Tag: Ground
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LeoStella and Hera Systems Announce Strategic Manufacturing Alliance
Focused on revolutionizing satellite manufacturing and diversifying customers’ choices for multi-satellite solicitations, smallsat experts LeoStella and Hera Systems have announced a strategic manufacturing alliance. This collaboration will mitigate supply chain risks, increase the reliability of production and delivery schedules, and maintain competitive pricing for small satellite constellations. LeoStella, a small satellite manufacturing company transforming constellation…
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Exotrail to Provide Electric Propulsion Systems for Muon Space’s Climate Constellation
Muon Space, a climate satellite company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, has selected Exotrail, the end-to-end space mobility solutions provider, to supply five of its spaceware electric propulsion systems to propel the next generation of its ESPA-class spacecraft currently in development at Muon Space’s manufacturing facility in Mountain View, California. These units…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Mission Successfully Launches to the International Space Station
An international crew of four representing four countries is in orbit following a successful launch to the International Space Station at 3:27 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 26, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for NASA. A SpaceX Falcon…
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ESA’s Proba-3 Precision Formation Flying Mission Relies on Cutting-Edge Sensor Fusion
Proba-3 is the European Space Agency’s and the world’s first precision formation flying mission. The mission is devoted to the demonstration of technologies and techniques for highly precise satellite formation flying. It consists of two small satellites launched together that will separate apart to fly in tandem, to prepare for future multi-satellite missions flying as…
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Sedaro Awarded $1.5 Million AFRL Contract to Develop Enhanced ISAM Modeling Capabilities
Sedaro has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) through the AFWERX technology directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop enhanced In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities in the Sedaro platform. Sedaro is receiving $1.5M for the STTR Phase II effort. Sedaro will be teaming with research institutions Space…
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ESA’s Spacecraft for Asteroid Mission Successfully Assembled
ESA’s asteroid mission for planetary defense was built and prepared in two halves, but now, through a painstaking operation, they have been mated together to make a single spacecraft, ready for full-scale testing of its readiness for space. The mating took place at OHB Bremen in Germany, with Hera’s Core Module raised more than 3…
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Venus Flyby of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sets Course for Record-Setting Flights Around the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month. Moving approximately 15 miles (more than 24 kilometers) per second, Parker Solar Probe passed 2,487 miles (4,003 kilometers) above the Venusian surface as it curved around…
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Sivers Receives $5 Million Order for Beamforming ICs from European SATCOM Customer
Sivers Semiconductors AB subsidiary Sivers Wireless has received a $5M volume production order from its leading European SATCOM customer. The production order is for beamforming integrated circuits (BFIC) which will be delivered during the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. Most of the income will be revenue recognized during the same…
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ISRO Announces the Successful Soft Landing of Chandrayaan-3 on Moon’s Surface
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced the successful landing of its Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module on the surface of the Moon. The soft landing marked India’s pursuit of space exploration which reached a remarkable milestone with India becoming the fourth country to land on the moon and the first on the south pole, with Chandrayaan-3…
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ClearSpace-1 Debris Removal Mission Target Struck by New Space Debris
On 10 August 2023, ESA’s Space Debris Office was informed by the United States 18th Space Defense Squadron that new objects had been detected in the vicinity of a payload adapter. This adapter, named VESPA, was left in orbit following the 2013 launch of a Vega rocket from ESA’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The…