Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) provider of satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announces their SmallSat GEO™ solution for satellites above 500kg. for the geosynchronous orbit (GEO) […]
Spacecraft
Viasat selects Rocket Lab to provide on-demand, low-latency data relay services for LEO satellites
Viasat’s selection of Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) will support Viasat’s hybrid space communications networks demonstrations by producing a spacecraft bus and providing mission operation support. The demonstrations will […]
Lonestar launches Independence their first lunar data center test mission payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 enroute to the Moon
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. successfully launched its advanced lunar data center test mission, “Independence,” which began its voyage to the Moon as a customer payload with Intuitive Machines aboard their […]
BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace
From BAE Systems Further to the announcement of 17 August 2023, BAE Systems has now received the necessary regulatory approvals and will be executing steps in the coming days to […]
Russia’s Progress MS-25 resupply ship launches to space station
BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, December 1. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-25 resupply ship blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport to the International Space Station (ISS), a TASS […]
Russian Progress MS-25 (86P) Soyuz 2.1a launch on Friday
Russia’s Progress MS-25 is an uncrewed spacecraft that will deliver 1,535 kg of resource equipment and tools, experiment setups, clothing, and provisions for the ISS crew. Additionally Progress will carry propellant […]
Thales Alenia Space to provide transponder for Turkey’s 1st lunar mission
Thales Alenia Space (joint venture between Thales, 67%, and Leonardo, 33%) has signed a contract with TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY) to provide a Communication Transponder for AYAP-1, […]
KYOCERA AVX provided key components for the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission
KYOCERA AVX provided several key components for the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO’s) historic Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission [video]. On August 23, 2023, the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Vikram lander cemented India’s status […]
ESA: Exoplanet surveyor Ariel passes PDR
Ariel, ESA’s nexgen mission to observe the chemical makeup of distant exoplanets, has passed a major milestone after successfully completing its payload Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The successful completion of […]
Warpspace is NEDO’s “SBIR Program” for FY2023
Warpspace‘s proposal, “Development of a modem and router to realize a multi-protocol platform for optical communications in space,” has been selected by the National Research and Development Agency New Energy […]