Airbus, with its team of Australian Space industry and academia, has signed a multi-year, strategic partnership agreement to support the Australian Department of Defence’s research program — Resilient Multi-mission Space […]
Payloads
Airbus’ SKYNET 6A satellite passes Critical Design Review
We are building SKYNET 6A with its unique military communications payload entirely in the UK and we currently have more than 45 small to medium sized enterprises and subcontractors helping […]
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 […]
Key Milestone Reached By Thales Alenia Space In The Ongoing Development of Prime OBH’s Copernicus CO2M Mission For The ESA
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed an amendment to its CO2M contract worth €169 million with project prime contractor OHB for the […]
ESA’s Call For Uni CubeSat Team Proposals
Teams that have already assembled their hardware will have the chance to verify equipment, payloads, experiments, or entire nanosatellites making use of the CubeSat Support Facility in ESEC-Galaxia (Belgium). The ESA Academy […]
Spaceflight’s 50th Mission All Groomed + Set For A Rocket Lab Electron Launch
Spaceflight Inc. is preparing for their 50th mission, which will launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket no earlier than April 22. The RL-9 mission, called “There and Back Again,” […]
Inmarsat’s Second 1-6 F2 Satellite Enters Thermal Vacuum Testing
This revolutionary layered approach is designed to meet the accelerating bandwidth requirements of more diverse, demanding and ever more widely adopted applications in the commercial and government mobility markets. Inmarsat’s second groundbreaking I-6 […]
Rocket Lab Planning The First Mid-Air Helicopter Capture Of The Electron Rocket During The Company’s Next Mission “There + Back Again”
For the first time, Rocket Lab will attempt a mid-air helicopter capture of an Electron rocket as it returns to Earth from space, furthering the company’s program to make Electron […]
France Enlists Synchrocube’s Solutions When GNSS Navigation Signals Are Unusable
A news update below regarding the Synchrocube project that aims to provide a complementary solution to navigation systems (GNSS: GALILEO; GPS) in order to provide synchronization functions when GNSS navigation […]
Celestis Memorial Payload To Be Launched By ULA’s Inaugural Vulcan Flight
Celestis, Inc. has entered into a launch services agreement with United Launch Alliance (ULA) who will host a Celestis Memorial Spaceflight payload aboard the initial flight of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur, […]