NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space, including testing in high-altitude, reduced gravity, or other relevant […]
Payload Integration
Exolaunch to deploy four Spire-built satellites for NorthStar via Rocket Lab’s Electron
Exolaunch, a global provider of launch mission management, integration, and deployment services, will deploy four, Canadian, NorthStar Earth & Space satellites, built by Spire Global, via a Rocket Lab Electron […]
The Communications Module of the SpainSat NG-I satellite is safely shipped
The Communications Module of the SpainSat NG-I telecommunications satellite has left the plant of Thales Alenia Space (joint venture between Thales, 67%, and Leonardo, 33%) in Tres Cantos (Spain) inside […]
General Atomics delivers spacecraft simulator supporting NASA TSIS-2 program
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has developed and delivered a spacecraft simulator to the University of Colorado (CU) Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in support of the Total […]
General Atomics receives Advanced Space contract for AFRL cislunar spacecraft
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is now under contract to Advanced Space LLC to build an ESPA-Grande class satellite, perform payload integration, and space vehicle test for the Air Force […]
Expleo reaches milestone for New Space smallsat launches
Expleo has completed the Assembly Integration & Test (AIT) milestone for the payload of two smallsat projects. With the completion of the AIT phase, the payload subsystems are qualified, validated […]
The largest smallsat constellation build contract to date received by Blue Canyon Technologies
Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has been selected to provide 18 cubesats for The Tomorrow Companies Inc. (“Tomorrow.io”) microwave sounding mission. […]
Viasat completes a major milestone with the 2nd ViaSat-3 satellite payload
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has delivered their second ViaSat-3 payload module to Boeing‘s El Segundo, California, facility, where it will be integrated with Boeing’s 702 spacecraft bus platform and undergo […]
NanoAvionics’ Solar Sail Selected For NASA’s ACS3 Mission
NanoAvionics was recently selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an on-orbit demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA […]
Xona’s Huginn Demo Smallsat Delivered To Spaceflight For SpaceX Transporter 5 Payload Integration
Xona Space Systems, the aerospace startup developing a precision navigation and timing (PNT) system in LEO, has announced that their first in-space demonstrator has been delivered to Spaceflight Inc. for […]