A new contract for GomSpace—a smallsat company with a 75 satellite mission track record—has been received by the company, valued at 760,000 euros. The European Space Agency, ESA, is the […]
Attitude Control System
Samara Aerospace delivers “Cicada” payload to Impulse Space for 1st in-space validation of MSAC technology
Samara Aerospace has delivered its first flight payload, Cicada, to Impulse Space, marking a significant milestone in the company’s path toward operational spaceflight heritage. The hardware, comprised of four of […]
Samara Aerospace awarded NASA SBIR Phase I to advance breakthrough spacecraft attitude control tech
Samara Aerospace has been awarded a Phase I contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to advance its Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC)—a cutting- edge technology designed […]
Silicon Sensing collaboratively conducted a test program with Science Tokyo
Latest IMU tested for performance in extreme space environment Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd. and Japan’s Science Tokyo have collaboratively conducted a program to test the capabilities of the company’s DMU41 inertial measurement unit […]
Blue Canyon launches several smallsats via the SpaceX Transporter-11 mission
Multiple spacecraft and components designed by Blue Canyon Technologies were successfully launched on the recent SpaceX Transporter-11 rideshare mission. Ridesharing is a cost-effective way for the company’s diverse customers to […]
Zenno’s superconducting technology opens a universe of new possibilities in space
Zenno Astronautics (Zenno) has celebrated the first space launch of Z01™, the company’s world-first, superconducting, magnetic torquer for fuel-free spacecraft attitude control — Zenno’s on-orbit validation of Z01 is the first-ever […]
Marotta Controls delivers 30,000th CoRe Valve to SpaceX
Marotta Controls, an aerospace and defense supplier, celebrates another production milestone — the delivery of the company’s 30,000th CoRe® valve to SpaceX at the latter’s rocket development site in McGregor, […]
Aerospacelab + Exolaunch successfully launch the Grégoire satellite
Aerospacelab and Exolaunch have launched the former’s Grégoire satellite, the company’s second private smallsat to travel into space. Two years after Aerospacelab’s first satellite mission (Arthur-1) flew into space on […]
Fuel-free satellite pointing system from Zenno surpasses million$$ in sales
Zenno Astronautics (Zenno) has surpassed $48 million in product sales for the company’s superconducting magnetorquer for spacecraft attitude control, the Z01™. Built on Zenno’s proprietary superconducting magnet technology, Z01 is […]
Axelspace develops a Ka-band radio for EO smallsats
Axelspace Corporation has successfully developed a Ka-band radio for Earth Observation (EO) smallsats — the radio operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radio. The collaborative research […]