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Sierra Space has opened a $45 million technology center in Broomfield, Colorado, designed to accelerate the production and delivery of Surface Mount Technology solar arrays for satellites used for national defense applications. The facility, known as the Power Station, features an integrated test center that includes thermal vacuum and thermal air chambers and a dynamics […] More
HawkEye 360 has revealed that it has established contact with its Cluster 12 satellites. The commercial signals intelligence and data analytics provider said Thursday the recent development follows the satellites’ launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from New Zealand on June 26. Cluster 12 to Enhance Radio Frequency Data Collection Cluster 12 is intended to […] More
Maxar Intelligence has unveiled its persistent monitoring technology called Sentry to deliver predictive intelligence on a global scale. What Is Sentry? The Colorado-based provider of secure geospatial insights said Wednesday Sentry is a first-of-its-kind technology designed to deliver continuous and wide-scale geospatial monitoring. It provides users with operational and threat intelligence that can be leveraged […] More
Amazon has launched a new batch of its Project Kuiper communication satellites into low Earth orbit. On Monday, United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida carrying the spacecraft, which are designed to deliver fast and reliable internet anywhere in the world. The […] More
Orion Space Solutions has completed the test readiness review, or TRR, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Ouija program taking the very low Earth orbit mission one step closer to deployment since its initiation in 2022. The Arcfield subsidiary said Tuesday the completion of the TRR confirms the Ouija nanosatellite space vehicle’s readiness for VLEO’s demanding […] More
Impulse Space has secured $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Linse Capital, bringing the in-space transportation services provider’s total funding to $525 million. The California-based company said Tuesday it will use the capital to scale and execute its backlog of missions amid increasing demand in the defense, civil and commercial sectors. […] More
Draper has finished testing its assured positioning, navigation and timing systems, including an advanced airborne celestial navigation system, or CNS, that was certified for U.S. military standards. The pre-production tests were conducted aboard an aircraft for over 30 flight hours and at altitudes of up to 25,000 feet, Draper said Wednesday. During the flight tests, […] More
Firefly Aerospace has announced a $50 million investment from Northrop Grumman for advancing the production of Eclipse, a medium launch vehicle that the two companies are developing. In a press release published Thursday, Firefly said the spacecraft builds on its Alpha space vehicle and Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket. Eclipse is being designed to deliver significant […] More
KBR has announced that it will develop a human spaceflight food laboratory as part of its efforts to expand the company’s commercial space capabilities. The science, technology and engineering company said Thursday it signed a letter of intent with ACMI Properties to build the spaceflight food lab at NASA’s Exploration Park near the Johnson Space Center. […] More
Iridium will invest over $13 million to move its headquarters to a bigger space in Fairfax County, Virginia, reflecting its growing revenues and expanding service offerings. The satellite company’s headquarters, which currently sits on a 35,000-square-foot space in McLean, will move to a 55,000-square-foot space at 1676 International Drive in Tysons. New Employment Opportunities Construction […] More
Venus Aerospace has demonstrated its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico, marking the first U.S. flight test of the propulsion technology designed to enable hypersonic flight with speeds of up to six times the speed of sound from a conventional runway. RDRE, which offers improved efficiency and compactness compared to traditional […] More
Kepler Communications, in partnership with French optical ground station company Cailabs, has demonstrated space-to-ground optical data relay in multiple scenarios for the first time. Data transmissions were performed between the optical Pathfinder satellite equipped with TESAT’s SCOT80 terminal in low Earth orbit and Cailabs’ optical ground station in France, demonstrating space-to-ground laser links that meet […] More
