NorthStar Earth & Space recently secured shareholder financing, led by Telesystem Space, which is a joint venture between Telesystem and the Rogers private companies. This financing will enable NorthStar to […]
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Update 1: Rocket Lab has delayed the launch the NorthStar SSA mission
UPDATE 1: The mission is now scheduled to launch no earlier than January 27 between 19:15-20:00 NZT (January 27 between 06:15-07:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New […]
AFRL’s Oracle systems family developing nation’s 1st cislunar SSA capabilities
Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) unveiled two programs — Defense Deep Space Sentinel (D2S2) and Oracle to develop cislunar space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities. […]
General Atomics receives Advanced Space contract for AFRL cislunar spacecraft
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is now under contract to Advanced Space LLC to build an ESPA-Grande class satellite, perform payload integration, and space vehicle test for the Air Force […]
U.S. Department awards contracts for space traffic coordination pilot project
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s NOAA took a step forward in the agency’s plans to provide space traffic coordination services to commercial and civil satellite operators operating in the increasingly […]
Virgin Orbit signs an agreement with Luxembourg to advance space capabilities across Europe
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and the Luxembourg Minister of Defence have signed a Letter of Intent that will start the process toward developing responsive space capabilities inclusive of mobile launch […]
U.S. regulatory approval for smallsat company Turion Space to sell SSA services
Turion Space has secured U.S. regulatory approval to sell space situational awareness (SSA) services from their first satellite that is scheduled to lauch next year. SpaceX is slated to fly […]
Benchmark Space Systems intends to keep popular orbits safer with their new Collision Avoidance Kit (CoLA)
With the most popular, revenue-generating orbits increasingly congested, Benchmark Space Systems has unveiled a breakthrough Collision Avoidance (ColA) Kit, featuring the firm’s heritage propulsion technology in a condensed package that […]
Dual acquisitions by Slingshot Aerospace include Numerica’s Space Division + UK-based Seradata
Slingshot Aerospace’s dual acquisitions transform spaceflight safety and sustainability for satellite operators at a time of unprecedented and growing risk on-orbit. The acquisition of Numerica Corporation’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) […]
GMV is leading automated collision avoidance operations and coordination in Europe
Space is getting congested and today active collision avoidance has become a routine task in space operations and relies on validated, accurate and timely space surveillance data. For a typical […]