In-Orbit Servicing & Orbital Operations

Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd. + Kongsberg Discovery AS have signed a significant co-operation agreement. The companies signed their on Monday, June 2nd, during EXPO in Osaka, Japan—the purpose is to bring the companies together to co-develop next-generation, inertial technology. Gyro ...

New Zealand-based (but Nasdaq-listed) Rocket Lab has confirmed that it intends attacking the Direct-to-Consumer market currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its Starlink broadband system. Rocket Lab, founded by Sir Peter Beck, has recently unveiled its ‘Flatellite’ satellite, which ...

Credit: OHB The Italian government has approved Phase 2 of a feasibility study exploring the possibility of the country developing an 100-satellite constellation. While few details have been announced, initial reports indicate that the constellation will support communications and be ...

The Satellite Applications Catapult and The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) UK Ltd initiated discussions for collaboration and the linking of their two robotics facilities –– one in Westcott, UK, and the other in El Segundo, California, USA. The integration of these ...

While the planet now has global low Earth orbiting coverage from Elon Musk’s Starlink, China is quietly getting on with its own rival scheme, in the shape of its Qianfan (Thousand Sails) satellite constellation project. Genesat (Gesi Aerospace), the project’s ...

Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) and Solstar Space Company(“Solstar”) earlier this month signed a strategic partnership agreement and will collaborate on creating new ways of operating in space by enabling customers to have on-demand connectivity with their systems in space. This ...

The sea-based landing platform for Neutron rockets returning to Earth will support greater space access for national security missions, civil space exploration, and commercial satellite constellation deployments. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global provider in launch services and ...

Almagest Space Corporation has announced the successful launch and deployment of ELEVATION-1, a demonstration satellite carrying the world’s first E-band communications payload with the foundational technology for Almagest to develop innovative, high performance, bulk data solutions. ELEVATION-1 was launched, with ...

On a beautiful Tuesday, January 14, California morning, at 11:09 a.m. PT, with blue skies and the ocean and beach in the background SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-12 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at ...

Digantara has announced the launch of the company's SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking), inaugural mission that is dedicated to space surveillance and was launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission—SCOT aims to enhance space safety, optimize traffic management, and bolster national ...

Photo of Pale Blue's water ion thruster Pale Blue Inc. (Pale Blue) will demonstrate the world-first, 1U+, Water Ion Thruster (PBI) on D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier twice during 2025. By adding space heritage multiple times, Pale Blue will diversify its ...

Eutelsat experienced a 48-hour outage on its OneWeb Low Orbit service, beginning on December 31st 2024. In a company statement, Eutelsat outlined the reason for the outage. “The root cause was identified as a software issue within the ground segment,” ...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has successfully completed Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the development of 18 space vehicles for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program. The PDR confirms the L3Harris space vehicles, which include technology designed ...

MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has been named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers of 2025 — this industry recognition highlights MDA Space as an exceptional employer that is raising the bar with market leading people programs and forward-thinking workplace policies ...

The United States Navy has contracted Rivada to develop and deliver Virtual Network Operator (VNO) capabilities via the company’s Outernet constellation. The Rivada Outernet is a next-generation LEO satellite constellation. When fully deployed, it will provide gigabit speeds to any ...

ArkEdge Space 6U Satellites SeriesCompact, with dimensions of 10cm x 20cm x 30cm, these microsatellites are making strong strides in a variety of mission portfolios, ranging from Earth-based constellations, covering observation, navigation, and communication for both Earth and lunar missions, ...

SpacePNT SA has completed the on-orbit validation tests of the company's NaviLEOTM spaceborne GNSS receiver product platform that is designed to deliver breakthrough dm-level positioning and ns timing accuracy in LEO as well as the highest signal reception sensitivity for ...

After completing testing, the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload resides in the cryogenic thermal vacuum chamber at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology in Washington, D.C. Oct. 8, 2024. Once on-orbit, the RSGS payload ...

Image courtesy of the company. Astranis has been selected as a prime contractor for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command’s (SSC) new Resilient GPS (R-GPS) program — Astranis is one of four awarded an agreement to produce design ...

HawkEye 360 has announced the planned decommissioning of the firm's pioneering Cluster 1 Pathfinder satellites by the end of 2024 — this decommissioning marks the conclusion of the first-generation satellite cluster that transformed the commercial RF industry and laid the ...