Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) to host additional payloads. The contract modification adds $7.7 million to an existing satellite design and […]
Smallsat Payloads
MDA completes acquisition of SATIXFY digital payload division
MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has completed the previously announced acquisition of SatixFy Space Systems UK Ltd. (SSS), the digital payload division of SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX). The newly acquired division, based […]
ESA’s call for proposals: Fly Your Satellite!
ESA invites university and other tertiary education student teams from an eligible state that are producing pico- or nanosatellites (CubeSats or PocketQubes) with educational objectives to propose their satellite for […]
The launch of Arianespace Flight VV23 is a smallsat deployment success
On Friday, October 8, 2023, at 22:36 p.m. local time (01:36 a.m. UTC), Arianespace’s Vega mission successfully lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the optical observation […]
GEOST to build resiliency payload for Northrop Grumman Tracking Layer satellites
GEOST, LLC., (GEOST), a LightRidge Solutions Company, has been selected by Northrop Grumman to build and rapidly deliver its Starlite resiliency payload for Tracking Layer Tranche 1 satellites being developed […]
Telesat + SpaceX sign an MLA for 14 advanced Lightspeed smallsats
Telesat (NASDAQ and TSX: TSAT) and SpaceX have signed a Multi-Launch Agreement (MLA) to deliver the Telesat Lightspeed constellation to LEO. Telesat has contracted 14 launches on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, […]