Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has been awarded a 2.26 million euros contract by the European Space Agency (ESA), with the support of the Swedish National Space Agency, under its ARTES […]
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NOAA awards geostationary ground system sustainment services contract
NOAA has awarded the Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services (GGSS) contract to L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Palm Bay, Florida. The five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract will provide sustainment services to […]
Terran Orbital-developed PTD-3 enables 200 gigabits per second space-to-ground optical link
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has revealed that their Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite enabled a successful 200 gigabits per second space-to-ground optical link. The NASA satellite hosts the […]
NASA’s 2023 TechFlights Solicitation
NASA’s 2023 TechFlights solicitation is now open — offered are funding opportunities to researchers from U.S.-based industry, academia, and private research institutions to rapidly test technologies on commercial suborbital vehicles […]
A NASA smallsat swarm to be launched by Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission, a multi-CubeSat mission to test and demo autonomous swarm technologies, as well as automated space […]
Astroscale + Momentus offer NASA a solution to reboost Hubble
Astroscale U.S. Inc. and Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) are collaborating to offer NASA a sustainable solution for the agency’s Hubble Reboost efforts. The two companies recently responded to NASA’s Hubble […]
TRL Space awarded ESA funding
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently issued the first contract for the Lunar Geology Orbiter (LUGO), under which the international consortium led by Czech company TRL Space, will define the […]
SSC draft RFP released on SAM.gov for STEP 2.0 contract effort
A Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) for the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract effort is now available via SAM.gov for industry feedback submissions through Friday, May 19th. This […]
UPDATE 3: Rocket Lab pushes NASA’s TROPICS mission to orbit… Rocket Lab’s official launch report…
The ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ launch lifted-off on May 8th. at 13:00 NZST (01:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula deploying two of the […]
NASA awards contracts for NOAA coronagraph instrument Phase A study
NASA, on behalf of NOAA, has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study. These contracted firms will provide services […]