This launch provider’s experience with new propulsive options that are determined to be paramount in helping scientists get spacecraft to non-traditional orbits… Spaceflight Inc., the global launch services provider, announced today it has been awarded a launch service contract for the integration and launch of NASA’s LLITED mission, two 1.5U spacecraft. Spaceflight Inc. will transport […]
Propulsion
Maxar and Busek Thruster System Pass Milestone For NASA Lunar Gateway
Busek Co., a developer of high-performance electric propulsion technology for space applications, and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), their partner and innovator in Earth intelligence and Space Infrastructure, have completed an end-to-end hot fire test campaign validating all major elements of the 6-kiblowatt solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem for the Power and Propulsion Element […]
Accion Systems + NanoAvionics US Sign Space Propulsion Partnership Agreement
Accion Systems has signed a new partnership agreement with NanoAvionics US Inc. — the TILE in-space propulsion system will be listed as a preferred option for all appropriate missions that require electric in-space propulsion and Accion Systems will provide preferred pricing to NanoAvionics US Inc. NanoAvionics is a smallsat mission integrator focused on delivering new […]
Northrop Grumman To Power Mars Ascent Vehicle
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by NASA to provide solid propulsion systems and controls for NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which will be launched to Mars in 2026 along with a “fetch” rover that will collect soil and rock samples prepared by NASA’s Perseverance rover, which launched in July of 2020 and […]
Ball Aerospace Sails into Space With Test “Sailcraft” for NASA’s Solar Propulsion Technology Demonstration
Ball Aerospace has been selected by NASA to provide a solar sail for the Solar Cruiser mission. The spacecraft will deploy an 18,000-square-foot sail — roughly the size of four regulation basketball courts stitched together. This is a NASA small satellite technology demonstration on the use of solar photons for propulsion in space. Ball will […]
Momentus To Provide Orbital Maneuvering Services To Qosmosys
Momentus Inc. (“Momentus” or the “Company”) and Qosmosys, a new venture founded in Singapore last year, have announced a service agreement for two 3UXL protoflight cubesats in 2022, followed by two options in 2023. Momentus will provide the orbital maneuvering services necessary to deliver the spacecraft to a circular or elliptical orbit, depending on each […]
Iodine Propulsion Proven Viable For Smallsats In Space By ThrustMe + Spacety
The space industry seeks new solutions to ensure economic and environmental space sustainability with the rise of satellite mega-constellations. A solution lies in the use of on-orbit propulsion, but traditional systems are not fit for the New Space paradigm. ThrustMe has announced that they have successfully tested the first iodine-fueled electric propulsion system in space […]
Space Mobility On-Orbit Demo Success By Exotrail
Exotrail reports the full success of the first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect electric propulsion technology. Through an In-Orbit Demonstration mission launched to LEO on November 7, 2020, onboard a PSLV rocket, Exotrail nominally ignited its ExoMG™ Hall-effect electric propulsion system on the first attempt. Smallsat constellations will now be able to quickly change their […]
Iodine Electric Propulsion To Become A Critical Subsystem For SAR Constellations
ThrustMe and Spacety have announced a new space launch, the 3rd in an ongoing series — this time, Spacety launched their Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, Hisea-1, which is the world’s first, commercial, C-band, smallsat SAR with a phased array antenna. On board is ThrustMe’s Iodine Electric Propulsion system to provide the satellite with crucial […]
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Powerful Contribution to ULA’s Launch of National Reconnaissance Office Payload
The force that sends a rocket into space is amazing, and Aerojet Rocketdyne did just that. Aerojet Rocketdyne powered the recent successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket yesterday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket launched a classified national security payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance […]