Seasoned Team Leader Hails from Google Cloud, Skybox Imaging Contacts: Jon Coifman, (212) 616-1325, jcoifman@methanesat.org (SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 12, 2020) Software engineer Tom Melendez has joined MethaneSAT, where he will head the team developing a sophisticated data platform at the heart...
Originally published at Technology.orgWe are observing a considerable increase in the demand for satellite systems around the world. Various independent sources forecast that the nano- and microsatellite market will grow from $1.5 billion in 2019 to $3.6 billion in...
SteamJet announced a launch service agreement with Momentus (www.momentus.space), provider of in-space transportation services for satellites. It is our first technology demonstration mission for a reliable, compact, and available water-based propulsion system that will be launched from a Soyuz...
The Things Industries, a global LoRaWAN® network service provider, in partnership with Lacuna Space will be the first LoRaWAN operator to be routing LoRaWAN messages received by their space gateways for end users. This announcement was made earlier today at The Things...
CEDAR PARK, Texas, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Firefly Aerospace, Inc.(Firefly), a provider of economical and dependable launch vehicles, spacecraft and in-space services, announced today the execution of a Launch Services Agreement with SATLANTIS, a provider of high-performance payload...
Originally published at Spacenews.comSteamJet Space Systems is the latest customer to sign up for Momentus’ Vigoride space transportation service. Momentus announced plans at the SmallSat Symposium here to deploy a SteamJet cubesat on its Vigoride demonstration mission scheduled to launch later...
ATLANTA, Georgia – A team of Generation Orbit (GO) engineers and technicians has returned from Cecil Spaceport in Jacksonville, Florida, following successful completion of an integrated vehicle propulsion system verification ground test campaign for the X-60A program. The ground test...

New ESA Project DRAC

LSS has been awarded the project DRAC (Deployable Reflector Antenna for CubeSat). The objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate 1m to 3m diameter deployable reflector antennas for CubeSat applications. Large Space Structures GmbH (LSS) is a company...
Today, I found out that Bob Cringely has been working on a space startup that will launch CubeSats to orbit using a rapid turnaround method. The details (as such) can be found at his web site, cringely.com. If you need...
In November 2019 we successfully launched the data package that was destined for the Discovery satellite. Alba Orbital was kind enough to carry the chip in their hardware for Mini-Cubes. The neat thing is that you can track the...
CEDAR PARK, Texas, Jan. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Firefly Aerospace, Inc.(Firefly), a provider of economical and dependable launch vehicles, spacecraft and in-space services, announced today the execution of a Launch Services Agreement with Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILAUNCH), a...
By Payam Banazadeh, Founder and CEO Our Vision for Ubiquitous DataAt Capella Space, we have a mission: To deliver hourly monitoring of any place on Earth, day and night, regardless of weather or environmental conditions. We launched the...
Artist impression of Capella SAR satellite. Background image courtesy NASA. Enhanced technology package meets customer demand for timely, flexible and frequent very high resolution SAR imagery SAN FRANCISCO, January 21, 2020 — Capella Space, an information services...
Citadel Space Systems to partner with Applied Ion Systems to develop revolutionary new electric propulsion and nanosatellite technology Oxfordshire, UK – 20th Jan 2020 – Citadel Space Systems Ltd (CSS) announced today that it has formalised a collaborative agreement with US-based Applied Ion...
JANUARY 2020 – Having been awarded the contract to support the launch and early orbit phase (LEOP) of ESA’s new OPS-SAT cubesat, Leaf Space has been successfully supporting the mission’s ground segment with its ground station network since launch...
Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK, 14th January 2020 – The first-ever plant-powered sensor has successfully transmitted to a satellite in space. The pilot service, using plants as the energy source, has been developed by Plant-e and Lacuna Space. Because the sensor...
SATLANTIS’ CEO, Juan Tomas Hernani, took part in the round-table titled “Converging European Defence Initiatives for Space”, during the 12th European Space Conference held in Brussels on January 21st and 22nd, 2020, together with distinguished representatives of European Institutions...
This free-to-attend exhibition will showcase the very latest technology for the designing, manufacturing and testing of spacecraft, satellite, launch vehicle and space-related technologies, bringing together engineers, systems integrators, contractors and suppliers in commercial, government and military space. “It’s...