In a one-week period, Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two, 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program: one to measure Atmospheric Composition (ACX) and one to measure Ocean Color (OCX). Overall, three 20-month studies have been awarded to Ball for […]
Contracts
InnoFlight’s NexGen Flight CPU selected by LeoStella for their smallsats
LeoStella has selected InnoFlight for the development and delivery of their next-generation Flight Computer Processing Unit (FCPU) and Payload Interface Electronics (PIE) — the FCPU is used as the Command and Data Handling (C&DH) processor of LeoStella’s spacecraft, where the PIE is the processor in support of the payload. The FCPU is based on InnoFlight’s […]
Million€ to AAC Clyde Space to develop innovative power system for smallsats
AAC Clyde Space has been awarded funding through the European Space Agency’s ARTES Core Competitiveness program that helps European and Canadian industry to develop innovative SATCOM technology, products and systems. The award will enable AAC Clyde Space to further develop the company’s Starbuck Mini power system to address the needs of future constellations. The total […]
Raytheon I&S to upgrade Australian border surveillance aircraft with advanced radar
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, will equip Australian border surveillance aircraft with its latest SeaVue Multi-Role radar under a contract with Cobham Special Mission. Under the contract, RI&S will upgrade Cobham’s fleet of Dash 8 fixed-wing aircraft to the most advanced version of its SeaVue multi-domain surveillance radar in support of Australian […]
Rocket Lab to supply solar power for the USSF’s new missile warning satellites
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced that the company’s high-efficiency, radiation-hardened, Coverglass Interconnected solar Cell (CIC) assemblies will power the three Lockheed Martin Next Gen OPIR GEO (NGG) satellites for the United States Space Force (USSF). The NGG program will deliver resilient global missile warning capabilities to counter emerging missile and counter-space threats […]
Severe weather + climate monitoring instrumented + spacecraft studies to be initiated by Lockheed Martin for NOAA
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] was selected by the NASA to further refine concepts for a critical instrument and the spacecraft bus for the NOAA’s GeoXO weather satellites, the next generation after the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R (GOES-R) series. These future satellites will ultimately help save lives by enabling even more accurate weather forecasting […]
Viasat selected by ESA to conduct multi-layered SATCOM study
Viasat UK Ltd., a subsidiary of global communications company Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a multi-layered SATCOM study focused on evaluating the use cases, market segments and technical aspects of future systems that will be comprised of networks that span multiple orbital types, including GEO, MEO, […]
Future Axiom commercial space station to incorporate L3Harris advanced comms link
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) will provide a critical communications radio to Axiom Space for that firm’s planned commercial space station — the S-band radio will mirror the functionality that exists on the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA’s Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles. The L3Harris C/TT 520 S-band radio will serve as the common data link […]
SES applying 03b mPOWER connectivity to a leading cruise lines fleet
SES will be providing high-speed, satellite-based, connectivity services to the newest landmark ship of a leading family cruise line — the cruise line’s existing fleet will also transition its connectivity to SES’s second-generation MEO system — O3b mPOWER— alongside installing the service onto the firm’s new build program. The high-performance connectivity service onboard will first […]
NASA prepares for Space Launch System (SLS) rocket services contract
As NASA prepares for the first integrated flight test of the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon this summer as part of Artemis, the agency is moving toward a services contract model for long-term, SLS hardware production and operations to reduce costs. In a pre-solicitation notice for the Exploration Production and Operations […]