New Symphonie, the recently established consortium of 22 European companies, has won the European Commission call for tenders entitled “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space-based […]
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South Africa’s SunbandilaSat Heading For Deorbit + Re-Entry Burn Up
The South African satellite SumbandilaSat (Pathfinder in Venda) is reaching the end of its life and initiated deorbit procedures on Friday, December 10, 2021. The satellite was launched in 2009 […]
Flexible Signal Processing Tools Contract From ESA Awarded To Spire
Spire Global, Inc.(NYSE: SPIR) has been awarded a contract under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Navigation Innovation and Support Program (NAVISP) Element 2 Program funded by UK Space Agency. Spire […]
UPDATE: SpaceX Accomplishes The Launch Of NASA’s IXPE Mission
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1:00 a.m., EST, Thursday, December 9, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint […]
Satellite Build Contract Assigned To Airbus By ESA For The Ariel Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Airbus to build the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) \mission — Ariel is the fourth, medium-class mission in ESA’s […]
NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online
This diagram shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlighted is the orbit of the double asteroid Didymos, […]
GomSpace + ESA Sign ESA SCOUT-1 Mission Implementation Contract
GomSpace A/S and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract for the ESA SCOUT Earth Observation mission to be launched in 2024. The contract value is 24 million […]
U.S. DoD Selects BAE Systems For A New Generation of Space-Qualified ICs
BAE Systems has been selected by the Department of Defense (DoD) to qualify a new generation of integrated circuit technology for use in the harsh environment of space. The new, […]
SES’ Phase 1 C-Band Transition Aided By USSI Global
USSI Global has supported SES in successfully completing all Phase I, accelerated, C-band clearing and relocation activities. SES is seeking to clear 280 MHz of the C-band spectrum to help […]
EUMETSAT Council’s ‘Green Light’ For Weather + Climate Data Improvement
The European meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, has consolidated their position as a leading provider of weather, climate and Earth system data and has announced a series of new agreements, contracts […]