To reduce the time, cost and risk of developing spaceflight-qualified systems, designers may start with Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) devices that can later be replaced by their space-qualified, radiation-tolerant equivalent parts available […]
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UPDATE: WORK Microwave Delivers Ka-Band Up- and Downconverters to ESA
WORK Microwave has delivered the first set of Ka-band up- and downconverters to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) European Space Operations Center for deep space antennas. The deep space converters […]
Airbus Qualifies Their 5m Deployable Antenna Reflector
Airbus has successfully qualified Europe’s first five meter, deployable, antenna reflector. The 70 kg deployable reflector will help enable higher resolution from a radar instrument for Earth Observation (EO). With […]
Ball Aerospace Supported The NASA SPHEREx Spacecraft PDR
Ball Aerospace supported the completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx). With PDR complete, […]
Made In Space Makes History With Manufacturing @ ISS + Also Receives Prestigious NASA Award
Redwire recently announced that the company’s Ceramic Manufacturing Module (CMM) successfully manufactured a ceramic part in space for the first time. The commercially developed in-space manufacturing facility successfully operated with […]
New Directional Coupler Introduced by KRYTAR
KRYTAR, Inc. has announced a new Directional Coupler operating in the frequency range of 0.5 to 8.0 GHz offering Nominal Coupling of 30 dB in a compact package. KRYTAR’s new […]
AAC Clyde Space Now Engaged In New Constellation Services with ESA + UK Space Agency
AAC Clyde Space has embarked upon a three year project named xSPANCION with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop an innovative, satellite constellation service, including the manufacture of 10 […]
Kacific Engaged In Development of Kacific2 Satellite
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has started directing resources toward the planning and design of the company’s next satellite, Kacific2. Kacific2 will add capacity to its largest, high-demand markets of […]