As of May 1, RUAG Space is legally renamed Beyond Gravity and the company has been operating under the Beyond Gravity brand since March 15. Space supplier Beyond Gravity, based in Zurich, Switzerland, becomes the legal successor to RUAG Space on May 1. The company has been operating on the market as Beyond Gravity since […]
Manufacturing
Boeing’s One Million Square Foot Production Facility For High-Throughput Small Satellites
Boeing’s 1-million-square-foot El Segundo facility (92,903 square meters) designed for efficiency and rapid delivery timelines will house the small satellite production line. Boeing unveiled a new high-throughput small satellite production, integration and test facility designed for efficiency and rapid delivery timelines. Housed in the world’s largest satellite factory, Boeing’s 1-million-square-foot El Segundo facility (92,903 square […]
Company Co-Founder Joins Start-Up Reflex Aerospace
Christian Lindener, formerly responsible for Innovation and Company Building at Airbus, has left the company to become an entrepreneur and bring satellites to market in record time with Reflex Aerospace. Christian joined Reflex Aerospace as co-founder at the start of April. Reflex Aerospace is a Berlin and Munich-based, new space start-up that aims to transform […]
PSN Group To Build The Nusantara Lima Satellite
PSN Group has entered into contracts to build the Nusantara Lima Satellite that will be launched in 2023 and will augment the capacity of SATRIA-1 — with these 2 VHTS, PSN Group will be one of the biggest satellite capacity providers in Asia with approximately 330 Gbps covering Indonesia and surrounding areas. The Nusantara Lima […]
Comtech Unveils World’s Fastest 5 Gbps Gateway Modem To Optimize Satellite Constellations + Large VSAT Networks
Comtech has unveiled their new, advanced, high-speed CDM-780 Gateway modem, capable of managing unprecedented amounts of data delivered over new ultra-powerful and complex wideband GEO, MEO and LEO satellites and constellations to provide high-speed trunking services to gateways and support massive VSAT networks of hundreds-of-thousands of sites. The CDM-780 Gateway Modem, with five times the […]
New Skycraft Smallsat Manufacturing Facility Opens In Canberra, Australia
Skykraft officially opened its new manufacturing facility in the center of Canberra at the UNSW Canberra City campus today. The new facility is enabling the development of the largest ever Australian manufactured space payload, weighing 300 kg., which is confirmed for launch this year with SpaceX from Florida. Skykraft, is an Australian company that delivers […]
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems Ships The USSF’s GEO Wide Field Of View Satellite For Launch
The U.S. Space Force‘s Wide Field of View spacecraft arrived safely on February 2 to the launch processing facility in Florida, having shipped from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company’s headquarters in El Segundo, California. This satellite was procured by the Space Systems Command to serve as testbed for Wide Field of View […]
Forrester’s Digest: OneWeb | LEO Comms | New Scottish Spaceport | Telesat | Turning Off Russian Transponders
OneWeb Satellite Construction Could Remain In Florida When the UK made its $500 million investment in the – then bankrupt – OneWeb satellite constellation, much was made of the prospects for production of the actual satellites, with UK officials talking optimistically about satellites being built in the UK. Alok Sharma, then business secretary in the […]
Additional Growth For Fleet Space Technologies + Australian Government Awards Million$$
Fleet Space Technologies has announced that the Australian Government has committed $20 million to the development of the Space Manufacturing Hub in Adelaide, South Australia. This adds to funds already committed by The Government of South Australia (A$20 million) and a consortium of leading space, aerospace and advanced air mobility companies including Fleet, Q-CTRL, AtSpace […]
Advanced Techniques = Record Breaking Build Speed For Boeing’s WGS-11+ Satellite
Boeing has begun building the latest version of the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite system, WGS-11+, using advanced techniques to effectively integrate the latest commercial technology while enabling a high-paced five-year schedule that will deliver years faster than similar, clean-sheet designs. Boeing and the U.S. Space Force completed the system’s critical design review in late 2021, […]