Tag: Satellite
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AST SpaceMobile’s First Five Bluebird Satellites Completes Final Assembly
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, announced the successful completion of its first five commercial satellites, called Bluebirds. Each satellite has communications arrays measuring 693 square feet and are now ready for shipment to Cape Canaveral…
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Terran Orbital Receives Certificate of Occupancy for its New Space Vehicle Assembly Facility
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced that on July 15, 2024, it received the certificate of occupancy for its previously announced new assembly facility, located at 4 Goodyear in Irvine, California. The facility spans 94,000 square feet and is situated on a…
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Star Catcher Secures $12.25 Million in Funding for its Space-Based Energy Grid
Star Catcher Industries, the pioneer in space-based energy generation, announced the closing of its $12.25M seed round. Initialized Capital and B Capital co-led the round, with meaningful participation from Rogue VC. With this funding, the Company is positioned to help eliminate power constraints on space operations through the construction of its Star Catcher Network, the…
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Rocket Lab Prepares for the Launch of Synspective’s Latest SAR Satellites
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for its 51st Electron launch, a mission that will launch the latest satellite in a constellation being built by its long-standing customer Synspective. The “Owl for One, One for Owl” mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket…
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NASA Successfully Streams First 4K Video Footage from Aircraft to Space Station
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International Space Station and back for the first time using optical, or laser, communications. The feat was part of a series of tests on new technology that could provide live video coverage of astronauts on the Moon…
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ESA’s Sentinel-2C Satellite Arrives at European Spaceport for Liftoff on Final Vega Rocket
The Sentinel-2C satellite, the third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, has arrived at the European spaceport in French Guiana for liftoff on the final Vega rocket in September. Sentinel-2C, like its predecessors, will continue to provide high-quality data for Copernicus – the Earth observation component of the EU Space Program. After road transportation from the Airbus facilities…
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Morpheus Space Opens New Mass Production Facility for Space Systems in Dresden, Germany
Morpheus Space, one of the leading providers of space mobility solutions, opened the first mass production facility for space systems in Dresden, Germany. The new “Reloaded” facility will initially manufacture 100 units of the GO-2 per year, Morpheus Space’s second-generation electric propulsion system aimed at addressing the urgent demand for mobility by the rising number of…
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Orbex Establishes New London Base and Expands Headquarters in Scotland
Orbex, one of the leading orbital launch services companies, is to set up a base in London while also expanding its headquarters in Scotland. Orbex will become the first UK rocket manufacturer to establish a base in London. The new office will enable Orbex to connect with London’s financial communities with greater ease while growing…
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Frontgrade’s 2 Gbit Dual Quad SPI MRAM Achieves NASA’s Space-Flight Qualification
Frontgrade Technologies, one of the leading providers of mission critical electronics for aerospace and defense, announced that its high-density 2Gbit Dual Quad SPI Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) offering has successfully obtained flight-grade production through NASA’s PEM INST-001 Level 2 qualification standard for plastic-encapsulated microcircuits. This achievement further validates this new MRAM’s reliability and assurance as…
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SpiderOak in Collaboration with Axiom Space Demonstrates Rust Enabled OrbitSecure Platform on ISS
SpiderOak, one of the leaders in zero-trust space cybersecurity solutions, has announced the successful demonstration of their next generation OrbitSecure software module re-written in the memory safe programming language Rust with protocol design formally proven via the Alloy specification language on the International Space Station (ISS). This demonstrates key modern cybersecurity requirements called for by…