Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract extension for Phase 2 of its Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar (NGP) program from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems […]
Satellite Testing
ESA’s weather satellite passes environmental tests
As climate change drives more frequent and severe weather events, the need for accurate and timely forecasting has never been more critical. And now, the next Meteosat Third Generation weather […]
The Arctic Weather Satellite completed and heading for testing
Only 36 months were required to develop and build ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS). Now complete, this smallsat has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to Germany where the craft […]
ESA’s call for proposals: Fly Your Satellite!
ESA invites university and other tertiary education student teams from an eligible state that are producing pico- or nanosatellites (CubeSats or PocketQubes) with educational objectives to propose their satellite for […]
Rocket Lab to launch four Leidos HASTE missions
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a contract with Leidos to launch four HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) missions. The missions, scheduled across 2024 and 2025, will […]
EnduroSat launches nexgen FlatSat
EnduroSat has launched DeskSat, the company’s most advanced FlatSat that was developed by firm’s team after extensive work on multiple missions with academic and commercial space customers. As with other […]
Ovzon offers update on the Ovzon 3 satellite
Ovzon has previously announced a change in launch providers from Arianespace to SpaceX in February of this year due to delays in the manufacturing of the Ovzon 3 satellite — […]
Sun-watching Proba-3 formation flyers tested for take-off
ESA’s pair of Sun-watching Proba-3 satellites have been placed in take-off configuration (see image above), one on top of the other, for testing in simulated launch and space conditions at […]
Airbus selects UK National Satellite Test Facility for SKYNET 6A testing
Airbus has selected the National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) at Harwell in Oxfordshire to carry out the comprehensive test campaign on the UK Ministry of Defence’s nexgen, secure communications satellite […]
Thales Alenia Space signs Space Factory 4.0 contract with the Italian Space Agency
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 […]