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 […]
Smallsat Fleet
A Transporter-7 achievement: HawkEye 360’s Cluster 7 smallsats fired up
HawkEye 360 Inc.’s Cluster 7 nexgen smallsats have successfully been deployed to orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California during the […]
Ball Aerospace, Loft Federal + Microsoft to collaborate on SDA’s NExT program
Ball Aerospace, Loft Federal and Microsoft are working together on the Space Development Agency (SDA)’s experimental testbed program, called NExT, that will carry 10 satellites with experimental payloads into orbit. […]
Unseenlabs to launch their BRO-9 vessel geolocation smallsat
Unseenlabs, a world radio frequency data and solutions provider for Maritime Domain Awareness, is announcing the coming launch of BRO-9, the 9th satellite of the company’s constellation that is dedicated […]
UPDATE: Rocket Lab launches 35th Electron + sets new company record for fastest launch turnaround
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) successfully launched their 35th Electron rocket from Mahia, New Zealand, deploying two, multi-spectral, Gen-2 satellites to LEO for BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) through launch services […]
A 1st look at Project Kuiper’s customer terminals
Project Kuiper is Amazon’s LEO satellite network with the mission to bridge the digital divide by providing fast, affordable broadband to communities unserved or underserved by traditional communications technologies. To […]
Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build 3 more satellites for the world’s largest 5G Narrowband-IoT constellation in LEO
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has received an order for three further satellites from 5G telecoms operator OQ Technology — these satellites will be added to OQ Technology’s existing constellation, turning the […]
MMA Design’s HaWK solar arrays to empower NASA’s SunRISE Mission
The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) unveiled the first of a fleet of smallsats in Logan, Utah, earlier this year in support of NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission […]