L3Harris brings Maxar into their Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the SDA for the design + production of 14 spacecraft
Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, announced on August 9th the firm had been selected by L3Harris Technologies for the design and production of 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for their Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development ...
UPDATE 1: 52 Starlinks are launched to join the SpaceX smallsat constellation
On Tuesday, August 9th, at 10:14 p.m., ET, SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the third flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which ...
The largest smallsat constellation build contract to date received by Blue Canyon Technologies
Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has been selected to provide 18 cubesats for The Tomorrow Companies Inc. ("Tomorrow.io") microwave sounding mission. In the company's largest constellation delivery to date, Blue Canyon ...
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DARPA initiates LEO Satellite ‘Translator’ development program
DARPA has selected 11 teams for Phase 1 of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program, known as Space-BACN, which aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable, optical communications terminal that adapts to most optical intersatellite link standards, translating between diverse satellite ...
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Northrop Grumman invests in new GEM rocket motor facilities in Utah
Northrop Grumman's GEM booster. Northrop Grumman has celebrated the expansion of solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities that will support increased production of the company's GEM solid rocket boosters in Magna, Utah. Wendy Williams, Northrop Grumman, vice president, Propulsion Systems, was ...
The initial operating capability of Global ASNT is delivered to the USAF by Raytheon I&S
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, recently delivered the Initial Operating Capability for the Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal system, or Global ASNT, to the U.S. Air Force. Global ASNT ensures robust communications to nuclear bomber, missile and ...
MMA Design’s next generation DaHGR antenna launches with Singapore’s NeuSAR Mission
MMA Design under a contract with DSO National Laboratories, Singapore – delivered a deployable, membrane-based space antenna for NeuSAR, Singapore’s first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observation mission. The NeuSAR mission successfully launched on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at 2032 hours ...
Orbital Transports ties in with the Red Hat Partner ecosystem
Orbital Transports has joined the Red Hat partner ecosystem, offering customers and solution builders in the smallsat industry greater confidence when building next-generation smallsat applications using Red Hat technologies. As a Red Hat Ready Partner, Orbital Transports will offer Red ...
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Nexgen optical comms terminal to be developed by Mynaric for DARPA
Mynaric has been selected as a key development partner to create a benchtop model of a next-generation, optical communications terminal as part of Phase 1 of the Space-based adaptive communications node (Space-BACN) program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
High success rate for KSATlite over the past year
KSATlite is KSATs easy-to-use, ground network solution that offers optimized support for smallsats and large constellations. The offered solution has gained popularity in the smallsat marketplace and is currently experiencing record-high demand. KSATlite has supported 628,863 satellite contacts in the ...
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HII awarded a million$$ USAF contract to support MAF Distributed Mission Ops
HII’s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division has been awarded a Mobility Air Force Distributed Mission Operations (MAF DMO) task order under the U.S. Air Force’s Training Systems Acquisition III contract — the $79 million task order includes a base period ...
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AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite arrives @ Cape Canaveral for upcoming launch
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has announced that the company's BlueWalker 3 test satellite (BW3) has arrived at Cape Canaveral. Artistic ...
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Capella Space’s Next Generation Satellites with Enhanced Imagery Capabilities
Artist rendering of the Capella Space third generation satellite, Acadia. Capella Space, an Earth observation company, unveiled several new capabilities planned for its next generation satellites, that further expands the company's latest, data offerings. This new generation of Capella satellites, ...
