Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a $36 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a platform-agnostic, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS), SATCOM […]
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Pale Blue to supply water based propulsion systems
Pale Blue has been awarded a new contract with Yonsei University in South Korea to provide the Resistojet (0.5U sized water vapor) propulsion system for a pair of 6U satellites. […]
Libre Space Foundation’s 2 Million Euros PHASMA project with ESA for development of three open-source CubeSats
Libre Space Foundation is announcing another major project involving undertaking the PHASMA project regarding the design and development of three open-source CubeSats. The three CubeSats are tasked to oversee the […]
Canada’s Space Agency selects Canadian student teams who build and launch their own small satellites
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded nine grants representing $3.15 million under the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS) to Canadian post-secondary institutions to advance space science and technology while training the […]
Exolaunch’s 32 customer satellites successfully gain their orbits with the Transporter-8 mission
Exolaunch integrated 32 customer satellites with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as all reached their orbits following the Transporter-8 mission liftoff from Vandenberg SFB — Exolaunch has now managed 300 satellite launches. […]
UPDATE: A ‘Go’ for Rocket Lab — NASA’s TROPICS constellation is launched to orbit for storm monitoring
UPDATE: Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a launch and space systems company, successfully launched the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites […]
Rocket Lab’s May 25 launch is Coming to a Storm Near You with storm monitoring satellites for NASA’s TROPICS constellation
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a launch and space systems company, is preparing for the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a […]
New NASA mission to study ice clouds + Earth’s dynamic atmosphere
NASA has initiated a new mission to help humanity better understand Earth’s dynamic atmosphere – specifically, ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. The PolSIR […]
Students successfully conclude the Baseline Design Review of their CubeSats
Last April, students from six CubeSats Teams successfully concluded the Baseline Design Review of their CubeSats as part of ESA Academy‘s new Fly Your Satellite! (FYS!) Design Booster Program — […]
Aviosonic + HPS join forces to fight space debris
Aviosonic Space Tech‘s patented DeCAS (Debris Collision Alert System) for tracking and re-entry footprint prediction extends Europe´s satellite deorbit system and this sail system — ADEO — is already a […]