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First Structural Metal Cutting In Space Demo By Nanoracks + Maxar Will Be Aboard The SpaceX Transporter 5 Rideshare Mission

Voyager and Nanoracks have announced that the first Outpost demonstration mission (Outpost Mars Demo-1) is expected to launch this month aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare flight. This mission is part of the firms’ Outpost Program, which is focused on transforming used launch vehicle upper stages into uncrewed, controllable platforms. Nanoracks designed a self-contained, hosted payload […]

Orbit Logic Awarded Lunar Swarms Autonomy NASA Phase II STTR

Orbit Logic has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by NASA to further mature the Intelligent Navigation, Planning, and Awareness for Swarm Systems (IN-PASS) solution. IN-PASS builds on Orbit Logic’s flight-proven Autonomous Planning System (APS) decentralized planning framework to enable the configuration, evaluation and validation of team-collaborative, robotic mission concepts. […]

MDA Creates New Jobs With New Canadian Global Headquarters And Space Robotics Center Of Excellence

MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA), a provider of advanced technology and services to the ever expanding global space industry, revealed details of its new purpose-built global headquarters and Space Robotics Center of Excellence in Brampton, Ontario, a facility that will support the company’s ongoing growth and lay the groundwork for long-term success in the evolving commercial space […]

From International Space Station And Space Walks To President Of OneWeb

OneWeb Technologies, provider of innovative and secure commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) application solutions, has named former astronaut Tim Kopra as President. In his new role, Tim will be responsible for leading the company’s growth as it continues to expand its partnerships and solve secure, mission-critical real-time connectivity challenges for the U.S. government, its allies, and […]

Additional Growth For Fleet Space Technologies + Australian Government Awards Million$$

Fleet Space Technologies has announced that the Australian Government has committed $20 million to the development of the Space Manufacturing Hub in Adelaide, South Australia. This adds to funds already committed by The Government of South Australia (A$20 million) and a consortium of leading space, aerospace and advanced air mobility companies including Fleet, Q-CTRL, AtSpace […]

Spring Cleaning On The ISS Using Voyager + Nanoracks Innovative Technologies

More than a year has passed since Voyager and Nanoracks’ Bishop Airlock took flight and became the first permanent, commercial addition to the International Space Station (ISS). Most recently, the company sent five customer missions to the ISS onboard Northrop Grumman’s 17th (NG-17) commercial resupply mission. Along with customer research and technology, Nanoracks launched some […]

Blue Origin To Acquire Honeybee Robotics

Honeybee Robotics (Honeybee) is going to be acquired by Blue Origin and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Origin — the deal between Honeybee’s parent organization, Ensign-Bickford Industries, and Blue Origin, is expected to close in mid-February… terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Since 1983, Honeybee Robotics has delivered more than […]

High Earth Orbit Robotics Completes Seed Financing Round To Launch Satellite + SSA Inspection Products

HEO Robotics, based in Sydney, Australia, has raised a seed financing round to launch their HEO Inspect product. HEO Robotics visually monitors satellites and space debris to help satellite operators to monitor their space assets as well as governments with Space Situational Awareness (SSA). The company does this using Earth Observation (EO) satellites already on-orbit […]

MoU For On-Orbit Servicing Signed Between Astroscale, Mitsubishi + Government Of Japan

Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that Astroscale Japan Inc. (“Astroscale Japan”) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (“Mitsubishi Heavy Industries”) to cooperate on active debris removal and other projects for improving space environmental protection, marking the first collaboration between Astroscale and a launch services provider. Astroscale Japan has […]