Satellogic ($SATL) has been granted a new, remote sensing license by NOAA. Satellogic has been building and operating EO satellites equipped with optical and multispectral sensors since the company was […]
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Skyrora + Spirit to enhance future UK launch capability
Skyrora and Spirit AeroSystems have announced a collaboration on orbital launch capability — the companies celebrated the announcement in Belfast, home to Spirit’s largest UK manufacturing facility. UK-based, launch-vehicle manufacturer […]
AAC Clyde Space wins Starbuck order
AAC Clyde Space has won a 1.14 million euros (approx. SEK 13.4 million) order on Starbuck power systems — the order, which comes from an existing customer, is scheduled for […]
Launch of Ireland’s 1st satellite is upcoming…
Watch the live launch broadcast of Ireland’s first satellite — EIRSAT-1 — on ESA Web TV Channel 2 and ESA YouTube, currently scheduled for November 29th. Coverage of this historic […]
Amazon confirms 100% success rate for Project Kuiper Protoflight mission
Amazon’s Project Kuiper has validated all systems and subsystems on board its prototype satellites and has also demo’d the first, two-way video call over Amazon’s end-to-end communications network. Within 30 […]
EIRSAT-1 team discovers what it takes to be spacecraft operators
EIRSAT-1 is Ireland’s first satellite is designed and built by students from University College Dublin who are participating in ESA Academy’s Fly Your Satellite! program. Scheduled for launch in November […]
SpaceX’s Sunday Starlinks launch will be back to back launches this weekend
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, November 19 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base […]
Airbus’ patented “Detumbler” designed to tackle on-orbit debris
Airbus’ patented Detumbler device designed to prevent satellites at the end of their lives from tumbling, was launched on Saturday, November 11, and will be tested in space in association […]
Northrop Grumman completes CDR for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed the company’s Critical Design Review (CDR) on a proliferated LEO constellation of 16 missile tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency (SDA), clearing […]
Quantum Space readies Scout-1 for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission
Quantum Space has unveiled the company’s Sentry mission, the first in a series of milestone demonstrations to prove out end-to-end communications and data generation capabilities — the company is creating […]