Thales Alenia Space has won a contract from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to conduct the development of the Space Factory 4.0 program in the frame of the Italian National […]
Satellite Design
Spaceflight Inc. readies BlackSky smallsats for upcoming Rocket Lab launch
Spaceflight Inc. will launch two BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) satellites aboard Rocket Lab’s next mission called “The Beat Goes On,” from Mahia, New Zealand. The spacecraft, now in New Zealand for […]
EchoStar starts construction of a 28 smallsat constellation
Procures satellites and plans Australian operations for new Low Earth Orbit constellation to power connectivity for smart devices EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) has announced an agreement with Astro Digital, a […]
Sidus Space’s agreement with SkyWatch expands commercial data distribution strategy
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), has signed an agreement with SkyWatch for use of its TerraStream data-management platform. Sidus Space is a Space-as-a-Service company providing mission critical hardware manufacturing and commercial […]
Reflex Aerospace receives million€s in seed financing round
Already in the first round of the two-part seed financing, satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace has raised an investment volume of approximately 7 million euros. In the second round — which […]
Spire Global has unveiled their next-gen smallsat bus
Earlier this month, Spire Global, Inc. revealed the firm’s next-gen 16U satellite bus design — the bus is tailored for customers with missions that require larger payloads and more power, […]
Exobotics to build a smallsat for GenMat for mapping all of the Earth’s minerals
Exobotics has won a multi-million-pound customer contract from advanced materials specialist Quantum Generative Materials (GenMat) to construct a high-precision, remote sensing, prospecting satellite. Exobotics will design, manufacture, and test a […]
SES selects Arianespace to launch the EAGLE-1 satellite
The EAGLE-1 satellite, which will support the end-to-end, secure, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for Europe, will be launched for SES by Arianespace on a Vega C rocket from French […]
Thales Alenia Space awarded KT SAT contract to build the KOREASAT 6A satellite
KT SAT Corporation Ltd. (KT SAT) and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract for the build of the KOREASAT 6A communications satellite. KOREASAT 6A will replace the current KOREASAT […]
UPDATE 2: Space Development Agency contracts for 28 satellite builds for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer — L3Harris statement — Northrop Grumman statement
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded two prototype agreements with a total potential value over $1.3 billion for the establishment of the Tranche 1 (T1) Tracking Layer, providing the […]