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SBCs For JPL’s SunRISE Mission Delivered By Voyager Space’s Space Micro

May 17, 2022

Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space, recently delivered a total of seven (7), flight-level, Single Board Computers (SBCs) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of Pasadena, California, for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE). Slated for a 2024-2025 launch, SunRISE will collect data obtained by a smallsat array to help scientists better understand […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Business Moves, Contracts, Data Processing, SBC, SmallSat, Solar

ESA / NASA’s Solar Orbiter Crosses The Earth-Sun Line As It Heads For The Sun

March 8, 2022

The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft is speeding toward its historic first close pass of the Sun. On March 14, the spacecraft will pass the orbit of Mercury, the scorched inner planet of our Solar System, and on March 26 it will reach closest approach to the Sun. As of this writing, Solar Orbiter is crossing […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Data Acquisition, ESA, NASA, Solar Tagged With: Featured

Rocket Lab Completes Their Acquisition Of SolAero Holdings

January 18, 2022

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has closed the previously-announced transaction to acquire SolAero Holdings, Inc. (SolAero), a supplier of space solar power products and precision aerospace structures for the global aerospace market, for $80 million in cash. Rocket Lab announced the execution of the agreement to acquire SolAero on […]

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Business Moves, Manufacturing, Power Systems, Solar, Solar Cells

Ball Completes The PDR For NOAA’s SWFO-L1 Spacecraft… On To the Critical Design Phase

July 29, 2021

Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft — with the PDR completed, the spacecraft now moves into the critical design phase. Ball was awarded the contract to design and build the SWFO-L1 spacecraft on June 25, 2020, […]

Filed Under: PDR, Satellites, Solar, Space Tagged With: Featured

Refugees In Uganda Receive Connectivity From Avanti Communications and UNHCR

May 26, 2021

Avanti Communications (Avanti), has contributed technology to provide remote and off grid refugee settlements in Uganda with the delivery and installation of free solar powered satellite broadband connectivity and laptops to seven UNHCR, (the UN Refugee Agency) sites.ing its satellite technology to support refugees, host communities and humanitarian organizations in the region, through providing access […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Organizations, Solar

MMA Design’s HaWK Solar Arrays To Power NASA’s GEO Heliophysics Mission

May 12, 2021

MMA Design, under a contract with Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory, is providing High Watts per Kilogram (HaWK) solar arrays for six satellites that will be launched just beyond GEO on NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission. SunRISE will consist of six cubesats, each six units in size, just above GEO. These […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Contracts, SmallSat, Solar

Northrop Grumman Receives Contract From Airbus For OneSat Solar Arrays

May 3, 2021

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space for the design, development and production of 24 ship sets of solar arrays to support the OneSat satellite product line — these solar arrays will power the OneSat communication satellites in GEO. Northrop Grumman Solar Arrays to Power Airbus OneSat […]

Filed Under: Contracts, Satellites, Solar

RUAG Space + OHB To Deliver Sunshield Solar Array For ESA’s PLATO Planet Hunting Mission

March 10, 2021

Space supplier RUAG Space will deliver the Sunshield Solar Array Subsystem for the European “planet-hunting” mission PLATO. The “planet-hunting” mission PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a space-based observatory to find and study extrasolar planetary systems with emphasis on the properties of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone […]

Filed Under: Contracts, Manufacturing, Solar

Redwire Contracted By PlanetiQ For Smallsat Solar Arrays

March 9, 2021

Redwire has been selected by PlanetiQ to supply solar arrays for their HD GPS-RO weather satellites — the contract will include delivery of a 130-watt solar array for PlanetiQ’s spacecraft. This agreement marks PlanetiQ’s third flight contract for Redwire’s solar arrays. Previously, Redwire’s subsidiary Roccor delivered two sets of solar arrays to PlanetiQ, dating back […]

Filed Under: Contracts, GNSS, SmallSat, Solar

Redwire Acquires Deployable Space Systems

February 23, 2021

Redwire has acquired Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), a supplier of mission-enabling deployable solar arrays, structures and mechanisms for space applications — terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Goleta, California, DSS is a leading developer and provider of satellite mechanisms, deployable structures and booms and deployable solar array […]

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Analysis / Reports, Components, Manufacturing, Solar, Space

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