One of Lacuna’s early partners has been Sustainability Tech, a technology systems developer that focuses on tropical forest ecosystems in Southeast Asia. Sustainability Tech is working with Lacuna Space to produce new satellite-connected sensors that monitor wetland hydrology. These enable...
SAN FRANCISCO – Redwire acquired Roccor, a Longmont, Colorado company known for deployable spacecraft structures, and signaled its intention to continue expanding in an effort to become a leading space infrastructure company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Roccor...
November 5th, 2020In the past two months a team of students of The Hague University of Applied Sciences build a robot at our facility that automatically grades solar cells for solar panel production. Sorting solar cells is a time-consuming step...
The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space. ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens...
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), a Germany-based commercial launch service provider, is the first company to sign a contract for Boost! – ESA’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support program. RFA is receiving ESA support for a project volume...
From your connected devices all around the globe to the statistics computed on your computer, you won’t believe that your data have traveled so far! 1/5 – WHAT IS THE KINÉIS CONNECTIVITY? Kinéis finds its origins in the...
The Acroamatics Telemetry Data Processor (TDP) product line now offers Telemetry over IP (TMoIP) input capability. This advanced capability allows the TDP to be seamlessly integrated into your TMoIP environment, simplifying data distribution, and supporting the distribution of higher PCM data...
Harwell Campus, UK – NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, announced the successful launch of another Lacuna Space IoT satellite, and a third one being ready for launch at a later date. Operational communications with the...
NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has revealed the remaining three payloads of its ‘D-2/AtlaCom-1’ rideshare mission hosted on board its M6P 6U nanosatellite bus. The additional payloads, a camera for hyperspectral remote sensing, a new high-gain...
Adcole Space Coarse Sun Sensor Helps Keep NASA’s OSIRIS-REx on Course to Asteroid Bennu Adcole Space held its collective breath with NASA mission control on October 20th as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx successfully fulfilled its mission to collect dust and rock samples...
As part of the Artemis program, the MOWS project will contribute to NASA’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, while the Xogdor rocket will demonstrate closed-loop descent and landing capabilities. NASA and Masten Space Systems announced the selection of two Tipping Point...
  Rocket Factory Augsburg, a start-up backed by the German satellite manufacturer OHB as a strategic investor, inaugurated its test site in Esrange, Sweden to conduct the first hot fire tests for RFA ONE staged combustion main engine later...
Mission Control is thrilled to adapt its Mission Control Software (MCS) technology to a space health and life sciences application. The novel activity to design and develop a prototype real-time medical data transfer system for space health applications is...
International cooperation on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program is taking a step forward today with the signing of the Artemis Accords between NASA and several partner countries. The Artemis Accords establish a practical set...
NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has signed a contract with US-company Accion Systems to host their propulsion system, TILE 3, on-board its new rideshare mission for a demonstration flight in 2021. Accion Systems procured this flight...
SAN DIEGO, CA, October 12, 2020 – Innoflight announces that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 12-month contract to enhance and certify its secure “mesh” networking End Cryptographic Unit ECU-400 in support of ongoing and...
For several years we have presented papers and exhibited at the Annual Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium and Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) Workshop. With the 29th edition of SEE/MAPLD being a virtual event, we are proud...
A deployable CubeSat antenna using origami techniques was tested at Thales Alenia Space facilities in Toulouse, France. Operating at 30 GHz (Ka-band), the 41dB antenna is exceptionally small and light, weighting only 600 g and folding into a cylinder of...