UPDATE: Rocket Lab’s 20th Electron Launch Anomaly Flight Review Results + First Stage Recovery
On May 15, 2021, Rocket Lab experienced an anomaly almost three minutes into the company’s 20th Electron launch. Following a successful lift-off from Launch Complex 1, Electron proceeded through a nominal first stage engine burn, stage separation, and stage 2 ...
UPDATE 2: United Launch Alliance Launch Of USSF SMC’s SBIRS GEO Flight 5 Mission Postponed
ULA Launch Director Steve Huff has announced that countdown operations for this USSF SMC SBIRS GEO Flight 5 push into space has been postponed. During the Centaur liquid oxygen (LOX) chilldown operations, the team identified an anomalous system response that ...
SES Government Solutions Develops Mission-Critical Comms For Key Combatant Command Via O3b MEO Constellation
SES Government Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, in close partnership with a key U.S. Government customer, designed, developed and fielded an O3b Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) reachback capability to provide mission-critical communications for a key combatant command. Four O3b ...
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Comtech Xicom’s TWTAs Receive Contract For U.S. Military Comms System
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has announced that their Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., has been awarded a $2.0 million order for rugged, Ka-Band, high power, traveling wave tube amplifiers (“TWTAs”) for a U.S. military communications system ...
ViaLite Product Distribution Enjoys European Expansion Through EMCO Elektronik
ViaLite’s long term distributor in Germany, EMCO Elektronik, has extended its coverage to include Austria and Switzerland, giving access for those countries to ViaLite’s advanced RF over fiber systems along with comprehensive product support. EMCO has been a ViaLite distributor ...
Sateliot + Spanish Ministry Of Defense Involved In IoT Smallsat Constellation Project
Sateliot is preparing with a dozen companies and the Spanish Ministry of Defense the deployment of a constellation of LEO smallsats that, in addition to the democratization of IoT with 5G coverage, will also enable a secure information exchange system ...
SSPI Opens “20 Under 35” Nominations To Be Honored @ The Satellite Innovation Industry Event
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has opened nominations for the “20 Under 35” cohort of 2021. The “20 Under 35” will be honored at the annual Future Leaders Celebration in October during Satellite Innovation 2021. Nominations are due by ...
SENER In Poland Working On Payload Security For Scientific Instruments For The ESA FLEX Mission
SENER is developing a project for containers for transporting and storing the payload of a satellite for the European Space Agency's Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) "green" mission, which will monitor the condition of plants from space. The contract with Leonardo results ...
Comtech Xicom’s Q/V-Band TWTAs Deliver Millions With High-Speed Net Order
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced that ,during the company's Q3 of fiscal 2021, their Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., was awarded a contract valued at more than $3.0 million for Q/V-Band traveling wave tube amplifiers (“TWTAs”) ...
More Starlink + OneWeb & SoftBank Plus SpaceX & Google Cloud
SpaceX will launch 52 Starlink satellites the weekend of May 15th. The normal batch of 60 is being amended as SpaceX has a couple of paying guest craft on board for the launch. This will be Launch 27 for Starlink ...
Mynaric Names A New + Highly Experienced VP Of Strategic Solutions
Mynaric (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: M0Y, ISIN: DE000A0JCY11) has announced that Tim Deaver has been appointed the company's VP Strategic Solutions — Mr. Deaver possesses more than 30 years of experience with governmental space programs. Tim Deaver Tim will operate out ...
Centricus Acquisition Corp. Combines With Arqit Limited To Focus On Cyber Security With Quantum Encryption Technology
The following information reveals the action taken with Arqit Limited and Centricus Acquisition Corp... Arqit Limited (“Arqit”), a leader in quantum encryption technology and Centricus Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: CENH, CENHW, CENHU) (“Centricus”), a special purpose acquisition company, have entered into ...
Mynaric and SpaceLink Partner to Deploy Optical Inter-Satellite Link Terminals in MEO
Pictured above left to right: SpaceLink’s Rob Singh, CTO, Larry Rubin, COO, Dave Bettinger, CEO. Mynaric’s Tina Ghataore, CCO, Joachim Horwath, CTO, Bulent Altan, CEO, Ali Younis, VP U.S. Business Development Mynaric and SpaceLink today agreed on the framework of a ...
