Following the December 22, 2023, press release, concerning the contract for 20 satellites for Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs & Fisheries, with a value of approx. 650 MSEK, discussions on […]
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GMV to lead ESA’s LEO PNT End-to-End In-Orbit Demonstrator mission
The aim of this mission is to demonstrate services and develop key technologies of LEO satellites for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) by launching a small constellation of five satellites. […]
Airbus-built TEXUS sounding rockets launched to conduct experiments in microgravity
The TEXUS 60 rocket was successfully launched by Airbus on Sunday, March 24, at 10:45 CET, from Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna, Sweden — the rocket reached an apogee of […]
Open Cosmos ‘HAMMER’ satellite successfully launched via the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission
Open Cosmos recently launched HAMMER, the company’s latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite — after a successful lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as […]
NASA’s Tiny BurstCube mission launched to study cosmic blasts
NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft traveled aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply […]
Benchmark electric propulsion thrusters on-orbit + poised for 1st firing
Benchmark Space Systems has revealed the firm’s Xantus™ electric propulsion system has successfully deployed and will undergo subsystem health check and operational verification, including a range of firing modes, aboard […]
Intelsat expands their Eutelsat Group LEO agreement
Intelsat has expanded the firm’s partnership with Eutelsat Group related to that company’s OneWeb LEO constellation — the deal is a significant development for multi-orbit satellite connectivity solutions and positions […]
Sidus Space establishes 2-way comms with their LS-1 Satellite
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIDU) has established two-way communications with its state-of-the-art, 3D-printed satellite, LizzieSat™, focused on Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing solutions powered by Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (Geo-AI). […]
Tyvak International’s Milani satellite delivered to ESA for the HERA mission
Tyvak International SRL (“Tyvak International”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Terran Orbital has completed the formal delivery of the Hera Milani satellite to the European Space Agency. Hera Milani is a […]
Space-based air traffic test by Startical to be managed on a NanoAvionics smallsat
Startical, the company created by ENAIRE (Europe’s fourth-largest air navigation services provider), and Indra will use a satellite produced by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test the systems of the company’s future […]