A ‘No Go’ for the SpaceX 10th Starlink Mission
SpaceX stood down from the planned Saturday, July 11th launch attempt of the company's tenth Starlink mission to allow more time for checkouts. The team is working to identify the next earliest launch opportunity and will announce a new target ...
Satnews Perspectives Video Interview with Daniel L. Jablonsky, President and CEO, Maxar Technologies
Daniel L. Jablonsky was appointed to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxar Technologies and to the Company’s Board of Directors on January 13, 2019. Previously, Mr. Jablonsky had served as President of DigitalGlobe since October 2017, ...
Ka-Band Speed Limits for IFC Services Expunged by Viasat
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has removed internet speed limits delivered to the aircraft across all of its business aviation Ka-band service plans. Additionally, the company has doubled its minimum committed internet speed to the aircraft for the same Ka-band service ...
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UK Sees OneWeb System Offering “Resilience” + SES Continues to Discuss Cuts
Alok Sharma, the UK’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and the man about to be responsible for running the UK’s arm of OneWeb, told a House of Commons all-party BEIS scrutiny committee that using OneWeb ...
Virgin Galactic Signs Space Act Agreement with NASA
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or “the Company”) has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (“ISS”) while enabling the development ...
A Record Full Duration Test of a Hybrid Rocket Engine is Achieved by Gilmour Space
Gilmour Space Technologies has achieved one of the longest, hybrid rocket engine test firings in the world: a 110-second mission duration burn of the company's upper stage engine. The test is a significant milestone for Gilmour Space, which is pioneering ...
Kleos Space Receives Financial Commitments
Artistic rendition of a Kleos Space Scouting Mission smallsat. Image is courtesy of the company. Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) has received commitments from entities controlled by Janet Cameron to raise €1.8 million via the issue of 10,000,000 ...
China Launches the APSTAR-6D Satellite
A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the commercial telecommunication satellite APSTAR-6D blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 9, 2020.Photo is courtesy of Xinhua. On July 9, China successfully launched the APSTAR-6D satellite ...
Northrop Grumman Navigation Expertise Added to the Perseverance Mars Rover
The Perseverance Rover will feature Northrop Grumman's LN-200S inertial measurement unit. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech. This summer, Northrop Grumman is playing an important role in a historic phase of Mars exploration. Northrop Grumman’s LN-200S inertial measurement unit (IMU) will provide ...
Ten Successful Years for Kongsberg’s AISSAT-1
AISSat-1 signals captured over a 1,250 day period of time.Image is courtesy of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. KONGSBERG is celebrating 10 successful years since the AISSat-1 AIS-receiving satellite, complete with its KONGSBERG AIS payload, was launched from the Satish ...
Capella Space Now Has a Research Partnership with the NGA
Capella Space has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The CRADA gives Capella access to NGA researchers for deeper insight into problems and in return NGA gains access to Capella Space’s SAR ...
UPDATE: iRocket’s USAF is for Fully Reusable, Autonomous, Small Rockets — Flight-Ready in Less Than 24 Hours
A rendering of iRocket's Shockwave launch vehicle, lifting off from Spaceport Oklahoma to support a National Security Mission for the Department of Defense. iRocket signed a Phase II RAPID Other Transaction Agreement contract with the U.S. Air Force. The award ...
Comtech Telecommunications’ $2.2 Million of Follow-on Contracts for Military SATCOM TWTAs
During Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s (NASDAQ: CMTL) fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 the company was awarded contracts valued at more than $2.2 million for Ka-band high-power traveling wave tube. The Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., is part of ...
