“The GHGSat microsatellites are able to detect and measure methane emissions from sources on the Earth’s surface that are 100 times smaller than those identified by other satellites.” Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and GHGSat Inc. announced the successful completion of laboratory testing on the GHGSat-C3, C4, and C5 microsatellites at SFL’s facility in Toronto. Canadian […]
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New MLA Signed By Satellogic For Their Next 68 Satellites To Be Launched By SpaceX
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) has signed a new Multiple Launch Agreement (“MLA”) with SpaceX and has reserved launch capacity for the company’s next 68 satellites. This new MLA follows the current MLA covering 2022 launches and confirms that SpaceX continues to be Satellogic’s preferred vendor for rideshare missions, meeting the capacity demands of Satellogic’s constellation […]
SES + ESA To Enable GovSatCom With MEO Constellation
SES has released information that the company’s non-geostationary MEO satellite network will now be part of the GovSatCom-grade satellite communications platform that it has developed with the co-funding by ESA. SES’s O3b high-throughput, low-latency and secure communications features is ideal for data-intensive applications sought by the European governments, including Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) operations, […]
AST SpaceMobile Receives An FCC Experimental License For BlueWalker 3 Satellite Testing
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has received an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting its U.S.-based testing of the BlueWalker 3 satellite. The license covers BlueWalker 3 space-to-ground testing in the United States using 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), low-band, cellular frequencies and Q/V-band frequencies, subject to certain restrictions. The authorization comes […]
Spire Global’s New ‘Weather Insights’ Helps The Maritime Industry With Smooth Sailing
Spire collects global weather data through its fully-deployed constellation of over 100 satellites, reaching remote areas such as the open oceans that have traditionally been difficult to observe. Spire Global, Inc , provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, announced the addition of Weather Insights and Weather by Route solutions to its portfolio. These solutions […]
Launched From Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-40 Are 53 Additional SpaceX Starlink Satellites
On Friday, April 29, at 5:27 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the sixth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, […]
A New RF Reconnaissance From Space Offering From Kleos Space — Mission-as-a-Service
Kleos Space (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) has announced that the company is diversifying their business model to include Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) capability, providing customers with exclusive access to Kleos’ dedicated, on-orbit, radio frequency reconnaissance satellite clusters for fixed periods of time and capacity. Each Mission-as-a-Service contract will be tailored to suit the customer requirements and needs […]
Nex-Gen Satellite Announced By Planet
Another exciting day at Planet as the company unveils details about their nex-gen satellite constellation, Pelican, designed to efficiently capture brief and rapidly changing events as they unfold. The Pelican constellation was designed in-house and is expected to be built at the firm’s manufacturing facility in San Francisco. The advancements of this brand new constellation […]
Orbital Insight + Satellogic Share Their Expertise — Bringing Sat Imagery + FMV To Platform + More
Orbital Insight has partnered with Satellogic (NASDAQ: SATL) and the company’s will integrate the latter’s high-frequency, high-resolution collections of satellite imagery and full-motion video (FMV) into the Orbital Insight platform and offer customers better access to high quality data, improve the revisit rate and reduce the cost of running analytics. Satellogic is a vertically integrated […]
Microsoft, SES + Nokia Demo Satellite + 5G Integration For Australian Defence
As Defence organizations continue to respond to new threats and changing strategic circumstances, it’s crucial that they have access to the best possible technology for modernized military capabilities and high-performance operations. One of the biggest challenges is the ability to access and share increasingly large volumes of data from remote locations quickly and securely, and […]