With grain exports from the Ukraine under reported dire and continued threat from Russian attacks on the country, pictured here are a pair of SkySat images that were captured by Planet on May 31st and June 7th. The first image shows the Nika-Tera grain storage terminal in the port of Mykolayiv, Ukraine, before Russia reportedly […]
Constellation
Redwire is awarded a contract to manufacture Link-16 antennas for a national security LEO constellation
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been contracted to deliver 42 high gain antennas for an undisclosed national security customer for an LEO satellite constellation with significant follow-on potential. Scheduled to be delivered within the next 18 months, the antennas will enable beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) communications for the warfighter using a secured tactical network. Earlier this […]
Gilat receives million$ with a follow-on order for LEO constellation gateways support
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT) has received a more than $8 million dollar follow-on order for support of gateways of a LEO constellation. Gilat’s subsidiary, Wavestream, was selected as the sole provider to supply Gateway Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) to a leading satellite operator to support the LEO constellation gateways. The […]
GHGSat adds 3 more satellites to their methane emissions monitoring constellation with ADD optical sensors aboard
GHGSat launched three, new, ABB-built optical sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard the Transporter-5 mission late last month, doubling the capacity to monitor methane gas emissions. With ABB’s technology, the GHGSat team is able to precisely locate and measure methane emissions from any given industrial […]
China launches nine COMSATS to orbit
On Thursday, June 2nd, China launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket (also known as also known as the Chang Zheng 2C) that carried a payload of nine commercial satellites to orbit. This was the Geely-01 constellation and lifted off at 12:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. […]
Synspective + Addvalue form partnership + plan to strengthen EO services with fast customer response
Synspective Inc. and Addvalue Innovation are partnering to enable urgent delivery of high-quality imagery in challenging disaster environments. The collaboration will leverage Addvalue’s Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS™) implemented over the Inmarsat’s ELERA satellite network. Synspective’s high-frequency, high-resolution SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites provide data analytics and solution services that are especially effective for disaster […]
Open Cosmos signs contract with ESA to develop the smallsat NanoMagSat constellation concept
Open Cosmos has announced their latest contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the NanoMagSat mission concept. The NanoMagSat mission concept consist of a smallsat constellation to monitor the Earth’s magnetic field and ionospheric environment with an innovative revisiting time strategy and combination of instruments (one self-calibrated absolute scalar/vector magnetometer combined with star trackers […]
UPDATE: The Vigoride OTV’s 1st Demo Flight Finds Momentus Working On Clearing Anomalies
Momentus Inc. has a status update regarding the company’s first demo mission. Momentus has established two-way contact with the Vigoride Orbital Transfer Vehicle and, as is often the case with a new spacecraft, there have been some initial anomalies. The company is using an unplanned frequency as they work through this ‘challenge’ and are applying […]
ICEYE Launches 5 New SAR Smallsats Via The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission
ICEYE has successfully launched five new SAR satellites — all spacecraft were launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 smallsat rideshare mission via EXOLAUNCH from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Communication has successfully been established with each spacecraft. ICEYE and ICEYE US have now deployed 21 satellites since 2018, including commercial and dedicated customer missions. ICEYE’s satellite constellation is […]
OHB + ESA Sign Rider-Contract For The 2nd Copernicus CO2M EO Development Phase
The CO2M mission of the European Earth Observation Program, Copernicus aims to specifically measure how much climate-changing carbon dioxide is actually released into the atmosphere by human activities. OHB System AG, a subsidiary of the space and technology group OHB SE, was awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) two years ago for […]