Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Ascending Node Technologies (ANT) has unveiled the company's Spaceline® constellation design tool that enables startups and established operators to collectively plot, create, and simulate systems tailormade to their mission plans and operations. This first-of-its-kind, collaborative design tool allows project engineers ...

NearSpace Launch, Inc. (NSL) has gained a major milestone: over 1,000 systems and subsystems have been successfully deployed on-orbit. Since the company's founding in 2014, NSL has grown from a visionary startup into a trusted spaceflight provider, delivering cutting-edge flight-proven ...

This week, Dawn Aerospace had the official kick-off of the LEO2VLEO project, a European Defence Agency-backed program to develop the continent’s first maneuverable military satellite constellation operating between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO). Co-funded by ...

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to perform the preliminary design phase, including development of critical enabling technologies, of the pressurized Multi-Purpose Habitation (MPH) ...

Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has announced LunarLizzie™, the company's newest and most advanced satellite platform engineered for lunar and cislunar missions. This powerful spacecraft is expected to support payloads up to 800 kg, integrate LiDAR, hyperspectral imaging, AI powered autonomous ...

An advanced large solid rocket motor hot fire test conducted at L3Harris’ Camden, Arkansas, site. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders have announced plans to construct an extensive large solid rocket motor (LSRM) production campus at ...

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has successfully completed the first deployment test for one of its Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) for the lunar Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE). Powered by PPE and Redwire’s ROSAs, the Gateway will represent the pinnacle ...

SpeQtral and Thales Alenia Space have signed a new collaboration agreement, extending their strategic partnership for the development and demonstration of quantum communications between space and Earth. Quantum information networks represent a major breakthrough in information technology. They will enable ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has announced reflective beam expanders with the option to optimally operate in high vacuum environments, expanding or reducing high power laser beams.  Benefiting from a high throughput off-axis design, these beam expanders provide an unobstructed output and highly efficient transmission. The reflective ...

KRYTAR is celebrating its 50th anniversary—the company serves a broad range of sectors, including commercial and military wireless communications, radar systems, space exploration, and thermal vacuum applications. KRYTAR’s extensive product portfolio spans frequencies from DC to 110 GHz and includes ...

Enpulsion has launched Nexus, the company's most advanced propulsion system to date. Designed for spacecraft up to 500 kilograms, Nexus delivers significantly increased thrust and enhanced orbit-raising capabilities, addressing the growing demand for responsive, high-performance electric propulsion in smallsat missions ...

By Chris Forrester Maxime Puteaux (Principal, Novaspace) moderated this panel. Novaspace is a major supplier of data and analysis focusing on upstream consulting and market intelligence related to industry issues such as satellite manufacturing, space transportation, and in-orbit operations. Dennis ...

Skyservice Business Aviation has expanded their avionics offering with a new Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Gogo Galileo HDX system on Bombardier Challenger CL604, CL605 and CL650 aircraft. With Transport Canada certification approval, Skyservice becomes the only Maintenance, Repair ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have ...

SpaceX has acquired Akoustis Technologies which manufactures integrated devices using patented bulk acoustic wave RF filters. SpaceX, using subsidiary Tune Holdings, acquired the company out of bankruptcy. “Through the Transaction and in compliance with the sale order entered by the ...

VPT, Inc., a HEICO company (NYSE:HEI.A) (NYSE: HEI), recently released their first DC-DC power supply with extremely quiet and low noise outputs (<0.25 mV), designed specifically for noise-sensitive RF space applications, the SLNP17-100CQ. Through a multi-stage approach, this converter demonstrates ...

Resolve Optics is a well-established designer and supplier of application optimized satellite and space platform lenses. These lenses are essential components of cameras, optical instruments and sensors used to observe the Earth, explore space, and remotely conduct scientific research. They ...

Chunghwa Telecom has signed a strategic partnership with U.S. satellite innovator Astranis to bring a dedicated MicroGEO satellite to Taiwan—with features such as rapid deployment, high performance, and exceptional reliability, this satellite will significantly expand satellite capacity over Taiwan. The ...

Outgassing is the process in which materials release gas when exposed to heat or vacuum. ASTM E595-77/84/90 is a NASA standard used to determine how much volatile content is contained in a material sample. For an optical product to be ...

Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO) has unveiled the firm's newest silicon, Ku-band, SATCOM beamformer, IC family for phased array-based user terminals—these next-generation ICs set a new benchmark for SATCOM user terminals, reducing DC power consumption by 25% for transmit arrays and 14% ...