L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received a contract from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, to build eight infrared payloads for the SDA’s Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program. The FOO […]
Infrared
Lynred wins Sentinel-2 NG mission pre-development contract to design advanced multispectral infrared detector
Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, today announces its selection, in an open bidding process, to develop an advanced multispectral […]
ESA’s Ariel mission moves to construction phase
The preliminary spacecraft design of ESA’s future exoplanet mission Ariel received approval from the ESA review board and passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with flying colours. This concludes the […]
Rhodes wildfire in Greece forces thousands to flee
Wildfires burning on the Greek island of Rhodes have forced the evacuation of thousands of people as flames have spread from the island’s mountainous region to the coast. The Copernicus […]
CesiumAstro’s active phased array technology is enlisted by Raytheon Technologies for 7 space vehicles supporting SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer
CesiumAstro , provider of active phased array communications technology for space and airborne systems, was selected by Raytheon Technologies to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) RF communications […]
Northrop Grumman-built Common Infrared Countermeasure Systems approved by U.S. Army for early fielding
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) system has achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC). With IOC, the U.S. Army demonstrated the ability to field, employ and maintain CIRCM […]
Space Systems Command’s EWS tech demo smallsat launched by SpaceX
Space Systems Command successfully launched the organization’s Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) cubesat technical demonstration onboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission at 9:56 a.m. (Eastern, 6:56 a.m. Pacific) from Cape Canaveral […]
Terran Orbital demonstrates record-breaking 1.4 terabyte single-pass optical downlink for NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 Satellite
Terran Orbital Corporation, a provider of satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced its contribution to the successful demonstration of a record-breaking 1.4-terabytes of data delivered from […]
LunIR launches and joins CAPSTONE as second lunar satellite this year
Terran Orbital Corporation a provider of satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the successful launch of LunIR. The Moon-mapping satellite is the second Terran Orbital-developed lunar […]
Mynaric’s optical communications terminals will provide Northrop Grumman with part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 tracking layer program
Mynaric, provider of industrialized, cost-effective and scalable laser communications products, announced it will provide Northrop Grumman with optical communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency’s […]