Space Micro, powered by Voyager Space, has been selected by the United States Air Force (USAF) AFWERX program for an award to develop an air-to-space laser communications system. Under this […]
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Wyvern Captures Million$ In Seed Round Action + Is Also Accepted Into The Y Combinator Accelerator
Wyvern, a space data company engaged in accessible and affordable hyperspectral imagery, has been accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator after closing an oversubscribed $2.25 million seed round led by […]
Ultra-Low Noise Lasers Being Produced By Avo Photonics For NASA + ESA’s LISA Mission
In support of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and ESA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to measure gravitational waves in space, Avo Photonics is producing more than 20, next […]
Multi-Spectral Optical Payload To Be Supplied By Officina Stellare To ISI For The Defense + Intelligence Sector
Officina Stellare has signed a new contract for a total of approximately 1 million euros with ISI – ImageSat International for an innovative, multi-spectral, optical payload intended for very high […]
UPDATE: Arianespace’s 1st Vega Mission Of The Year Launches Pléiades Neo 3 + Five Additional Smallsat Payloads
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 10:50 pm local time (01:50 UTC on Thursday, April 29), a Vega launch vehicle operated by Arianespace lifted off successfully from the Guiana Space […]
Roman Space Telescope Could Image 100 Hubble Ultra Deep Fields at Once
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years […]
EMCORE Now Shipping Their Optiva NexGen L-Band Fiber Optic Links
EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq: EMKR) is now shipping their Optiva OTS-1LNG Next-Gen L-Band fiber optic links featuring extended bandwidth for native S- and C-band from 50 MHz to 6 GHz. These […]
Thales Alenia Space Providing The Mirror Assembly Module Demonstrator for ESA’s ATHENA Mission
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with ESA worth 2.8 million euros for the study, design, manufacture and test of the ATHENA Mirror Assembly Module Demonstrator. ATHENA (Advanced Telescope […]
UPDATE: Looking @ The Cosmos With Virtual Reality
Mechdyne Corporation is providing a 70 million pixel virtual reality display to the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, California — the unique, overhead curve of the […]
Dragonfly Aerospace’s HR-250 Imagers Heading To EOS DA
Dragonfly Aerospace has concluded an agreement with Earth Observing System Data Analytics (EOS DA) — Dragonfly Aerospace will be delivering two of their HR-250 high-performance, multi-spectral imagers to EOS DA. […]