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Cubic’s Nuvotronics To Develop HAB To Support WGS-SP For The US Army

Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB) has announced Nuvotronics, which operates within the company’s Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions (CMPS) business division, was awarded a contract worth approximately $5 million to develop a Wideband Global Satellite Surrogate Payload (WGS-SP) for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) C5ISR Center and Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD). Nuvotronics […]

KSF Space Foundation + Kuwait College Of Science + Technology To Launch A Smallsat Via High-Altitude Balloon

KSF Space Foundation announced that the state of Kuwait will be the first in GCC and North Africa to send a cubesat to near space to measure climate change and ultra violet radiation in partnership with KSF Space’s next mission, scheduled for high altitude balloon launch in June of 2021. Kuwait College of Science & […]

Living Bacteria Will Be Ballooning Its Way To Space

KSF Space Foundation has announced that the Kingdom of Jordan will be the first in the Middle East and North Africa to send living microbiology and bacteria cells to space with KSF Space’s next mission, which is scheduled for June of 2021. Yarmok University in Jordan will be the leading all of the universities in […]

SATCOM’s Ballooning Competition Continues Aloft…

In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off —(Ed: that must have brought a smile to SATCOM actors’ and providers’ faces]. This action was followed by Facebook, who then exited their similar project. However, the […]