A release from AST SpaceMobile shared that BlueBird 6 has completed final assembly and testing and is ready for flight. On October 12, BlueBird 7 will head to India aboard […]
Solar Arrays
Redwire awarded contract for roll-out solar arrays for Axiom Space’s 1st space station module
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been awarded a contract from Axiom Space to develop and deliver roll-out solar array (ROSA) wings for Axiom Station’s Payload Power Thermal Module (AxPPTM)—the first […]
Solar Arrays Deploy as Cygnus XL Orbits Toward Station
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft deployed its two solar arrays after launching earlier Sunday at 6:11 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at […]
Solestial awarded $1.2M by SpaceWERX to develop smallsat multiorbital solar array wing
Solestial, Inc. (“Solestial”), the solar energy company for space, today announced that it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1.2 million dollars […]
Sidus Space’s next milestone, $120M with Lonestar + selects Atomic-6 to provide solar arrays for cislunar data satellite mission
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), an innovative space and defense technology provider, achieved the next milestone under its expanded $120 million preliminary agreement with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. to support the […]
Arianespace’s successful top secret launch for French military
The CSO-3 military observation satellite has been successfully launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane 6 from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. Carrying a very-high-resolution optical instrument built by Thales Alenia […]
LiveScience: China plans to build an enormous solar array in space
Chinese scientists have announced a plan to build an enormous, 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) wide solar power station in space that will beam continuous energy back to Earth via microwaves. […]
SpaceX sends off SiriusXM SXM-9 on Thursday from Kennedy
On Thursday, December 5 at 11:10 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the SiriusXM SXM-9 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
Forrester’s Digest: Telesat retires satellite to graveyard slot
Some 24 years ago Telesat’s Anik F1 was launched. It has now been retired to a safe ‘graveyard’ orbit a few hundred kilometers above the normal geostationary arc. When Canada’s […]
Airbus selected by MDA Space to deliver more than 200 Sparkwing solar arrays
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 […]