Australian startup, Spiral Blue, has announced today it will partner with Polish satellite manufacturer SatRevolution to host Spiral Blue’s Space Edge Zero (SEZ) computers onboard 2 satellites, STORK-4 and STORK-5. SEZ hardware has arrived in Poland and is currently undergoing final integration with these satellites, ahead of a launch no earlier than June 2021 onboard […]
Constellation
UPDATE: Four Axelspace GRUS Attain Orbit
GRUS-1B, 1C, 1D, 1E are 100 kg smallsats built for optical EO and constitute Axelspace’s “AxelGlobe” platform were successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on March 22, 2021 at 15:07 JST (06:07 UTC). The company is currently conducting commissioning procedures to verify that all instruments and components onboard the satellites are working as expected. This is the second launch for AxelGlobe after the successful deployment of […]
USSF’s SBIRS GEO-5 Satellite Ships To Cape Canaveral AFS
The U.S. Space Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center successfully delivered the fifth Space Based Infrared System satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) to the processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The satellite traveled across the country from the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Center satellite integration facility in Sunnyvale, California via a C-5M Super Galaxy […]
Pixxel To Build World’s Highest Resolution Hyperspectral Satellite Array
“We are very excited to finally speak about what we are building at Pixxel. Our new funding enables us to build a health monitor for the planet through the world’s most advanced hyperspectral small-satellites… Pixxel, India’s first private Earth imaging company, said it has closed its $7.3 million seed round with new capital from Omnivore and Techstars […]
Sateliot And Open Cosmos Ready To Launch Their First Smallsat In Preparation Of A Constellation
Sateliot, the satellite telecommunications operator, is finalizing with Open Cosmos, the company that operates end-to-end space missions, the launch of its first smallsat, which is scheduled for the morning of March 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Open Cosmos is the design creator and manufacturer of this first smallsat of what will eventually total […]
Thales Alenia Space Now Has A Major Role To Play With ESA’s 2nd Generation Galileo Constellation
Thales Alenia Space recently signed a 772 million euros contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), acting in the name and on behalf of the European Union represented by the European Commission, to provide six satellites that will be part of the 2nd Generation of Galileo constellation. The first satellites of this second generation will […]
ClimaCell Building A Weather Constellation
ClimaCell, a leading weather intelligence platform, has announced Operation Tomorrow Space. To improve global forecasting technology and capabilities, ClimaCell has designed proprietary, radar-equipped smallsats and will start launching dozens of them into space over the coming years. ClimaCell’s radar-equipped smallsat constellation represents a first in the history of the weather industry. While weather-focused satellites have […]
Near Space Launch and Virginia STEM Students Ready to Send Second Constellation of 30 Small Sats
Co-founder of TSL and Co-Inventor of the CubeSat, Bob Twiggs, stated, “To me, this (First ThinSat launch) was the most exciting day of my career.” Corona or no corona virus, the Virginia middle and high school STEM programs are busy and getting ready to launch a second constellation of 30 small sats on February 20. […]
SpaceX Sights Set For South Africa + UPDATE1: Omnispace Hybrid Mobile Network Afoot
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system has added South Africa as a target market. South Africa’s media and telecoms regulator ICASA (Independent Communication Authority of South Africa) confirming that SpaceX is in discussion with the regulator about obtaining a license to operate in the country. To operate in South Africa and to provide its satellite-based internet […]
Dragonfly Aerospace’s Imagers To Pixxel For EO Satellite Constellation
Dragonfly Aerospace has signed a contract for the development and delivery of high resolution electro-optical imagers for Pixxel’s planned satellite constellation. The constellation will follow the upcoming launch of Pixxel’s first satellite ‘Anand’, which also happens to be India’s first private Earth imaging satellite. The planned constellation of satellites will provide global coverage every 24 […]