RUAG Space has been producing space thermal protection at the firm’s site in Austria for 30 years — technology from RUAG Space now protects more than 400 satellites in space […]
Manufacturing
Virgin Orbit + Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Sign A Collaboration MOU
Virgin Orbit has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a new collaboration with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), an independent, non-profit research and development organization. Under the terms of […]
EPC Space’s Rad Hard Gallium Nitride Power Devices for Astranis’ Geostationary Satellites
Astranis has selected EPC Space to provide Rad Hard gallium nitride-based power devices for use in DC power supplies on the latest satellite build. Earlier Astranis announced it has started to build […]
Rocket Lab Contracts To Launch BlackSky Global Monitoring Smallsats + Photon Spacecraft For Varda Space’s In-Space Manufacturing Factories
Rocket Lab has revealed that their next mission is part of a rapid launch schedule of three dedicated Electron missions for global monitoring provider BlackSky. Scheduled to lift-off from Launch […]
Advanced Manufacturing Facility For NASA’s Orion Missions Opened By Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has now opened their Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center that features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity […]
New Satellite Integration Clean Room Opened By Thales Alenia Space In Spain
Thales Alenia Space has inaugurated the company’s new satellite integration clean room in Tres Cantos (Madrid); with the presence of the Minister of Science and Innovation of Spain, Pedro Duque, […]
EAST Covers South … East’s Commercial Breakthrough Offers Coverage To Much Of South Asia
EAST‘s state-of-the-art newWAVE satellites will revolutionize the economics of broadband connectivity and make all satellites in-orbit and on-order obsolete… EAST Satellite Holding Pty Ltd (EAST) announces the signing of its first anchor-tenant […]
Thales Alenia Space’s New Key Contract To Develop Galileo’s Second Generation
Thales Alenia Space, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 Satellite Navigation Program (HSNAV), to develop the Advanced […]
Smiths Interconnect To Develop G-Band Antenna For Mitsubishi Electronic Co.
Smiths Interconnect has received a contract from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to participate in the development of a G-band satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Smiths Interconnect will design a […]
NASA Bolsters SMB Program With $45 Million Investment
NASA has awarded $45 million in early-stage funding to more than 300 U.S. small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and research operations on an accelerated schedule to help offset the impact of […]