ICEYE has closed a $65 million extension of the company’s earlier growth funding round of $93 million that was announced in April 2024. The funding round extension included participation from […]
Constellation
BlueHalo selected by NGA for assessments of commercially acquired GEOINT data
BlueHalo has been selected as one of 10 vendors to provide unclassified commercial GEOINT-derived computer vision and analytic service capabilities for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite […]
Space Force’s first Silent Barker satellites to go live in early 2025
The Space Force developed and launched Silent Barker jointly with the National Reconnaissance Office. The spacecraft’s mission is largely classified, but the service has said its role is to track […]
L3Harris’ Design Review for new Tranche 2 Missile Tracking Satellites is complete ahead of schedule
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has successfully completed Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the development of 18 space vehicles for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program. The […]
Mechanical issue delays ESA’s Vega-C’s launch of Sentinel-1C to Thursday
Update: launch postponed to Thursday 5 December 2024. Due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry, the launch chronology has been stopped. The earliest targeted launch […]
ArkEdge Space selected by JAXA to develop lunar navigation system
ArkEdge Space Inc. has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) under its Space Strategy Fund to lead the development of advanced lunar navigation technology. The company will […]
Forrester’s Digest: China outlines Beidou constellation
China already has a total of 44 GPS satellites on-orbit (at the end of 2023), known as the Beidou constellation. The country’s China Satellite Navigation System Management Office (CNSO) has […]
SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Tuesday including Direct to Cell
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is ready to launch Starlink Group 9-14 smallsats on Tuesday December 3 at 4:29 PM – 8:29 PM PST from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Base, California. […]
China set to build next-generation BeiDou system
China is planning to develop its next-generation BeiDou system, which will be technologically more advanced and functionally more powerful, and offer higher quality services. Three experimental satellites of this navigation […]
Eseye + Sateliot join forces for global IoT via seamless satellite-terrestrial integration
Eseye has partnered with Sateliot to deliver reliable and global 5G from space IoT solutions using advanced LPWAN satellite technology. The partnership aims to enable seamless and ubiquitous global connectivity […]