to experiment with Viasat antenna
A report by ESA indicates that they are responsible for better in-flight streaming and video-calling due to a project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) that involved an experiment for a new type of antenna terminal together with ESA, ...
NASA awards Solstar Space an SBIR contract to develop lunar Wi-Fi system
Solstar Space (Solstar) has been awarded a NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract valued at $150,000 to develop a next-generation Lunar Wi-Fi Access Point (LWIFI-AP) to support the agency’s Artemis program and Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) ...
Infineon launches industry’s first radiation hardened buck controller with integrated gate drive
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has introduced the industry's first radiation-hardened (rad-hard) buck controller with an integrated gate drive—designed for Point of Load (PoL) power rails in commercial space systems and other extreme environments, the new device ...
Iridium awarded U.S. DoT contract for complementary PNT services deployment + testing
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) for an award through its Complementary Positioning,Navigation, and Timing (CPNT) Action Plan Rapid Phase Award II to support a broad network deployment of Iridium® PNT ...
KONGSBERG + Andøya Space to strengthen Norwegian space capabilities
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (‘KONGSBERG’) and Andøya Space have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in several domains of strategic importance to Norway and its allies. The MoU outlines a joint ambition to identify, define and pursue ...
SpaceX plans 2 Wednesday launches: Starlink smallsat Group 11-5 + SpainSat NGII from both coasts
Group 11-5 with 28 Starlink smallsats to launch from California SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 28 Starlink smallsats Group 11-5 to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg ...
Planet awarded Luno B contract by NGA for AI-enabled solutions
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has been awarded a contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Luno B indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The $12.8 million initial award is for Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance ...
