Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), has announced that the firm’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Tyvak International SRL, and partners have achieved full, Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Milani spacecraft. A critical component of the Hera planetary defense mission, Milani will be the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first, deep-space smallsat. Milani will also be the first smallsat […]
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CDR for NOAA’s SWFO-L1 spacecraft completed by Ball Aerospace + also building WSF-M satellite for USSF / SSC
Ball Aerospace successfully completed critical design review (CDR) for the NOAA Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft — the company will now proceed with production, integration and testing of the spacecraft. Expected to launch in 2025, SWFO-L1 will collect solar wind data and coronal imagery to meet NOAA’s operational requirements to monitor and forecast […]
USSF + Boeing Complete Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype Critical Design Review
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) and Boeing [NYSE: BA] have completed a critical design review for the Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype (PTS-P), validating Boeing’s technical maturity on the rapid-prototyping program. Boeing’s PTS-P features an on-board processor of the U.S. military’s jam-resistant Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW), providing users in-theater, anti-jam capability with network […]
Lockheed Martin Completes The USSF’s NGG Block 0 Satellite System Level CDR
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the U.S. Space Force (USSF) conducted the system level Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 space program. This marks another significant step toward the first NGG satellite launch in 2025. NGG is the USSF’s new, advanced space-based missile warning […]
Space Micro To Deliver 10 Nanocom SDRs To Lockheed Martin For The SDA’s Tranche 0 Satellite Constellation
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded Space Micro Inc. a contract to deliver ten, Ka-band, Nanocom™ Software Defined Radios (SDR) in support of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 0 satellite constellation — Nanocom recently passed Critical Design Review (CDR) and Space Micro will deliver flight models to Lockheed Martin by the close of this […]
USSF’s Next Gen OPIR Program Completes Block 0 GEO Space Vehicle CDR
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, successfully passed a major milestone, completing its Block 0 Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicle Critical Design Review (CDR) on August 20, 2021. This CDR milestone, the culmination of 34 subsystem and payload reviews, locks the space vehicle technical baseline, a key step […]
USSF’s Next-Gen OPIR, Block 0 GEO Missile Warning Satellites Pass Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s Sensor Payload CDR
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) of their competitive sensor payload design for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared or Next-Gen OPIR, Block 0 GEO missile warning satellites, which are being designed and built by spacecraft prime contractor Lockheed Martin. RI&S is moving forward […]
CDR For Next-Gen OPIR GEO Mission Payload Successfully Completed By Northrop Grumman + Ball Aerospace
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Ball Aerospace have successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) mission payload. The completion of the Next-Gen OPIR subsystems and payload CDR meets aggressive U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) program objectives to ensure national security posture […]
Critical Design Review For The OSAM-1 Mission Successfully Completed by Maxar
Maxar has successfully completed the spacecraft Accommodation Critical Design Review (CDR) for the On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (OSAM-1) mission, a major milestone that paves the way for the team to complete the final mechanical build of the spacecraft. OSAM-1 will refuel a satellite in LEO not designed to be serviced. In doing so, the […]
Kleos Space’s Polar Vigilance Mission Smallsats Complete Hardware CDR
Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1,) a company that offers pace-powered, Radio Frequency Reconnaissance, data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, has now confirmed their second satellite cluster, the Polar Vigilance Mission (KSF1), has successfully completed a hardware critical design review milestone for a launch mid-year onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Satellite developer ISISPACE, conducted the design progress […]