Launch service provider Rocket Factory Augsburg AG has successfully tested its entire engine with staged combustion over eight seconds. The test, which was conducted in Kiruna, Sweden, represents another important […]
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Advanced Manufacturing Facility For NASA’s Orion Missions Opened By Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has now opened their Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center that features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity […]
World’s First Portable Thermal Vacuum Testing System Released By Exobtics
Exobotics is launching the world’s first, portable, thermal vacuum testing system, the “XO-VAC‘.’ This Cornwall- and Cambridge-based space business has created the world’s first low-cost, portable thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing […]
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA): Successful Tests Of Their Full-Scale, Staged-Combustion Engine
Launch service provider Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has announced their successful firing-tests of the company’s full-scale, staged combustion engine. During the 2 second test, which was carried out in Kiruna […]
Final Testing + Integration Of The Viasat-3 Satellite Now Underway @ Boeing
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has announced that the first satellite in their ViaSat-3 global constellation, which will serve the Americas and the surrounding oceans regions, has reached a major milestone […]
C-COM Successfully Tests Their Ka-Band Phased Array Antenna With Anik F3 Sat
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI and OTCQB: CYSNF) has successfully tested the company’s electronically steerable phased array antenna over the Telesat Anik F3 satellite. These successful initial tests are […]
Knight Sky + Kratos Victoriously Demo Live SATCOM EMI Detection + Recovery
Knight Sky, LLC has partnered with Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. and have successfully demonstrated an integrated SATCOM capability that delivered rapid detection and recovery from an electromagnetic interference […]
Mesh Network Technology Will Spur a Huge Increase in Orbital Spy Satellites
Of the 2,797 operational satellites in orbit, only a few hundred are there for the purposes of spying. But their numbers are set to swell with the coming of satellite […]
New Quad Band Satellite Simulator Reveal From Atlantic Microwave
Atlantic Microwave Limited has launched a new Quad band Satellite Simulator designed to meet the rising demand for multiple RF frequency SATCOM testing at satellite Earth stations, providing loop-back testing […]
Team of Japanese Space Enthusiasts Set To Launch Selfie-Taking satellite
A miniature satellite capable of taking pictures of itself, developed as a passion project by company employees, students and others in Japan, is being launched in the United States during […]