Precious Payload, a US/UAE space-tech startup that makes planning and execution of satellite missions easier by taking care of mission and supply chain management, has released its latest feature: a comprehensive launch schedule for smallsats. The schedule, just like online flight-booking tools, gathers all upcoming rocket launches into one, easy-to-browse page. Precious Payload tracks all […]
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Ball Aerospace Expands One Building + Also Opens A New Facility For Payload Development
Ball Aerospace recently completed and officially opened their state-of-the-art, Payload Development Facility (PDF) in Broomfield, Colorado, and is in the process of expanding their Aerospace Manufacturing Center (AMC) in neighboring Westminster, Colorado, scheduled for completion this fall. Attached to the existing Broomfield Research and Development building, Ball Aerospace’s newest facility adds 160,000 square feet of […]
OrbAstro’s Smallsat Platform To Host Aistech Space’s Guardian Imaging Payload
Aistech Space SL (Aistech) has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd (OrbAstro) to fly the company’s first Guardian mission scheduled for launch in Q4 2021 onboard a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission. The OrbAstro ORB-6 satellite platform (6U-class) will host an Aistech multi-spectral imaging payload to commence commercial services addressing markets linked to environmental sustainability. […]
Israel Space Agency (ISA) Selects Ramon.Space For Computing Payload + New Director General Of The ISA
Ramon.Space has been selected by the Israel Space Agency to provide a space computing payload for a mission scheduled to launch in early 2022. As part of the mission, Ramon.Space digital payload will perform computing on-orbit, including software updates and upgrades, using the company’s programmable, space computing systems. Ramon.Space high performance computing systems are based […]
Processor Intelligence For SpaceLink’s Spacecraft To Be Provided By SEAKR
SpaceLink has selected SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) to provide key payload technology for the firm’s relay satellite system. SEAKR is developing technologies for DARPA and the U.S. Space Force and will provide advanced on-board processing for the SpaceLink network (infographic below), which provides secure, continuous, high-capacity communications for time-critical service between spacecraft and the ground. […]
CesiumAstro Selects Keysight Technologies For Latest Phased Array Calibration
CesiumAstro Inc manufacturer of active phased array communications payloads for space and airborne platforms, has selected Keysight Technologies’ (NYSE: KEYS) design and validation solutions to help accelerate the design, manufacturing, and test of CesiumAstro’s high-performance phased array communications payloads. CesiumAstro’s phased array design reduces the cost to build, time to manufacture, and power to operate […]
Blue Origin Launches New Shepard Rocket + Completes 17th Mission To Space
Blue Origin successfully completed the 17th New Shepard mission to space and back for the program and the 8th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle. This flight featured commercial payloads on board, several of which were supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and included a second flight of the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) Sensor […]
USSF’s Next-Gen OPIR, Block 0 GEO Missile Warning Satellites Pass Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s Sensor Payload CDR
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) of their competitive sensor payload design for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared or Next-Gen OPIR, Block 0 GEO missile warning satellites, which are being designed and built by spacecraft prime contractor Lockheed Martin. RI&S is moving forward […]
Blue Origin’s Next New Shepard Flight Set With 18 Commercial Payloads + NASA Lunar Landing Tech Demo
Blue Origin‘s New Shepard’s next mission will fly a NASA lunar landing technology demonstration a second time on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, 11 of which are NASA-supported, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule. Liftoff is currently targeted for Wednesday, August 25, at 8:35 am CDT / 13:35 UTC from Launch Site One in West Texas. Live […]
Successful Launch Of Northrop Grumman’s Resupply and NASA Science Mission
A successful evening launch, 6:01 p.m. EDT, took place on Tuesday, August 10 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft now on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo. At 8:46 p.m., the spacecraft’s solar arrays successfully deployed to […]