Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has opened nominations for the 2022 Better Satellite World Awards. The winners will be honored at the Better Satellite World Awards Celebration on December 5th. Nominations are due by September 16th, 2022. As part of its Better Satellite World Awards Celebration, SSPI honors three organizations that have demonstrated the […]
Two space vets join Sierra Space’s exec team
Sierra Space has completed two key appointments as the company moves toward launch of the Dream Chaser® spaceplane in 2023. Mukwatsibwoha “Kwatsi” Alibaruho joins as the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Mission & Launch and Recovery Operations and Jeff Davis is appointed as the Vice President (VP) of Flight Operations. Both appointments will report directly […]
Raytheon I&S to upgrade Australian border surveillance aircraft with advanced radar
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, will equip Australian border surveillance aircraft with its latest SeaVue Multi-Role radar under a contract with Cobham Special Mission. Under the contract, RI&S will upgrade Cobham’s fleet of Dash 8 fixed-wing aircraft to the most advanced version of its SeaVue multi-domain surveillance radar in support of Australian […]
Rocket Lab to supply solar power for the USSF’s new missile warning satellites
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced that the company’s high-efficiency, radiation-hardened, Coverglass Interconnected solar Cell (CIC) assemblies will power the three Lockheed Martin Next Gen OPIR GEO (NGG) satellites for the United States Space Force (USSF). The NGG program will deliver resilient global missile warning capabilities to counter emerging missile and counter-space threats […]
General Atomics satellite with Argos-4 payload completes pre-launch environmental testing
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully completed environmental testing of the company’s satellite platform and has integrated the Argos-4 hosted payload in preparation for a fall 2022 launch. GA-EMS is delivering the spacecraft as a Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) mission delivery order for the Argos Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) awarded to GA-EMS by […]
Space Foundation releases their Space Report 2022 Q2 that reveals global space economy growth
Space Foundation, a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983 for the global space ecosystem, today released The Space Report 2022 Q2, compiling data from nations around the planet to calculate the $469 billion space economy, which grew at a brisk 9% clip from 2020. Most of the money generated by the space industry came in […]
Severe weather + climate monitoring instrumented + spacecraft studies to be initiated by Lockheed Martin for NOAA
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] was selected by the NASA to further refine concepts for a critical instrument and the spacecraft bus for the NOAA’s GeoXO weather satellites, the next generation after the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R (GOES-R) series. These future satellites will ultimately help save lives by enabling even more accurate weather forecasting […]
Viasat selected by ESA to conduct multi-layered SATCOM study
Viasat UK Ltd., a subsidiary of global communications company Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a multi-layered SATCOM study focused on evaluating the use cases, market segments and technical aspects of future systems that will be comprised of networks that span multiple orbital types, including GEO, MEO, […]
Launch contract signed by Vaya Space + Alya
Alya Nanosatellites Constellation E.O. and Vaya Space, Inc. have signed a long-term, launch services agreement for the placement of a smallsat constellation into orbit. Both Vaya Space and Alya Nanosatellites have sustainability as core tenets of their respective missions and share the common goal of making a difference for the environment. Under the newly signed […]
Future Axiom commercial space station to incorporate L3Harris advanced comms link
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) will provide a critical communications radio to Axiom Space for that firm’s planned commercial space station — the S-band radio will mirror the functionality that exists on the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA’s Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles. The L3Harris C/TT 520 S-band radio will serve as the common data link […]