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The Italian company Leaf Space, a startup operating in the New Space economy, has signed an important agreement with Long Beach, California-based Virgin Orbit for receiving telemetry data during the test flight of LauncherOne, the innovative air-launched system for...
Polarmetric SAR image (channels: HH HV VV) of California’s San Francisco Bay Area, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (February 18, 2009) Very high resolution technology and on-demand SAR data drove multi-million dollar deals with the U.S. federal government and diverse...
Thrilled to announce TAI just completed another set of Graphite Fiber Thermal Straps (GFTS®), destined for NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Satellite, scheduled for launch in November 2020. The TAI team just finished assembly and testing on these units,...

Discovery is Grounded

Time for one of those good news/bad news posts. The bad news is that Discovery PocketQube is not going on the RocketLab flight as planned. The good news is that all of the images, books, videos, etc are still flying. So what...
Lacuna Space, a provider for connectivity everywhere, and Miromico, a global leader for the design and production of wireless products for the Internet of Things (IoT), have signed a collaboration agreement for the development and easy provision of ‘space...
The GNSS antennas calibration environment developed by Astri Polska and Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn, Poland (UWM Olsztyn) granted a green light from the European Space Agency to proceed with the integration of the entire system. At the...
3D printed by AMCM (An EOS Group Company) in Copper Alloy on AMCM's M4K machine, it is the world's largest liquid rocket engine combustion chamber 3D printed in a single part. The combustion chamber is 34in (86cm) tall with...
Alpha Data have demonstrated real world bifurcated (2x) Gen4x8 PCIe performance between AMD Ryzen 5-3600 CPU and Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+™ VU37P HBM FPGA, using the ADM-PCIE-9H7 FPGA Accelerator Card on the ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE Motherboard. Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600...
SAN FRANCISCO – Launcher won its first government funding when the U.S. Air Force awarded the Brooklyn-based startup $1.5 million to accelerate the development and testing of its E-2 rocket engine. Launcher announced the Air Force funding on Nov. 13....
(SAN FRANCISCO – November 6, 2019) The government of New Zealand today announced that it will contribute $16 million to MethaneSAT, a unique non-profit satellite mission created to help speed the reduction of potent greenhouse gas emissions. In addition...
OCE has released a new version of DMON which offers the following new features: Fast multi-core source level debugging using Eclipse TCF protocolDMON now supports Eclipse Target Communications Framework (TCF) for source level debugging. TCF is a faster and more...
Last Thursday, NASA invited media to the launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The news release included a launch date for the mission: December 17. The uncrewed test flight will validate the in-flight capabilities of the...
Tabuk province in Saudi Arabia is famous among Remote Sensing specialists because it has an amazing view of irrigated fields surrounded by the deserted territory. Primarily it happens because of just 1935 mm annual precipitation.This is the image of...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aerojet Rocketdyne and Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Firefly) are pleased to announce a cooperative agreement that combines the capabilities of both companies to provide flexible, sustainable and highly competitive...
Global connectivity provider Lacuna Space and IRNAS, an innovation lab for hardware and IoT products, have signed a collaboration agreement to design, develop and test IoT devices that use LoRaWAN®. The IoT devices enable users to acquire valuable information...
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Leaf Space is proud to announce it partnership with GOMSpace, flagship NewSpace manufacturer and operator, with the signing of an MoU. The MoU focuses on the following points of development: Leaf Space has integrated GomSpace transceivers in...

First Vacuum Chamber Tests

We have finally installed a vacuum chamber that can drop the pressure to 2,500 mTorr (we can go to 500 mTorr) if we need it. That pressure is pretty close to what Discovery will experience in space. I ran...