AAC Clyde Space has embarked upon a three year project named xSPANCION with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop an innovative, satellite constellation service, including the manufacture of 10 spacecraft. The UK Space Agency, through ESA, will co-fund the project. AAC Clyde Space intends to, outside this project, enter into customer service agreements for […]
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USGIF Scholarship Program Is Announced
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has announced the opening of its 2021 Scholarship Program — every year, USGIF awards scholarships of various amounts to exceptional students studying GEOINT, geospatial sciences, and other related fields. The USGIF has awarded $1.4 million in scholarships since the program began in 2004. Graduating high school seniors, undergraduate, […]
Here are the First Ever 2020 Satcoms Innovation Group Awards’ Winners
This is the first of what will be an annual event by the Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG). The winners of the first ever SIG Awards include QuadSAT, Te Pūnaha Ātea Auckland Space Institute, and Martin Coleman. The categories were: Innovation of the Year, Cooperation of the Year, Educational Project of the Year and Young Engineer of the Year. […]
SSPI’s 2020 Mentor of the Year is Dawn Harms of Momentus Inc.
This year’s 2020 Mentor of the Year Award from the Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) was announced and the honor goes to Dawn Harms, Chief Revenue Officer at Momentus Inc. Dawn will be honored on October 6 at SSPI’s 15th Annual Future Leaders Celebration for the attention, support and guidance she has provided to […]
Satcoms Innovation Group’s Nomination of ViaLite
ViaLite Communications has been nominated for the Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG) ‘Cooperation Award’ for its joint project with Stanley Healthcare on installing a new critical communications system at the Royal Liverpool Hospital’s COVID-19 ward. The hospital’s contractor commissioned Stanley Healthcare to install the paging system at short notice. ViaLite was approached to create a fully […]
Orbital Micro Systems Receives Frost & Sullivan Award
Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), has been selected by global market research firm Frost & Sullivan to receive the 2020 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award in the Environmental Monitoring Systems market. OMS was selected for its Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) satellite constellation and International Centre for Earth Data (ICED) information processing and distribution platform, which […]
iDirect Government for Second Consecutive Year is Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work
iDirect Government (iDirectGov), provider of satellite communications to the military and government, announces that for the second consecutive year, it was named the Washington Business Journal’s (WBJ) Best Places to Work for the large company category, ranking fourth on the list. The WBJ acknowledges the 100 Greater Washington, D.C., companies for their workplace excellence based on survey responses from […]
Britain’s Skyrora Receives Iceland’s Leif Erikson Award for Environmental Efforts
Scottish rocket company, Skyrora, received Iceland’s environmental Leif Erikson Award. This occurred during its recent rocket launch mission in Iceland, where it sent its sub-orbital Skylark Micro to a height of 27km. The company received the Leif Erikson Lunar Prize Award for the its environmental efforts, in particular its innovative project ‘Ecosene’ that converts unrecyclable […]
McQ Wins AFWERX Contract For USAF Base Security + Defense Via Iridium’s SatNet
AFWERX, the innovation program of the United States Air Force, initiated a Base of the Future Challenge to seek new technologies that greatly enhance the security and defense of Air Force Bases. As the Air Force builds new and restores existing installations, they have the opportunity to examine and improve the existing security and defense […]
L3Harris Selected To Create A Space Reflector Antenna For The Thuraya-4 NGS
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been selected by Airbus Defence and Space to build a space reflector antenna for a next-generation satellite that will provide mobile telecommunication services throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Central Asia. The geostationary satellite, owned and to be operated by Yahsat/Thuraya, will carry an L-band payload that will enable high-speed […]