Tag: Commercial
The US Department of Defense's (DoD) top information officer, John Sherman, has called for greater cybersecurity measures to be implemented in commercial satellite systems. Speaking at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium in St Louis, Sherman said that as commercial companies...
The purpose of this questionnaire is to understand the current European space companies’ landscape in the Ground Segment and Operations Domain, collect their needs and barriers to commercial success, and investigate existing or future opportunities for ESA to support their...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded four contracts to Umbra, Terran Orbital’s PredaSAR unit, Northrop Grumman, and Jacobs to fly synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in formation. The aim is to demonstrate novel imagery collection techniques...
At the Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC) 2023 ESA has signed a letter of intent with Finnish company ICEYE OY to empower entrepreneurship and encourage the development of commercially viable and sustainability-minded space solutions. The collaboration falls...
As 2022 ended, our review of the individual company tickers that comprise the SpaceWorks NewSpace Index (NSI) revealed the emergence of two major groups heading in different directions. The Bluebirds were hitting their targets and inspiring investor confidence while...
Astroscale and Momentus have joined forces to propose a mission to reboost the Hubble Telescope to NASA. The mission would use a Momentus Vigoride orbital service vehicle (OSV) with Astroscale’s RPOD technology built in. Astroscale’s RPOD technology would approach...
Senators Gary Peters and John Cornyn have reintroduced the Satellite Cybersecurity Act, which aims to protect commercial satellite operators from cyber attacks. The legislation would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to consolidate voluntary satellite cybersecurity recommendations...
A consortium of major players in Europe's space industry, including Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, Hispasat, SES and Thales Alenia Space, has announced plans to bid on the European Union's Iris² constellation. The project is a new flagship EU...
On April 25th, ispace (9348.T) nearly succeeded in becoming the first private company to softly land a spacecraft on the moon with its HAKUTO-R lunar lander. However, mission operators lost contact with the 1-ton spacecraft moments before touchdown and...
SES, a global satellite operator, has secured a new contract worth nearly $30m from the US military. The five-year Commercial Satellite Communications Transponded Capacity (CTC) contract was awarded to SES Space & Defense, a subsidiary of SES, and will...
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