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Sidus Spaces’ LizzieSat Continues Development as NASA conducts Phase 1 Safety Review

“The characterization of hazards and the development of hazard reports and mitigation strategies is a key step in the process of flying any payload onboard the International Space Station,” Sidus Space, Inc. conducted their LizzieSat Phase 1 Safety Review with NASA on June 2, 2022 as it continues development. Sidus Space is a Space-as-a-Service company […]

Comtech Telecommunications Names A New Chief Operating Officer

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has hired defense and communications industry veteran Maria Hedden as the firm’s new Chief Operating Officer (“COO”). Hedden’s expertise is built on a storied career that includes more than 20 years of executive P&L management experience focusing on improving business performance. She has worked with some of the largest names […]

Mission Microwave Ka-Band SSPAs To Be Implemented In SES O3b mPOWER Gateways

Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC., has confirmed the initial production orders for high power SSPAs in support of SES O3b mPOWER gateways — the order follows nearly three years of work between the companies to implement this forward-looking technology into the O3b mPOWER system. SES and Mission Microwave shared their vision of replacing classic Traveling Wave […]

Airbus Passes Milestone As Galileo 2nd Generation Satellites Ready To Navigate Into The Future

Airbus has passed an important milestone by successfully completing the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its system concept for the second generation Galileo navigation satellites. During this important milestone, Airbus’ proposed preliminary design and the customer’s system requirements have been fully reviewed and agreed. This paves the way for further verification, acceptance and qualification at equipment and module level. […]

Forrester’s Digest: OneWeb | LEO Comms | New Scottish Spaceport | Telesat | Turning Off Russian Transponders

OneWeb Satellite Construction Could Remain In Florida When the UK made its $500 million investment in the – then bankrupt – OneWeb satellite constellation, much was made of the prospects for production of the actual satellites, with UK officials talking optimistically about satellites being built in the UK. Alok Sharma, then business secretary in the […]

LeoStella LEO-100 Smallsat Buses Ordered By Loft Orbital Solutions

Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc. and LeoStella, Inc. have extended their production agreement to secure multiple additional LEO-100 buses from LeoStella. These satellite buses are the latest in a series Loft Orbital has secured from LeoStella. The satellites are based on LeoStella’s existing product line of ESPA-class buses. LeoStella’s active production line of commercial buses creates an opportunity […]

SENER in Poland Contracted By Airbus For OneSat Space Mechanisms

SENER in Poland, a company of SENER Aeroespacial, will manufacture, assemble and test the ejection mechanism for Airbus’ fully commercial OneSat mission. Under the contract with Airbus, SENER in Poland will manufacture, assemble and test the following mechanism models: DM (the development model), QM (the qualification model) and then the flight models (FM). The Ejection […]

mu Space’s Reveal On Tech Day A $4 Million Ultra Fast Internet Satellite

Aerospace manufacturer and satellite internet service provider mu Space Corp, recently announced plans to manufacture up to 200 of its revolutionary MU-B200 satellites that are capable of providing ultra-fast 5Gbps internet speeds to remote locations. With a price tag of US$4 million, less than half that of similar technology currently on the market, the MU-B200 […]