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There are 28 small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on ESA’s Hera planetary defense mission, which involves about 100 companies in total. These SMEs are building European cutting-edge technologies for the spacecraft, its instruments and two CubeSats. The Hera mission ...

HawkEye 360 Inc. is celebrating the firm's inaugural satellite launch five years ago — the three Pathfinder satellites launched on December 3, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — ...

Airbus has been awarded the latest phase in the European Space Agency (ESA) TRUTHS mission as part of ESA’s Earth Observation Earth Watch program — the 109.3 million euros contract covers detailed definition of the mission and payload, and focuses ...

A trio of polar satellites that were once frontline in NOAA's ability to predict weather and climate from space, are now operated through a new, cloud-based commercial engineering services contract called POES Extended Life. When NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite Series ...

Vyoma has been distinguished in multiple categories of the smallsat competitions organized by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) — these prestigious awards were announced during the 2023 Small Satellite Conference in Berlin on November 23, ...

Zenno Astronautics (Zenno) has celebrated the first space launch of Z01™, the company's world-first, superconducting, magnetic torquer for fuel-free spacecraft attitude control — Zenno’s on-orbit validation of Z01 is the first-ever demonstration of high-temperature superconducting electromagnets in space, unlocking new ...

AAC Clyde Space has been selected by Iota Technology to execute an end-to-end satellite mission as part of MagQuest, a multimillion-dollar competition to advance how to measure Earth's magnetic field. The mission will see a 4U EPIC satellite, equipped with ...

Amazon has signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment plans for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s LEO satellite broadband network. Project Kuiper satellites were designed from the start to accommodate multiple launch providers and vehicles, allowing ...

Marble Imaging and Scanway Space have entered into a strategic partnership for the joint development of the multispectral payload for a constellation of smallsats for EO, owned by Marble Imaging. The targeted constellation will include as many as 200 satellites ...

Vector Space Biosciences, Inc., in collaboration with Oracle and NVIDIA, has a new smallsat launch platform designed for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The platform is powered by… 1) A biosciences lab 2) A CubeSat lab 3) A language modeling/AI lab ...