Blue Origin completes 25th mission to space with six crew onboard
Blue Origin has now successfully completed their seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed ...
UPDATE Boeing, ULA and NASA team up for Starliner’s “closeout processes and flight rationale” to launch astronauts on May 25
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad illuminated by spotlights at Space Launch Complex 41 on Sunday, May 5, 2024. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky New information in the process ...
HyImpulse launches the SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range
Photo of the SR75 rocket launch, courtesy of the companies. HyImpulse successfully launched their SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range, Australia, in a milestone achievement for commercial launch capabilities in Australia. The SR75 rocket is one of the ...
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Exolaunch announces contract with Sateliot for Launch + Deployment services
Exolaunch has engaged in a new launch and deployment services agreement with Sateliot, the first company to operate a LEO 5G NB-IoT satellite constellation — this agreement marks the first collaboration between the two companies. Sateliot operates within the 3GPP ...
Astrobotic awarded NASA JPL Commercial Service Studies to enable future missions to Mars
Screenshot Astrobotic has been selected by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program for two concept studies of commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to Mars — the company will examine how potential commercial services, both payload delivery and surface imaging, could ...
Airbus delivers 1st active antenna of the SpainSat NG-I satellite
Acceptance testing of the active transmit antenna for Hisdesat's SpainSat NG-I satellite has been successfully completed following the final radiation pattern tests — the antenna is being integrated onto the satellite at the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France and, once ...
Myriota launches rapidly deployable satIoT hardware
Myriota has launched Myriota FlexSense, the fastest deployable, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), IoT hardware — the device is designed with advanced Bluetooth Low Energy and multi-sensor capabilities and is enabled by Myriota’s low-power satellite connectivity. With capacity for four AA batteries, ...
Terran Orbital joins the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA)
Screenshot Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has joined the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA), an industry effort to advance the development of Direct-to-Device (D2D) and IoT connectivity through an ecosystem of Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) providers that are committed to seamlessly ...
WISeKey’s WISeSat.Space satellite scheduled to launch in Q3 of 2024
WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY) has announced that, through its subsidiary WISeSat AG, their focus is on space technology for secure SATCOM, specifically for IoT applications, and is developing constellations that are aimed at climate change monitoring ...
NASA awards contracts for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition services
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like StarThis NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system. NASA has selected four companies to provide spacecraft and related services, including acquiring spacecraft components and equipment, in support of NASA’s Goddard ...
Pasqal + Thales solve satellite planning challenges with neutral-atom quantum computing
Screenshot Pasqal, in partnership with Thales, have revealed a major advancement within the AQUAPS project that aims to explore neutral atom architectures to solve optimization problems, with a particular focus on satellite planning. Screenshot For the past three years, the teams ...
DISH TV + Hughes debut 1st bundled service offering to enhance connectivity
DISH Network and Hughes Network Systems, both EchoStar companies (Nasdaq: SATS), have introduced a new bundled service offering that brings the power of DISH satellite TV together with Hughesnet® satellite internet to create a superior solution in TV and internet for rural ...
Microchip expands radiation-tolerant microcontroller portfolio for aerospace + defense markets
Screenshot Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has announced their SAMD21RT, a radiation-tolerant (RT) Arm® Cortex®-M0+ based 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) in a 64-pin ceramic and plastic package with 128 KB Flash and 16 KB SRAM. Designed for space-constrained applications, where size and ...