Teams that have already assembled their hardware will have the chance to verify equipment, payloads, experiments, or entire nanosatellites making use of the CubeSat Support Facility in ESEC-Galaxia (Belgium). The ESA Academy announces two new hands-on training opportunities for University CubeSat teams. The call for proposals are open to teams, composed of bachelor, master and PhD students […]
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Precious Payload + IENAI Space Partnership Develop Space Mobility Tech
Precious Payload has announced the first API software integration of their Launch.ctrl product for the space mobility company, IENAI SPACE. IENAI provides end-to-end in-space propulsion solutions, allowing engineers to intuitively design their thrusters using open-access cloud platform, ienai GO. Previously, teams had to painstakingly iterate on the on-board propulsion system requirements and launcher options, since […]
The Orbital Reef Commercial Space Station Achieves A Design Milestone
The Orbital Reef team, led by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin, has successfully completed its Systems Requirements Review (SRR) in just three months. The SRR is an important program milestone and marks the baselining of the requirements for the mission and design of Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station […]
Slingshot Aerospace Receives Million$$ Contract From USSF’s Space Systems Command
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. has been awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract from the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) with strategic support from SpaceWERX. The contract will facilitate delivery of two key Slingshot Aerospace products: the company’s Digital Space Twin, and the deployment of the Slingshot Laboratory training product for USSF. Funding was […]
Additional Growth For Fleet Space Technologies + Australian Government Awards Million$$
Fleet Space Technologies has announced that the Australian Government has committed $20 million to the development of the Space Manufacturing Hub in Adelaide, South Australia. This adds to funds already committed by The Government of South Australia (A$20 million) and a consortium of leading space, aerospace and advanced air mobility companies including Fleet, Q-CTRL, AtSpace […]