Ball Aerospace has completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) next-generation operational environmental satellite system. The company also finalized environmental testing […]
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Terran Orbital delivers 10 satellite buses to prime Lockheed Martin for SDA Tranche 0 integration
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has delivered the final ten satellite buses to prime contractor Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer. The delivery […]
INNOSPACE schedules their 1st suborbital rocket for smallsats test flight
INNOSPACE, a South Korean, private, spaceflight startup for smallsat launch vehicles, set the launch window from December 14 to December 21 (Brasilia Time, BRT) as the first rocket engine test […]
Forrester’s Digest: Sirius XM order satellites from Maxar Technologies
North American pay-radio operator SiriusXM has ordered two powerful geostationary satellites to be built by Maxar Technologies. The new craft (SXM-11 and SXM-12) now join two other satellites (SXM-9 and […]
NASA awards contracts to assess Near-Space communication capabilities
NASA has selected two companies – Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia. These companies will develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communications […]
Vestigo Aerospace closes seed funding round for their satellite dragsail technology
Vestigo Aerospace has closed a seed funding round with an investment of $375,000 from Manhattan West — NASA will provide a 1:1 match of Manhattan West’s investment through a Small […]
UPDATE 1: Blue Origin’s NS-22 crewed mission successfully lifts off from West Texas
Blue Origin has successfully completed the firm’s sixth, human spaceflight and the 22nd flight for the New Shepard program. The crew achieved three historic firsts: Sara Sabry became the first […]
The next USSF Chief of Space Operations has been nominated
If confirmed by the Senate, Lieutenant General B. Chance Saltzman will become the service’s highest ranking officer and the second Chief of Space Operations in the young service’s history. Saltzman […]
ThrustMe wins an ESA GSTP contract to develop + qualify an electric propulsion system
ThrustMe has been awarded an ESA GSTP contract to develop and qualify the electric propulsion system NPT30-I2-1.5U. ThrustMe technology will integrate the GomSpace lead technology demonstration GOMX-5 mission — the […]
Gilat Reports Full Year 2021 Results
Petah Tikva, Israel – February 15, 2022 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, today reported its results for […]