With its Halcyon propulsion systems playing pivotal roles in key military and commercial space missions this year, Benchmark Space Systems announced it has tripled its team from 30 to 83 […]
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Viasat contracts Intellian for maritime Ka-band user terminals
Viasat Inc., has issued a contract to Intellian for that firm to design and supply an exclusive, bespoke range of Ka-band user terminals Viasat’s Maritime connectivity solution. In addition to […]
MMA Design’s HaWK solar arrays to empower NASA’s SunRISE Mission
The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) unveiled the first of a fleet of smallsats in Logan, Utah, earlier this year in support of NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission […]
NASA awards commercial smallsat data acquisition agreement to GeoOptics
NASA has selected GeoOptics Inc. of Pasadena, California, to provide commercial small constellation satellite data products that may augment NASA-collected data in the future. This is a fixed-price, blanket purchase […]
Space Flight Laboratory awarded HawkEye 360 contract for RF Geolocation smallsat builds
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been contracted to support development of Clusters 7 through 11 in the HawkEye 360 radio frequency (RF) geolocation smallsat constellation. Created with New Space companies […]
Canadensys Aerospace obtains a CAmillion$$ contract for 1st Canadian lunar rover
The Honorable François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced a $43 million contract to Canadensys Aerospace Corporation (Canadensys) and the firm’s industrial and academic partners to […]
General Atomics + SES + Hughes Network Systems successfully demo multi-orbit SATCOM for MQ-9B RPA
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), SES and Hughes Network Systems (HUGHES) have successfully demo’d multi-orbit SATCOM using a GA-ASI-supplied MQ-9B SkyGuardian® Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). The demonstration occurred on […]
NASA laser retroreflector array delivered to ESA for Lunar Pathfinder satellite navigation + Lunar Pathfinder info
A NASA retroreflector array has been delivered to the European Space Agency (ESA) that will allow the Lunar Pathfinder mission to be pinpointed by laser ranging stations back on Earth […]
An Advanced Space CAPSTONE milestone: lunar orbit achieved
Advanced Space has announced that the big day has come and CAPSTONE is at the Moon — CAPSTONE just completed its initial insertion into the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). […]
SpaceWERX awards 124 Orbital Prime contracts
Recently, the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime program awarded 124 Phase 1 contracts from June 15 to September 22, 2022, each with a five-month term valued at $250,000. Orbital Prime, which is […]