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Virgin Orbit announced that it has been selected to launch RHEA Group’s first satellite into space. The international engineering and solutions firm is working with Open Cosmos to design, build and operate its mission. Open Cosmos and RHEA have...
Mission integrator and smallsat bus manufacturer NanoAvionics has sold, for the first time, one of its operational satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) including ongoing mission operations. Launched last year, NanoAvionics's shared 6U satellite mission "D2 / Atlacom-1" includes...
Unravelling the mysteries of the Milky Way and mapping it in the process is one of the main goals of the Gaia mission. Gaia observed and measured approximately 1.8 billion celestial objects for this purpose. By the expected end...
ReOrbit and VENG, an Argentinian-based company, signed an agreement to manufacture satellites in Argentina to serve the Latin American market. The directors of both organizations met at the Argentina Space Centre located in Cordoba Province, Argentina, to visit the VENG’s AI&T...
NanoAvionics have used an off-the-shelf consumer camera, mounted on a selfie stick, to take the first ever 4K resolution full satellite selfie in space with an immersive view of Earth. The 12-megapixel photos and 4K video clips, taken with...
Leveraging the world’s largest synthetic aperture radar constellation, ICEYE will provide ESA with active flood hazard data before, during and after large-scale flood events. ICEYE announced the start of a pilot activity with the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Copernicus...
Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a satellite propulsion manufacturer based in Finland, has successfully launched its first space sustainable and technology demonstration satellite The Flying Object today. Over the next weeks, The Flying Object will deploy to Low Earth Orbit to validate...
MSG-1 (also called Meteosat-8) has broken all records for longevity, logging 19 years, 7 months and 12 days in orbit to date. This news confirms the robustness of Europe’s geostationary weather satellites. MSG-1 was launched back in August 2002, followed...
The distribution partner agreement enables Kymeta to resell OneWeb Technologies’ services with its fixed and mobility hardware solutions to the U.S. government. Kymeta, a world leading company for flat panel antennas making mobile global, and OneWeb Technologies, the premier provider of...
Aurora's satellite will deploy to Low Earth Orbit in a demonstration of the company's resistojet thrusters and plasma brakes that provide efficient propulsion and deorbiting capabilities for small satellites. The CubeSat will validate the water-based propellant and mobility control of...