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 — […]
Satellite Testing
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 […]
Ball Aerospace, Loft Federal + Microsoft to collaborate on SDA’s NExT program
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. […]
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 […]