Ball Aerospace, Loft Federal and Microsoft are working together on the Space Development Agency (SDA)’s experimental testbed program, called NExT, that will carry 10 satellites with experimental payloads into orbit. […]
Satellite Testing
The 1st pair of 2Gen Airbus-built weather satellites enter test phase
The Airbus built satellite twins, MetOp-SG A and B, will provide a panoply of new meteorological data that will substantially improve numerical weather prediction — the backbone of our daily […]
ISTSat-1 smallsat successfully passes thermal vacuum tests
ISTSat-1, the first Portuguese CubeSat, has completed its crucial structural qualification and thermal-vacuum tests as part of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! Program and now it‘s ready for the next destination: […]
Rohde & Schwarz collaborates with Qualcomm and Iridium Communications to test Snapdragon Satellite connectivity on next-gen Android
Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Iridium Communications Inc. and Rohde & Schwarz recently collaborated on testing and validating Snapdragon® Satellite, a solution from Qualcomm Technologies for satellite-based connectivity on next-generation Android smartphones. […]
Galileo signal component tested for Internet of Things (IoT) use
Recently, one of Europe’s Galileo satellites has been reconfigured to emit a new signal component optimized to serve low-end receiver devices and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. One of the […]
Keysight delivers new Solar Array Simulator solution for satellite power systems
Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced the new MP4300A Series Modular Solar Array Simulator (SAS) to emulate the behavior of photovoltaic (PV) segments. The SAS solution simulates all conditions a craft or […]
SES-21 now operational to serve CONUS
The new SES-21 satellite for SES is now operational at the orbital position of 131 degrees West, after launching on October 4, 2022 — after reaching its final fixed position and […]
ViaSat-3 completes final integrated satellite test
Viasat Inc. has completed the Final Integrated Satellite Test (FIST) of the ViaSat-3 satellite and has now progressed to the Flight Final phase of integration, where the build-up to flight […]
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 […]