New Zealand’s space-flight systems company Zenno Astronautics (Zenno) has completed the integration of the world’s first superconducting magnetic torquer for fuel-free spacecraft attitude control. The Z01™ was integrated inside D-Orbit’s ION Satellite […]
Electromagnetic
Lockheed Martin’s first LM 400 multi-mission space vehicle passes a milestone
The first Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) LM 400, a versatile, mid-sized satellite that can be adapted for military, civil or commercial uses, has successfully completed Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility testing. This trial is crucial to […]
Euroconsult’s report acknowledges both challenges and potential of optical communications for space applications
A new first-edition report from Euroconsult provides a full analysis of the exciting and rapidly developing global market for optical communications terminals driven by NGSO broadband constellations with the need […]
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) opens a new high-powered microwave laboratory
U.S. Air Force and community leaders cut the ribbon for the new High-Power Electromagnetic Effects and Modeling, or HPEM, Facility at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate during […]
Europe’s new weather satellite makes waves
The Meteosat Third Generation satellite system is set to revolutionize weather forecasting and enable more precise monitoring of the changing atmosphere, land and oceans. The first Meteosat Third Generation Imager, […]
Israel’s First Space Telescope To Be Developed + Built By Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESLT, TASE: ESLT) (“Elbit Systems”) has been awarded awarded a contract valued at approximately $16 million to supply a space telescope to the Weizmann Institute of […]
Ball Aerospace’s Land Imaging Instrument Aboard The Successful Launch of Landsat 9
The Ball Aerospace-built Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) instrument successfully launched aboard Landsat 9, the latest in a series of joint missions between NASA and the United States Geological Society […]