Tag: Ground
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MaiaSpace Gains Momentum with its Reusable Mini-Launcher
As the fall season arrives, MaiaSpace looks back on key milestones reached during this past summer. On July 26, 2023, the team at MaiaSpace successfully performed a cryogenic filling test of its full-scale Upper Stage qualification model. The test took place at ArianeGroup’s test facilities in Vernon. This second stage has been designed, built, and…
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Telesat and SpaceX Announce Multi-Launch Agreement for Telesat Lightspeed LEO Satellites
Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and SpaceX, which designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft, announced a multi-launch agreement to deliver the Telesat Lightspeed constellation to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Telesat has contracted 14 launches on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, the most reliable and only reusable…
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MDA Unveils its New Software-Defined Satellite Product Line at World Satellite Business Week
MDA, a provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, revealed at the World Satellite Business Week conference initial details about its new software-defined digital satellite product line as the market continues to transform from analog to digital software-defined satellites. “The satellite industry comes together at World Satellite Business Week…
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Dragonfly Aerospace Selects Neuraspace’s STM Platform for EOS SAT-1 Satellite
Dragonfly Aerospace, a commercial leader in satellite imaging technology, announced a strategic partnership with Neuraspace, a provider of smarter space traffic management (STM), to explore Neuraspace’s STM platform for space sustainability. Dragonfly Aerospace will be using the STM platform for its EOS SAT-1 satellite for conjunction analysis and receiving maneuver suggestions. EOS SAT-1 is the…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Alters Its Trajectory to Target Sample Capsule’s Landing Zone
On Sept. 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly fired its ACS (attitude control system) thrusters to point itself toward Earth, putting it on course to release its sample capsule, carrying rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, from 63,000 miles (or 102,000 kilometers) above Earth’s surface on Sept. 24. The trajectory-correction maneuver changed the spacecraft’s velocity by…
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Terran Orbital Opens 60,000 SF Satellite Manufacturing Factory in Irvine California
Terran Orbital announced the official opening of a new 60,000-square-foot satellite manufacturing space adding to its existing manufacturing capability. With this previously announced addition, the total size of the manufacturing complex in Irvine has expanded to approximately 98,000 square feet. This new addition enables Terran Orbital to significantly boost satellite production, increasing it from an…
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Viasat Awarded Contract by U.S. Space Force for PLEO Satellite Services
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, announced that Inmarsat Government, now part of Viasat, was awarded a Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services (SBS) contract by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on behalf of the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC). Inmarsat Government is one of 16…
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Terran Orbital Introduces Responsive Space Initiative Program
Terran Orbital announced the launch of the Responsive Space Initiative. Under this initiative, they are committed to providing customers with satellite buses within just 30 days and complete satellite systems with integrated payloads within 60 days. There are seven new satellite buses that will be participating in this program. The advanced production capabilities through the…
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Ball Aerospace Successfully Completes Testing on SSC’s Weather Monitoring Satellite
Ball Aerospace successfully concluded testing on the Weather System Follow–on–Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, representing the completion of the first of two satellites Ball is delivering for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command next-generation operational environmental satellite system. Once in orbit, WSF-M will provide the Department of Defense with critical data meant to fill gaps in…
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Relativity Space Signs Lease Agreement on NASA’s Historic Test Stand
Relativity Space, the preeminent 3D-printed rocket company, has signed an enhanced use lease agreement (EULA) on the vertical test stand at the A-2 complex within NASA’s historic Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. The agreement marks the first time a commercial tenant has modernized an underutilized legacy test stand at NASA Stennis, signifying the…