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LEO satellite cluster from BAE Systems to provide secure digital military intelligence from 2024
BAE Systems is set to launch its first multi-sensor satellite cluster into LEO in 2024 to deliver high-quality information and intelligence — in real time — from space to military customers. Known as Azalea™, the group of satellites will use ...
SWOT satellite making final launch preparations
Photo of the SWOT satellite @ Thales Alenia Space. Photo is courtesy of the company. After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space agencies ...
Blue Canyon Technologies + SEAKR Engineering deliver 1st flight unit + payloads for the DARPA Blackjack Program
Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC, and SEAKR Engineering, LLC, wholly owned subsidiaries of Raytheon Technologies, have announced that they have delivered one, Saturn-class, microsat bus and have also completed acceptance testing of the first two of 12, Pit Boss Battle Management ...
SpaceX launches another 51 Starlinks to orbit aboard a Falcon 9
to orbit On Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Artistic ...
UPDATE 4: Another delay for Artemis due to fuel leakage
UPDATE 4 Another delay, September 3, has prevented the Artemis launch. However all was bright as earlier this Saturday morning the NASA launch director called a “go” for propellant loading, and NASA engineers were able to successfully start running liquid ...
Thales Alenia Space + Eutelsat partner to deliver high-speed b’band across Europe with the EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satellite
Artistic rendition of the EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satellite on-orbit, courtesy of Thales Group. Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) will support the delivery of high-speed broadband across Europe as well as connectivity services by providing the SpaceGate ground connectivity ...
SpaceX’s 46 Starlinks successfully launched from Falcon 9
On Tuesday, August 30 at 10:40 p.m. PT, SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the seventh flight for this Falcon 9 ...
UPDATE 1: Blue Origin’s NS-23 mission is scrubbed
Photo of the New Shepard crew capsule descending under parachutes in the West Texas desert on January 23, 2019 (NS-10). Image is courtesy of Blue Origin. UPDATE 1 Weather has proven to be the undoing of the Blue Origin NS-23 ...
Maritime Launch Services initiates construction of Spaceport Nova Scotia, Canada
Nova Scotia, Canada, is a step closer to becoming a global destination for commercial space launch, as Maritime Launch Services (Nova Scotia) Ltd. has been approved to start construction of Spaceport Nova Scotia, Canada’s first commercial spaceport. “This is historic ...
Alba Orbital + SAB coordinate the first European launch of PocketQube satellites on board a Vega rocket + as well as six pico-satellite deployers
Alba Orbital's AlbaPod smallsat deployers. Alba Orbital Inc. and SAB Launch Services S.r.l. (SAB LS) have signed an agreement to fly six AlbaPod pico-satellite deployers, and respective PocketQubes, on Arianespace Vega missions VV25 and VV26. This agreement facilitates the first ...
SpaceX invites the world’s cell phone carries to collaborate for universal connectivity
SpaceX’s Chief Engineer Elon Musk and T-Mobile’s CEO and President Mike Sievert have announced a plan to provide truly universal cellular connectivity. T-Mobile President Mike Sievert (l) and SpaceX's Elon Musk at their announcement event. In spite of powerful LTE ...
Webinar: The challenges + opportunities in delivering sat5G
Constellations of 5G satellites are set to play a vital role in completing the technology and connectivity ecosystem addressing critical connectivity challenges, such as data speed and coverage limitations as well fulfilling the needs of a wide range of emerging ...
Synspective develops a “Slope Instability Detection Feature” for predictive changes + pre-disaster ground deformation with SAR data analysis
Synspective develops and operates Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites and provides solutions based on satellite data analysis. The company developed a ground deformation analysis device and method with a slope instability detection feature that identifies predictive changes of landslides and ...
Boeing delivers SES 20 + 21 satellites to Cape Canaveral for ULA launch
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has delivered two satellites for SES to the firm's launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of the upcoming launch of the twin spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The pair of all-electric ...
SpaceLink selected by DARPA for the agency’s Proliferated Space Domain program
SpaceLink has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award — the company will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program designed to connect the proliferated space domain ...
Hosted payload agreement signed by Momentus with LuxSpace
Artistic rendition of Momentus' Vigoride OTV, courtesy of the company. Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) ("Momentus" or the "Company") has entered into a service agreement with LuxSpace. LuxSpace, a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of German headquartered satellite manufacturer OHB, will fly their Triton-X ...
OTA demo of digital interface for data transmission to satellite successfully conducted via collaboration of AvL Technologies, Datum Systems + Wavestream
Photo of the transmit and receive terminals, courtesy of AvL Technologies.. Recently, AvL Technologies (AvL), Datum Systems and Wavestream successfully collaborated on an over-the-air, digital interface demonstration. The purpose of the demo was to engage a digital interface modem/BUC pair ...
Orion Space Solutions to lead the USSF’s Tetra-5 mission
U.S. Space Force (USSF) has awarded Orion Space Solutions (OSS) a contract to develop three spacecraft in support of USSF’s mission to advance and launch new technologies in space. Working with partners Hera Systems, Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and ...
HawkEye 360’s Clusters 4 + 5 smallsats have initiated in-space ops
HawkEye 360 Inc. recently announced their Clusters 4 and 5 satellites have started operations — these two, newest clusters have doubled on-orbit capacity to empower customers with actionable, global insights. The expanded constellation can collect over a region of interest ...
Eutelsat’s software-defined satellite enters commercial service
Artistic rendition of Eutelsat's Quantum satellite, courtesy of the ESA. Europe’s first commercial satellite capable of being completely reprogrammed while in space is now in commercial use. Satellite operator Eutelsat has sold six of its eight beams – used for ...




















