Made In Space Europe, a Redwire subsidiary, now has an agreement with Momentus to jointly develop a robotic spaceflight mission that is scheduled to launch in 2022. Under the MoU, the companies will mount a Made In Space robotic arm on a Momentus Vigoride transfer vehicle. With the robotic arm, Vigoride could grab onto a […]
A DirectTV + Dish Network Merger Poses Risks… Eutelsat Share Price Rosy—Jefferies Says Not So For SES
A report from Standard & Poors Market Intelligence (S&P) by Sarah Barry-James suggests that the potential for some sort of ‘merger’ between AT&T’s DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network poses risks. Ergen is on the record as saying that a combination of the two DTH pay-TV giants is “inevitable.” However, S&P reminds readers that Constantine […]
Third Kepler Space Data Backhaul Smallsat — TARS — Launched By Arianespace
Kepler’s LEO constellation has expanded with the successful launch of the company’s third satellite — the satellite, internally referred to as TARS, was launched onboard the Arianespace Vega SSMS (Small Spacecraft Mission Service) from the Guiana Space Centre at approximately 01:51 UTC, with communication established shortly thereafter. Developed as part of the UK’s Satellite Applications […]
Satellogic’s Hypatia Smallsat Successfully Launched
Satellogic has launched their new spacecraft from the Guiana Space Center via a launch procured by Spaceflight, Inc. — the satellite, a NewSat Mark IV, was delivered to a SSO LEO on a Vega rocket from Arianespace at 1:51am UTC on September 3, 2020. The spacecraft is named “Hypatia” after the philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician […]
A Smallsat Rideshare Opportunity Now Available From NanoAvionics
NanoAvionics is now making available a hosted payload flight opportunity to LEO onboard a reliable satellite bus and, as the company has stated, at a low cost. The payload will be integrated into the NanoAvionics flight-proven 6U bus M6P and launched during the 3rd quarter of 2021. This is a considerable opportunity for company’s that […]
AMERGINT Procures Raytheon’s Space-Based Optics Biz
AMERGINT Technologies Holdings, Inc. (ATH) has completed the acquisition of Raytheon Technologies’ electro-optics technology business headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut, which will be renamed Danbury Mission Technologies (Danbury). Previously a division of Raytheon Technologies’ Collins Aerospace Systems unit, Danbury is a leading technology provider of electro-optical systems for national security space missions and defense survivability needs. […]
Two Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) Built Smallsats Successfully Gain Orbit
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is celebrating the successful launch and deployment of the GHGSat-C1 greenhouse gas monitoring smallsat and the Slovenian NEMO-HD Earth Observation (EO) smallsat, both developed in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Both satellites were in contact with ground control within hours of their launch on September 2, 2020, aboard an Arianespace Vega rocket […]
USGIF’s Board of Directors Newest Member
There’s a new member appointed to the foundation at United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), who will be serving as the Foundation’s chair of its Finance Committee. Gary Sladic has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Currently he is vice president of finance and accounting for Noblis. At Noblis, Sladic is responsible for financial […]
Dutch Company, Hyperion Technologies’, SmallSat Components launched on Vega VV16c
September 3, 2020 at 3:51 am CEST, was an historical date for the Dutch space company Hyperion Technologies, with the launch of Vega VV16, that took 53 small satellites into space. Arianespace’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (PoC) carried, among these, three small satellites of particular interest to the Dutch space company […]
Rocket Lab’s First Configurable Photon Satellite Is Successfully Launched
Rocket Lab has launched their first in-house designed and built operational satellite, cementing the company’s evolution from a launch provider to an end-to-end space solutions company that offers turnkey satellites and spacecraft components, launch, and on-orbit operations. The satellite, named ‘First Light,’ is the first spacecraft from Rocket Lab’s family of configurable Photon satellites to […]