Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed an amendment to its CO2M contract worth €169 million with project prime contractor OHB for the development and qualification of the payloads for the first two satellites in the CO2M mission, part of Europe’s Copernicus program. Copernicus is the core satellite […]
Inmarsat’s ORCHESTRA Is Tuned To Deliver Additional Capacity At Key Ports And Airports’ Hotspots
Singapore was chosen because it is one of the world’s busiest container ports, as well as being one of the most demanding environments because of equatorial weather conditions such as heavy rain and high humidity. Inmarsat, provider of global, mobile satellite communications, has completed the first phases of testing of innovative technology developments for ORCHESTRA, the […]
AAC Clyde Space’s Follow-On Order For Europe’s New Weather Satellites, MetOp-SG
The MWIs will provide cloud and precipitation products and all-weather surface imagery to support numerical weather predictions at regional and global scales. Omnisys, AAC Clyde Space’s new subsidiary, secured an EUR 0.47 M (approx. SEK 4.9 M) order to deliver strategic spare parts to Airbus Defence and Space for Europe’s next generation of meteorological satellites, […]
ESA Contracts Airbus For Further Development Of The Agency’s LISA Mission
Airbus has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to further develop the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), one of the most ambitious science missions ESA has planned to date. With Phase B1 now underway, the detailed mission design and final technology development activities for the gravitational wave observatory are […]
Satellite Laser Communication System Projected To Grow To Million$$$$ By 2030
The global satellite laser communication system market size is expected to grow from $356.8 million in 2021 to $5205.7 million by 2030, at a CAGR of 39.8% from 2022 to 2030 — comms may be fully in space or in a ground-to-satellite or satellite-to-ground application, this information according to an analysis by Market Statsville Group […]
A Major NATO Airborne Contract Goes To Horizon Technologies For Their Flying Fish™ Airborne SIGINT System
Horizon Technologies has been assigned a £2 million contract by a NATO customer for the company’s FlyingFish™ airborne SIGINT system. This follows a number of 1Q 2022 orders from a variety of customers around the world seeking to upgrade their ISR capabilities. Horizon Technologies’ FlyingFish™ system is currently involved in NATO operations along the Ukrainian […]
Miratlas Secures Million$€ In Seed Funding
Miratlas has raised 2 million euros in seed funding — the round was led by Karista and supported by Région Sud Investissement and private investors. This major, initial funding is a key step for Miratlas, which seeks to build industrial capacities to deploy its instruments globally and step up company developments. Founded in 2018 and […]
Wyld + DEWA Partner To Launch New IoT Satellite Network + Services For The Utilities Sector
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has launched its first satellite — DEWA-SAT1 — and Wyld Networks has partnered with DEWA R&D Centre and Infra X, the telecoms arm of Digital DEWA, to develop IoT terminals to support the new satellite IoT network — Wyld is responsible for delivering the satellite IoT terminals for […]
Boeing Starliner And Rosie The Rocketeer En Route To ISS After Reaching Planned Orbit
While this Starliner mission has no crew, it does have a passenger. It’s carrying an anthropomorphic test device named “Rosie the Rocketeer” …. The Boeing [NYSE: BA] CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after successfully performing the planned orbital insertion burn 31 minutes into flight. The spacecraft is expected […]
United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches the Boeing CST-100 Starliner on Orbital Flight Test-2
“This launch is a critical step towards future human spaceflight onboard Atlas V and we look forward to the remainder of this mission.” United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V lifted off on May 19 at 6:54 p.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on […]