Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced that HawkEye 360 has initiated manufacturing of the 12th and 13th Clusters of the company’s radio frequency (RF) geolocating, smallsat constellation — the six […]
SmallSat Builds
Students successfully conclude the Baseline Design Review of their CubeSats
Last April, students from six CubeSats Teams successfully concluded the Baseline Design Review of their CubeSats as part of ESA Academy‘s new Fly Your Satellite! (FYS!) Design Booster Program — […]
Spire Global + OroraTech awarded contract to demo wildfire detection from space
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a contract to Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) subsidiary, ExactEarth Ltd., to deliver preparatory work for implementation phases of a wildfire monitoring satellite. […]
The UK’s University of Bristol satellite (UoBSat) team concludes their smallsat test campaign at ESA’s CubeSat Support Facility
The UoBSat team from the University of Bristol in the UK recently completed their environmental test campaign for the PROVE-Pathfinder, a CubeSat imaging payload, as part of the Fly Your […]
Thales Alenia Space signs Space Factory 4.0 contract with the Italian Space Agency
Thales Alenia Space has won a contract from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to conduct the development of the Space Factory 4.0 program in the frame of the Italian National […]
Northrop Grumman rapidly completes their CDR for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed a critical design review (CDR) for the firm’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), part of Space Development Agency’s (SDA) LEO network designed to […]
Blue Canyon Technologies receives JPL smallsats build award
Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, will design and manufacture three smallsats to support NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts, or INCUS, mission. The principal investigator is Susan […]
A Transporter-7 triumph: The GroundBreaker launched by Sateliot
Sateliot has launched Sateliot_0 “The GroundBreaker,” the first, 5G standard, LEO satellite for access to the Internet of Things (IoT). The launch occurred during the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-7 mission […]
Kepler raises million$$ for optical constellation
Kepler Communications recently raised $92 million in Series C funding led by IA Ventures — since 2016, the company has raised more than $200 million in equity, with support from […]
A Transporter-7 feat: Momentus’ Vigoride-6 OSV lofted
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), on April 14th., launched their third, Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) to LEO aboard the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission — the company established contact with the Vigoride […]