For more than a decade, RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies’, high-precision, advanced solutions have disrupted the space industry by demonstrating how lower-cost smallsats serve […]
VLEO
Terran Orbital’s Tyvak International secures European Defense Agency contract for pioneering VLEO satellite project
Tyvak International SRL, a Torino, Italy-based subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) and a leading European provider of nano and microsatellites, has announced a secured service subcontract for the […]
Orbit Fab’s new Chief Operating Officer will ramp up production and testing for RAFTI™ refueling port
Orbit Fab, provider of on-orbit refueling services, recently announced it has named industry veteran Shawn Hendricks as the company’s first Chief Operating Officer. Hendricks will lead the ramp up of […]
Hypernova to demo electric propulsion tech in-orbit via EnduroSat’s Space Service
Hypernova will validate its proprietary, plasma electric propulsion system on-orbit on EnduroSat’s Platform-2 — the launch is scheduled for December of 2022 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-6 mission. With support […]
Spire Global receives DARPA contract to design a VLEO smallsat for in-situ ionosphere data capture
Spire Global, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to deliver a preliminary design for a satellite that would carry an array of […]
Thales Alenia Space + QinetiQ to pave the way for multi-mission smallsats in VLEO
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and QinetiQ have signed a study contract with the European Space Agency to pave the way for multi-mission […]
Thales Alenia Space and QinetiQ introduce small multi-mission satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit
A<300km) satellite that aims to significantly reduce the cost of Earth observation while increasing performance by operating at substantially lower altitudes. Thales Alenia Space and QinetiQ have signed a study […]
DARPA’s Ouija Program Solicitation Aims To Quantify HF Noise + Improve Characterization Of The Ionosphere To Support Warfighter Capabilities
Warfighters depend on high-frequency (HF) radio transmissions to operate military systems across the space, air, ground and maritime domains. Current understanding of how HF waves propagate through the electromagnetically noisy […]
U.S. Air Force Research Lab Awards Million$ To Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate awarded an $8.4 million contract to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. to support the directorate’s Precise flight experiment projected for launch in […]