GomSpace has signed a contract with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The contract covers the first phase of a project to develop a 16U cubesat. The contract value is 4.7 […]
CubeSat
Lunasonde to test subsurface mineral detection from orbit
Lunasonde recently announced the launch timeline for the company’s third satellite to LEO — the San Xavier satellite — will fly on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-11 via launch provider Exolaunch. […]
Vector Space Biosciences reveals smallsat drug repurposing platform using data from space
Vector Space Biosciences, Inc., in collaboration with Oracle and NVIDIA, has a new smallsat launch platform designed for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The platform is powered by… 1) A biosciences […]
UPDATE: Lift-off for EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first ever satellite
UPDATE: Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. […]
SpaceX’s Friday Korea 425 mission launch includes top secret reconnaissance smallsats for APA
SpaceX is targeting Friday, December 1 at 10:19 a.m. PT for a Falcon 9 launch of the Korea 425 mission to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at […]
Spire is ESA’s newest member in Third Party Mission to promote radio frequency monitoring
The global company Spire, which specializes in using continuous global monitoring to track aircraft, ships and weather patterns using a large constellation of CubeSats, is now an ESA Third Party […]
Launch of Ireland’s 1st satellite is upcoming…
Watch the live launch broadcast of Ireland’s first satellite — EIRSAT-1 — on ESA Web TV Channel 2 and ESA YouTube, currently scheduled for November 29th. Coverage of this historic […]
Unlocking PRETTY smallsat navigation for Earth data
Earth is being continuously bathed in radio signals from satellite navigation (satnav) satellites, which are useful for far more than navigation. Dedicated space missions acquire these signal reflections to collect […]
Open Cosmos’ MANTIS satellite prepped for upcoming launch
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced plans for the launch of the MANTIS satellite aboard the upcoming SpaceX Transporter-9 mission — this mission was arranged jointly […]
AAC Clyde Space receives satellite order
AAC Clyde Space has won a GBP 0.902 million (approx. SEK 12.1 million) order for a 3U satellite that is scheduled for delivery in Q4 2024. The satellite will be […]