Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) launched a CubeSat in support of ARCSTONE, a NASA mission to measure lunar spectral reflectance, or the way sunlight is reflected back from the […]
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First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument
Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite — the […]
BAE Systems wins 2023 Group Achievement Award for work on the TEMPO instrument
BAE Systems has received a NASA Group Achievement Award at the NASA Langley Research Center 2023 Honor Awards Ceremony in Hampton, Virginia, that recognizes the team for their exemplary work […]
Rocket Lab launches first of two NASA climate change satellites
“Today we successfully launched the first of two back-to-back launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) climate change-focused mission.” The following announcements are from both Rocket […]
BAE Systems’ MethaneSAT launched
BAE Systems has successfully launched their MethaneSAT satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California via a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The satellite will provide the public with reliable […]
Thales Alenia Space selects the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility for FLEX satellite 1st test
Thales Alenia Space, a joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has selected the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF), at RAL Space in Oxfordshire, for the first comprehensive assembly, […]
Milestone reached for MTG-S1
Following on from the launch of the first Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite, MTG-I1, last December, the European Space Agency (ESA) focus is now on getting its partner satellite, MTG-S1, […]
Advanced XCAM X-ray camera system from XCAM Ltd ready for sub-orbital space launch
XCAM Ltd. has delivered an advanced digital camera to Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in the USA as part of a multi-million-dollar NASA space technology project that will see the system […]
Airbus delivers the 1st Sentinel-4 air-monitoring instrument to ESA
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA) — this instrument will be […]
Thales Alenia Space to start MicroCarb’s instrument integration … a first for Europe’s atmospheric carbon monitoring mission
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has completed the assembly, integration and testing (AIT) of the MicroCarb satellite platform, and is now ready to […]