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A leader in large-scale industrial 3D printing, a market leader in space logistics and the European Space Agency teamed up to launch a new Grand Challenge: The COSMIC LFAM ESA Grand Challenge. Starting from today, 26 May 2023, you can...
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...
Rocket Lab has successfully launched the first TROPICS mission for NASA from New Zealand. The mission involves two cubesats that will monitor hurricanes, with a total of four cubesats set to be launched in the TROPICS constellation. The satellites...
Raytheon Technologies has enlisted CesiumAstro to provide phased array communications payloads for its contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. The Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) radio frequency (RF) communications payload will...
Loft Federal, the government subsidiary of Loft Orbital, has ordered Mynaric laser terminals for its work on the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Experimental Testbed. Mynaric will supply the CONDOR Mk3 terminals, with deliveries scheduled for the first half of...
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...
  The Space Development Agency (SDA) has renamed its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), and is preparing to issue solicitations for Tranche 2. The Tranche 2 Transport Layer Alpha solicitation is set for...
Ball Aerospace has announced that it is partnering with Loft Federal and Microsoft to work on its Space Development Agency (SDA) contract for the experimental testbed NExT. The contract, worth up to $176m, was awarded to Ball Aerospace in...
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (“NanoAvionics”) has announced a multi-million investment plan to support and accelerate its goal of becoming the prime supplier for small satellite constellations, globally. As a result of the recent acquisition by Kongsberg and part of its growth plan,...
The new constellation is planned to be launched as a collection of four satellites in total, each capable of under 1-meter resolution imaging. ICEYE, the owner of the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation and SATLANTIS, a leading New...