Horizon Technologies has shipped their first AMBER™ cubesat payload to AAC Clyde Space in Glasgow, Scotland — once the first payload arrives in Scotland, it will undergo testing and then […]
SmallSat
Rocket Lab’s “Return to Sender” Successfully Launches With 30 Smallsats
Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 16th Electron mission and deployed 30 small satellites to orbit, the largest number of satellites deployed by Electron to date on a single mission. The […]
SmallSat Symposium 2021 Offers Early Bird Pricing
Created in partnership with more than 100 subject-matter experts, participants in this year’s SmallSat Symposium conference will collaboratively identify the most important market trends and new technologies that are set […]
Development Grant Received By AstroAgency To Develop Space Hub For The Scottish Space Leadership Council
A strategic marketing firm working exclusively across the international space sector has been awarded a development grant from the UK Space Agency to establish a space hub on behalf of […]
Skyrora Completes Successful Test Firings Of Their LEO Engine
Skyrora has conducted a series of static test fires of their 3rd stage LEO engine, including a vacuum chamber test, designed to replicate space-like conditions to further advance its launch ambitions. […]
Space Flight Laboratory To Build Three Smallsats For GHGSat
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been awarded a contract by GHGSat to build the next three smallsats in its commercial greenhouse gas monitoring constellation. Greenhouse gas emissions detected and measured […]
Orbit Fab’s First Operational Gas Station In Space To Launch In 2021
Orbit Fab has signed an agreement with Spaceflight Inc. to launch the company’s first operational fuel depot to orbit. Tanker 001 Tenzing, which will provide fuel for the fast growing […]
Raytheon Enters Definitive Agreement To Acquire Blue Canyon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a provider of smallsats and spacecraft systems components. Closure of the acquisition, expected by […]
SSC UK Awarded ESA Contract For Development Of Ground Systems Segments For Smallsats
The UK subsidiary of SSC (Swedish Space Corporation) has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency ESA to develop a next generation concept for space to ground communications […]
Lacuna Space’s Fourth IoT Smallsat Launched + Comms Established
Lacuna Space has successfully launched and has established communications with their fourth IoT (Internet of Things) gateway in space. The satellite, carrying a new generation of space gateways, was transported […]