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Payload Development

Firefly Alpha’s stage separation anomaly sends Lockheed Martin’s satellite into South Pacific near the Antarctic

April 29, 2025

Firefly Alpha rocket experienced a launch anomaly that left a Lockheed Martin satellite in a significantly “lower than planned orbit”, and the “stage and its payload reentered over the South […]

Filed Under: Aerospace, Aerospace Corporation, Alpha Missions (FIrefly), Anomaly, Anomaly Detection, Antarctica, Buses, Business Moves, Contracts, Demonstrations, Development, Engines / Thrusters, Firefly Aerospace, Launch Delay, Lockheed Martin, Mission, Mission Agreement, Orbit, Payload Development, SmallSat, Smallsat Launch, Smallsat Launch Vehicles, South Pacific, Statement Tagged With: Featured

Vulcan rolls out for Wet Dress Rehearsal preparing to launch on second certification mission (CERT-2)

September 30, 2024

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket will launch the second certification (Cert-2) mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Friday, October 4, […]

Filed Under: Cape Canaveral SFS, Centaur, Certification, Launch, Launch Facilities, Launch Preparations, Launch Providers, Military, Payload Development, U.S. Space Force, United Launch Alliance, Vulcan, Vulcan Centaur, Wet Dress Rehearsal

NASA selects BAE Systems to develop ocean color instrument for NOAA

May 22, 2024

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems to develop an instrument to analyze ocean data as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations […]

Filed Under: Agencies, BAE Systems, Business Moves, Development, NASA, News, NOAA, Ocean Color Instrument, Payload Development

Rocket Factory Augsburg names eight customers on second flight

November 27, 2023

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and the German Space Agency in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) today announced the winners of the second round of the payload competition for German launcher […]

Filed Under: Awards, Camera Systems, Constellation, Endurosat, EnduroSat Space Center, ESA, Europe, German Space Agency (DLR), Microlauncher, Mini-Launcher, Payload Development, Research, Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), Satellite Manufacturing, smallsats, Space Debris

MDA completes acquisition of SATIXFY digital payload division

October 31, 2023

MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has completed the previously announced acquisition of SatixFy Space Systems UK Ltd. (SSS), the digital payload division of SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX). The newly acquired division, based […]

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Business Moves, Canada, Constellation, Constellations, Digital Payload, MDA, News, Payload Development, Payloads, SatixFy, SmallSat, Smallsat Payloads, smallsats, United Kingdom (UK)

Galileo Second Generation enters full development phase

June 4, 2023

The main procurements batch of Galileo Second Generation initiated last summer has been finalized — the system is now ready for its In Orbit Validation development phase. ESA Director of […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Constellation, Contracts, ESA, Europe, Galileo, Galileo Second Generation (G2), Navigation Satellite System, On-Oribt Validation, Payload Development, Satellite Development, System Engineering Support, Thales Tagged With: Featured

KOREASAT 6A packing a Thales Alenia Space SBAS payload

April 10, 2023

Following the communications satellite contract signed in September of 2022, KT SAT Corporation Ltd. (KT SAT) and Thales Alenia Space have announced that KOREASAT 6A satellite will also include a […]

Filed Under: BSS, Comms, FSS, GNSS, GPS, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Korea Augmentation Satellie System (KASS), KT SAT, Payload Development, Payloads, Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS), Scientific Payloads, South Korea, Thales Alenia Space

All Points bulletin names former NASA Administrator to Board of Advisors

December 15, 2022

All Points Logistics, LLC (All Points), a diversified technical services company for the space and defense industry, announced former NASA Administrator James “Jim” Bridenstine has joined the All Points Board […]

Filed Under: Advisor, Advisory Group, Appointments, Artemis, Astronauts, Business Moves, Defense, Defense Logistics Agency, International Space Station (ISS), Leadership, Logistics, Lunar, Moon, NASA, Payload Development, Payloads, Services Provider, Teaming

AAC Clyde Space’s first Kelpie satellite Supporting ORBCOMM’s AIS Service to Cape Canaveral launch site

November 29, 2022

AAC Clyde Space has delivered the first Kelpie satellite to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in preparation for its planned launch onboard the SpaceX Transporter 6 mission expected in December 2022. The […]

Filed Under: AAC Clyde Space, Agreement, AIS, Antennas, Business Moves, Cape Canaveral SFS, Commercial, Comms, Constellation, Government, IoT, IoT-as-a-Service, Nanosatellite, Payload Development, SmallSat, Space Data Highway, SpaceX

Millennium Space Systems completes the CDR for USSF’s MTC payload

November 28, 2022

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, completed a Critical Design Review for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command’s Missile Track Custody, or MTC, program mission payload. The MTC payload […]

Filed Under: Boeing, CDR, Military, Millennium Space Systems, Missile Tracking, News, Payload Development, Payloads, Target Detection, U.S. Space Command, U.S. Space Force

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