UK based SuperSharp, part of the Satlantis group, has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics’s (NanoAvionics) MP42 microsatellite platform for a first-of-its-kind Thermal InfraRed (TIR) mission called Blue Moon. The mission will embark […]
Instruments
ISRO to launch EOS-08’s three payloads on Friday
ISRO is prepped to launch an Earth observation satellite EOS-08 onboard the third and final developmental flight of its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle on Friday morning. The primary objectives of […]
Astrobotic plans to fly on a Falcon, signs up for heavy launch services
Astrobotic announced today during the spring Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) its purchase of launch services aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for its third upcoming lander mission to the […]
Airbus delivers the 1st Sentinel-4 air-monitoring instrument to ESA
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA) — this instrument will be […]
Thales Alenia Space enlists HyperScout® M to unlock on-orbit applications from the ISS to benefit Earth
HyperScout® M, the most compact version of Cosine’s HyperScout product line, has been adopted by Thales Alenia Space, as high-performance Earth Observation sensor of choice to unlock new on-orbit climate […]
HyperScout 2 ready for integration of Australia’s Kanyini spacecraft’s mission
Cosine‘s HyperScout 2 instrument, selected as hyperspectral imager for the top-level Australian satellite mission Kanyini, is ready to be integrated into the spacecraft. HyperScout 2 is a three-in-one instrument that […]
RAL Space works on the MWS Proto Flight Model calibration for the MetOp-SG satellite
ESA’s MetOp Second Generation (SG) series, developed under EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) and integrated by Airbus Defence and Space, will consist of three successive pairs of satellites working […]
Canada’s instrument on the Webb Space Telescope confirms water in the atmosphere of the WASP-96 b expolanet
A glimpse of the hidden universe was revealed through the recent release of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first science images and spectroscopic data. Observations made by the powerful space […]
Teledyne Technologies’ Infrared Detectors Aboard The James Webb Space Telescope
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) provided 15, extremely sensitive, H2RG infrared detectors that are used in three of the four science instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: the Near-Infrared Camera […]
The First Light Images From Landsat 9 Are Released By NASA
Landsat 9, a joint mission from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, was launched on September 27, 2021, and has now collected its first images of Earth. These images, all […]