Digital Twins & Modeling

ESA, through its European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) to build a large CubeSat platform for its in-orbit demonstration/in-orbit validation (IOD/IOV) program. Under the project name IHE1-5 CubeSat, NanoAvionics will build a 12 to ...

GomSpace North America, a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB, has received a component purchase order valued at $1.5 million from a leading global service provider. The order includes advanced spacecraft subsystem components to support an upcoming satellite mission. Delivery is ...

AAC Clyde Space has begun integration of the first satellite in its VIREON™ constellation. This phase involves assembling the spacecraft and verifying that the onboard systems work together as designed. The constellation is designed to deliver actionable, high-quality data to ...

Project Kuiper, Amazon’s LEO satellite network, has a simple mission: deliver fast, reliable connectivity to customers and communities around the world. The service will reach a wide range of customers on the ground as well as residential households to schools, ...

Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has successfully deployed the company's new, autonomous, guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software, SpacePilot, and has also commissioned the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) on LizzieSat®-3 (LS3). Designed for next-generation satellite operations, SpacePilot integrates real-time ...

ThrustMe, Marble Imaging, and Reflex Aerospace have formed a strategic, three-way partnership for an in-orbit demonstration (IOD) of the JPT150, the world’s first low-power, iodine, Hall thruster system. The propulsion system will be integrated into MIRI, a high-performance Earth Observation ...

GomSpace has drawn down 6 million euros (SEK ~67 million) under the second tranche (“Tranche B”) of the 18 million euros shareholder credit facility established with Peter Kendal Hargreaves, the company’s main shareholder. The drawdown is being executed today, July ...

Space Forge launched and confirmed on-orbit communication with ForgeStar®-1, the UK’s first in-space manufacturing satellite, developed entirely in Wales. The launch marks a major breakthrough for British-built space hardware and the next chapter in space-based industrial capability. This is the ...

On July 25, 2025, Arianespace will place into orbit Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites, as well as the CNES’s MicroCarb satellite, with a Vega C rocket. The CO3D mission is a constellation (Constellation Optique en 3D) composed of four ...

Image is courtesy of ESA AAC Clyde Space has won an order worth 0.12 million euros (approx. SEK 1.3 million) from University College Dublin for a mission study in the first phase of the development program COMCUBE-S. The study will ...

EnduroSat has closed €43 million investment round led by Founders Fund—this significant funding round also included participation from CEECAT Capital, Morphosis Capital and other returning investors, highlighting the strong confidence in EnduroSat’s vision and capabilities. The new Endurance Gen3 satellite ...

SFL Missions Inc. is continuing the development of barrier-breaking, budget-aggressive, small satellite missions for commercial, government and academic customers worldwide by building upon the extraordinary legacy of Space Flight Laboratory (SFL). This evolution of customer-oriented service expands upon SFL’s 26-year ...

Creotech Instruments SA has signed the largest contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), a landmark 52 million euros contract for the CAMILA (Country Awareness Mission in Land Analysis) satellite constellation. Under the contract, Creotech Instruments will provide a national ...

Screenshot Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing [NYSE: BA] company, completed the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) CDR in just 10 months after authorization to proceed with the project. FOO Fighter will demonstrate advanced missile defense capability by incorporating fire ...

Aitech has introduced the picosatellite (PicoSat) constellation platform, IQSat™. The IQSat is AI-enabled and includes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI) ML) from Intuidex, Inc. incorporated in Intuidex’s Watchman for Space™ (W4S™) product for detecting and providing insight on patterns ...

SpinLaunch has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics (‘KONGSBERG’) as its exclusive satellite supplier for their LEO broadband communication constellation, Meridian Space—the parties have signed a contract for the delivery of 280 of these smallsats, worth 122.5 million euros. The Meridian Space constellation is taking ...

Varda Space Industries has announced the successful launch of the company's second orbital processing spacecraft and re-entry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The W-2 capsule will ...

Artistic rendition of Space42's Thuraya 4 satellite on-orbit. Space42 is the newly-established combination of Abu Dhabi’s Al Yah (YahSat) and Bayanat AI, which operates the Thuraya fleet of satellites. Its latest, Thuraya 4, was launched on January 3rd into its ...

SIIS Co., Ltd. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pixxel, a U.S.-India-based space technology company that is building the world's highest-resolution hyperspectral satellite constellation, to supply hyperspectral satellite data in Korea. Pixxel’s hyperspectral data offers far greater spectral ...

The third voyage of the RSV 421 to the icy continent started late last year from the Port of Varna. Thanks to the lab, the crew will be able to receive images from EnduroSat satellites. The Bulgarian research ship “Sv ...