Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has announced that the company’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite has completed bus commissioning with all health and status checkouts nominal. Terran Orbital designed […]
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D-Orbit signs launch + deployment contract with Kepler Communications
D-Orbit has signed a launch and deployment contract with Kepler Communications that covers the launch of two, 6U, telecommunications smallsats. The satellites will be boarded inside the ION Satellite Carrier […]
Turion Space selects Exolaunch to provide launch services for the DROID smallsat
Turion Space has selected Exolaunch to provide launch services for the company’s first DROID spacecraft aboard a SpaceX, Falcon 9, Transporter rideshare mission. The launch is planned for early 2023 […]
Xplore completes satellite testing of Microsoft Azure Orbital
Xplore Inc., providing Space as a Service®, completed a satellite testing initiative using Microsoft Azure Orbital to conduct satellite operations for the NOAA-18 satellite. Xplore is operating over a dozen […]
BlueHalo awarded million$$ AFRL contract for Optical Laser Communications Flight Terminals + Ground Station
BlueHalo has been awarded a contract to deliver a pair of optical laser communications proto-flight terminals and a ground station to demonstrate on-orbit processing of satellite positioning and timing for […]
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 […]
NanoAvionics to build two smallsats for New Zealand’s Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute
Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute (TPA-SI) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has tasked NanoAvionics to build two nanosatellite platforms, designed in partnership to support educational and technology demonstration […]
UPDATE: The Vigoride OTV’s 1st Demo Flight Finds Momentus Working On Clearing Anomalies
Momentus Inc. has a status update regarding the company’s first demo mission. Momentus has established two-way contact with the Vigoride Orbital Transfer Vehicle and, as is often the case with […]
NanoAvionics Alpha Smallsat Demo To Be Powered By Gama Solar Sails
NanoAvionics has been contracted by Gama for a demonstration of Gama’s solar sails propulsion system in LEO. Under the mission agreement, NanoAvionics will provide its 6U smallsat bus, payload integration […]
First Structural Metal Cutting In Space Demo By Nanoracks + Maxar Will Be Aboard The SpaceX Transporter 5 Rideshare Mission
Voyager and Nanoracks have announced that the first Outpost demonstration mission (Outpost Mars Demo-1) is expected to launch this month aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare flight. This mission is part […]