Airbus has been selected by MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA) to supply solar arrays for MDA AURORA™, the software-defined satellite product line enabling constellations to extend communication networks to every corner of the […]
Solar Arrays
Rocket Lab ships twin satellites to launch site for NASA Mars mission
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has successfully packed and shipped two Mars-bound spacecraft to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in preparation for launch — these twin spacecraft for the Escape and Plasma Acceleration […]
Dcubed’s €4.4M in Series-A funding round will expand in-space manufacturing and open a Colorado office
Dcubed, a German NewSpace supplier, successfully closed its Series-A funding round that raised €4.4 million and exceeded expectations with a 26% oversubscription. The new funds will scale the production of […]
Sierra Space pioneers new dolar array drive assembly options
Sierra Space has announced two new complementary products to support the growing satellite market. A new Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA), with multiple options, and a new commercial variant of […]
Forrester’s Digest: German army orders €2.1 billion Airbus satellites
The European Commission wants to build a new satellite constellation called IRIS2. A consortium (SpaceRise) has submitted its best and final bid to secure the contract to build the highly-secure […]
Momentus + Ascent Solar Technologies partner to bring solar arrays to market
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) and Ascent Solar Technologies (Nasdaq: ASTI) recently engaged in a new partnership to jointly market solar arrays that use the low-cost, Tape Spring Solar Array (TASSA) […]
Ascent Solar Technologies to fly space solar modules on NASA’s upcoming LISA-T mission
Ascent Solar Technologies (Nasdaq: ASTI) has announced that the Company’s solar module products will fly on NASA’s upcoming Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and AnTenna (LISA-T) mission, scheduled for launch this […]
Beautiful day for a SpaceX launch in Florida as Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft heads to ISS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Jan. 30, 2024 – Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station today by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 […]
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 […]
Solestial awarded NASA SBIR Ignite contracts for nexgen solar array
Solestial, Inc. (“Solestial”) has been awarded $849,954 for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from NASA. The winning proposal titled, “Next Generation Silicon Based Solar Arrays for […]