UPDATE 1: Thales Alenia Space Built SES-17 + SYRACUSE 4A Satellites Successfully Launched By Arianespace
The Arianespace VA255 launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Photo is courtesy of Arianespace. On Sunday, October 24, at 02:10 UTC, Ariane 5 lifted off from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) and successfully orbited two satellites built by ...
EXOLAUNCH Expands Their Operations Into North America + Names U.S. CEO
EXOLAUNCH has expanded their business operations and sales in North America by opening offices in Denver, Colorado, and Washington, DC. To lead its US operations (Exolaunch, Inc. doing business as Exolaunch USA), capture new market opportunities, and continue business growth ...
NASA’s DART Journeys To Vandenberg Space Force Base For Launch
Just two days after leaving the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in a specialized container carefully strapped to the deck of a semi-trailer truck, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft arrived in California. The truck, ...
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DoD’s DIU Strengthens Domestic, sUAS Base With 8 Awards
As part of the nation’s effort to ensure a robust small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) industrial base for national and economic security, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has made eight awards, totaling approximately $14 million through ...
Three New Directors Named By ESA
The ESA Council has appointed three new ESA directors for Commercialization, Industry and Procurement, for Earth Observation Programs as well as for Navigation. This occurs in a context where boosting commercialization for a green and digital Europe is one of ...
Forrester’s Digest: SES-17 Launch Delayed / EUTELSAT + UHD Importance / Intelsat’s Bankruptcy Exit Plan Hearing Delayed
The launch of SES-17 has been delayed. Arianespace stated that investigations are ongoing in order to identify a new launch date from the Kourou spaceport. The Ariane 5 launch vehicle and spacecraft SES-17 and fellow passenger SYRACUSE 4A are in ...
NASA Awards Millions$$ To Underfunded Jurisdictions
NASA has awarded $28 million to fund the next five years of research infrastructure development across 28 jurisdictions. The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a part of NASA’s Office of Stem Engagement and based out of the agency’s ...
Intellian and Inmarsat’s Newest FleetBroadband Terminals For L-Band ELERA
New FB250 and Fleet One terminals enhance Inmarsat service offering Intellian has received type approval from Inmarsat for its new FB250 and Fleet One L-band terminals, making it one of the first to market with user terminals for operation on ...
Spacepath Communications’ New SATCOM Amplifier To Debut At CABSAT
SpacePath 650W Ka-Band high-power amplifier There is a new range of outdoor, uplink amplifiers with unique lightweight design on display in Dubai for first time. SpacePath Communications (‘SpacePath’) a dedicated, European-based SATCOM amplifier manufacturer and equipment supplier, will be showcasing ...
General Atomics ASI Completes Transfer Of MQ-9A Reaper UAS To The U.S.M.C.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed the transfer of two, MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to the U.S. Marine Corps — the two aircraft have been operated by the USMC since 2018 under a Company ...
D-Orbit’s Nebula Cloud Platform Offering Is Successfully Demo’d In Space
D-Orbit has successfully completed the orbital testing of Nebula, a cloud platform designed to provide distributed, high-performance, data analytics computing and storage capabilities in space. Nebula is a hardware-software environment that enables end-users to uplink and run software and AI/ML ...
Rogue Space Completes Several Milestones, Including The Closing Of Their Initial Investment Round
Rogue Space Systems Corporation, a U.S. company developing a smart spacecraft program and planning to offer transport and in-space services to the growing space market, has closed their initial round of investment to support the development of their spacecraft programs ...
Infostellar Series B Funding Raises Million$
Infostellar, a Japanese Ground-Segment-as-a-Service (GSaaS) provider, has completed the first round of their Series B fundraising for a total of ￥700M ($6.16 million) through a third-party allotment of shares with Space Frontier Fund (SPARX Innovation for Future Co., Ltd.), Mitsubishi ...
