Terran Orbital Corporation (“Terran Orbital”) has announced that the firm has received contracts and awards totaling more than $170 million since September 30, 2021 — this includes multiple agreements and awards from several government and commercial customers. Terran Orbital previously announced that the firm had entered into a business combination agreement with Tailwind Two Acquisition […]
Manufacturing
The 2Gen PRISMA EO System + HydRON Builds Now Underway By Thales Alenia Space + Teams
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to conduct a feasibility study for the PRISMA Second Generation (PSG) hyperspectral Earth observation system. This will be leading a consortium that includes Leonardo, Telespazio (the joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales […]
Imager Integration For NOAA’s GOES-U Completed By L3Harris
The fourth Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) built by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been successfully integrated into NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U), completing the series of advanced weather sensors for the GOES program, slated to launch in 2024. The ABIs onboard the GOES series of satellites provide revolutionary technology by advancing weather observation and environmental […]
A U.S. Manufacturing Facility To Be Established By TESAT-SPACECOM
Tesat-Spacecom (TESAT) is expanding its manufacturing footprint into the United States to support its U.S. government and commercial customers. With more than 500,000 hours of operation and 10 Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) in space, TESAT is the only provider worldwide for on-orbit-verified OCTs. TESAT is setting-up manufacturing operations in the U.S. to meet the growing […]
mu Space CEO + Founder To Speak @ The SmallSat Symposium
mu Space Corp has been invited to speak at the SmallSat Symposium in Silicon Valley — mu Space will be representing the space industry in Southeast Asia at this internationally renowned event. Joining the event will allow mu Space to announce the company’s latest updates that include the recently priced mu-B200 satellite at $4 million. […]
Loft Orbital Signs Airbus To Build 15 Arrow Satellite Platforms
Airbus has been contracted to supply space start-up Loft Orbital with more than 15 satellite platforms derived from the Airbus Arrow platform, the foundational satellite platform of the OneWeb constellation. There are 394 Airbus Arrow platforms on-orbit for the OneWeb constellation and a further 254 are being produced to complete the 648 spacecraft required by […]
Intelsat To Acquire Two Software-Defined Satellites From Thales Alenia Space
Intelsat and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), have signed an agreement to build two, software-defined satellites designed to advance Intelsat’s global fabric of software-defined GEO connectivity as part of its 5G software-defined network. The addition of the Thales Alenia Space software-defined satellites represents an essential advancement in Intelsat’s 5G […]
Satellite Build Contract Assigned To Airbus By ESA For The Ariel Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Airbus to build the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) \mission — Ariel is the fourth, medium-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision program. Ariel will study the composition of exoplanets, how they formed and how they evolve, by surveying a diverse sample of about 1,000 […]
Airbus Completes 2nd Ocean Satellite Sentinel-6B
Airbus has completed Sentinel-6B, the second ocean monitoring satellite of the European Copernicus program and is now testing it extensively over the next six months in preparation for its use in space. The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission is already delivering high-precision measurement of the topography of ocean surfaces through the first of two satellites, Sentinel-6A, launched […]
New, Sustainable Space Firm Outpost Launches To Design + Manufacture Reusable Satellites
Outpost has launched as a sustainable space firm that is working to redefine what it means to be a space company with sustainability at its core. The company is starting by first solving one of the biggest problems — creating reusable satellites and enabling precision Earth Return of orbital payloads — and designing and manufacturing […]