Tag: Ground
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Thales Alenia Space, Airbus and RADMOR Partner for Poland’s Sovereign Satellite
Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) and RADMOR, announced the signing of an industrial cooperation agreement to develop a geostationary defence telecommunications satellite dedicated to the Polish Ministry of Defence. The announcement was made during a ceremony attended by Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, and…
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MBRYONICS Expands Customer Base and Manufacturing Facilities to Meet Growing Demand
MBRYONICS has been expanding its partner and customer ecosystem and has recently been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for in-orbit demonstration activities in a team led by Kepler Communications. The €18.6M award is under Element 3 of the High-throughput Optical Network (HydRON) program, a project under ESA’s Optical and Quantum Communications – ScyLight…
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CACI International Secures $231 Million Contract to Support US Special Operations Command
CACI International Inc announced that it has been awarded a base year technology task order with four option years valued at up to $231 million, continuing nearly two decades of service to the U.S. Special Operations Command. CACI will deliver accurate, near-real-time satellite communications support, providing program visibility to the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC)…
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MDA Space Selected by Airbus for OneWeb Antenna Program
MDA Space Ltd., a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, has been selected by Airbus to design and build more than 880 Ka-band steerable antennas and 440 Ku-band user replacement antennas for the OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation owned by the global operator Eutelsat. This award…
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Opterus Secures NASA SBIR Contract for Solar Sail Deployment System
Opterus has received a $10.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract from NASA to provide the structural deployment system for the agency’s next solar sail spacecraft. Opterus is developing a system to deploy and control a 1,600-square-meter sail, roughly the size of a hockey rink, using four 30-meter composite booms and integrated…
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SES and Boeing Advance Line-Fit Integration for Multi-Orbit Connectivity
SES, a leading space solutions company, announced a milestone toward offerability for SES’ multi-orbit antenna for installation by Boeing. This will allow airlines to receive new aircraft with the onboard network in place and connectivity service available immediately after delivery through a Boeing-provided modification. Through this collaboration, Boeing will install the SES in-cabin hardware network…
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Impulse Space Advances Orbital Operations with Mira High-Thrust Maneuverable Spacecraft
Impulse Space is expanding the spacecraft portfolio with Mira, a high-performance, maneuverable spacecraft designed to support payload hosting, deployment and dynamic orbital operations across multiple orbital regimes. Engineered for flexibility and responsiveness, Mira is built to enable missions that require precise maneuvering, rapid retasking and high delta-v performance in increasingly complex space environments. With a…
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Rhea Space Activity Raises $6 Million to Scale GPS-Free AutoNav
Rhea Space Activity (RSA), a leader in deep space GPS-denied navigation with the optical software “AutoNav,” announced the close of its ~$6 million Series A round to accelerate its growth and respond to demand for its GPS-independent navigation software from the U.S. and allied partner military/intelligence customers. Funding from Boston Global (BG) Space Tech Investors,…
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Simsbury Manufacturer Plays Critical Role in NASA’s Artemis II Crewed Lunar Mission
Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense (EBAD), which employs approximately 500 people in Simsbury, CT and 300 in Moorpark, CA has designed, manufactured, and rigorously tested mission-critical hardware supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission; the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years. Artemis II will carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby,…
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AST SpaceMobile Confirms Orbital Launch of BlueBird 7 Launch on New Glenn Vehicle
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, addresses orbital launch of BlueBird 7 on the New Glenn launch vehicle. During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the…