Sir Peter Beck’s New Zealand-based rocket builder, Rocket Lab, is buying German-based satellite laser specialists Mynaric. Rocket Lab will pay $75 million (€68.7m) in cash and stock and there’s potential […]
Manufacturing
Synspective starts full-scale ops at the Yamato Technology Center for SAR satellite production
Synspective Inc., a provider of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data and analytics solutions, has announced that the Yamato Technology Center, a new manufacturing site for small SAR satellites, began […]
Forrester’s Digest: Terran Orbital raising $98M in share sale
Boca Raton-based satellite builder Terran Orbital is looking to issue additional shares in the company worth a maximum total of $98 million (€90.3m). Terran is limited as to what it […]
Silicon Sensing accelerometer to equip on-orbit manufacturing demo satellite
Following a program of testing and development within satellite vehicles, Space Forge is to launch their on-orbit manufacturing demonstration satellite, ForgeStar-1, equipped with Silicon Sensing’s CAS291 accelerometer. ForgeStar™ satellites will […]
SpaceX still a Go for Wednesday’s Starlink and WorldView Legion 1 & 2 bi-coastal launches
SpaceX is still targeting Wednesday, April 17 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in […]
ARKA invests million$$ in facility expansion
ARKA Group, L.P. recently completed a major expansion of the company’s 550,000 square-foot facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where the company is headquartered, to expand production capability of smallsat systems, payloads […]
Airbus purchases Eutelsat OneWeb’s stake in satellite constellation manufacturing JV
Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc. announced completion of a deal with Eutelsat OneWeb to purchase its 50% share of the Airbus OneWeb Satellites (AOS) joint venture. Airbus is now the […]
Pixxel to launch six home-built hyper-spectral Fireflies satellites in June
Pixxel recently launched its satellite manufacturing unit, Mega Pixxel, in Bengaluru where it can assemble, integrate and test 40 satellites weighing 100 kilograms every year as the nascent company aims […]
SpaceX preps for a Friday launch of 22 Starlinks
SpaceX is ramping up once again and targeting Friday, September 15 at 12:03 a.m. ET (04:53 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from […]
Sierra Space + Redwire partner for in-space biotech facilities
Sierra Space has engaged in a strategic partnership with Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW). Specifically, the two companies are collaborating on groundbreaking commercial pharmaceutical and biotech R&D and manufacturing in LEO. […]