SpaceX’s successful Wednesday Starlink satellite launch but No-Go for Maxar’s WorldView mission
Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream On Wednesday, April 17 at 5:26 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A beautiful Florida ...
SpaceX launches DoD’s next-generation operational environmental intelligence satellite
SpaceX launches USSF-62 mission Thursday. Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream On Thursday, April 11 at 7:25 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the USSF-62 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...
Astranis’ next generation product: Omega
Astranis has announced Omega which, according to the company, is pound-for-pound the most powerful communications satellite for a GEO satellite to ever offer, with more than over 50 Gbps in a smallsat form factor, with expectations for launch in 2026 ...
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USSF extends partnership with L3Harris to enhance space domain awareness
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received an award of option year five of the Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program — this contract, worth up to $187 million from the U.S. Space Force (USSF), continues the modernization and ...
SpaceX Thursday launch ready to go
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, April 18 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 6:40 p.m. ET, with ...
Kacific + Microsoft partner to reach 10 million people in APAC with internet access initiative
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group and Microsoft recently announced their collaboration to bring high-speed satellite internet access to 750 rural educational and healthcare institutions with a geographical coverage of 10 million across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region over the next two ...
Kratos executed fully virtualized SATCOM ground system for U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command over SES’s O3b MEO constellation
Together the companies showcase technology capable of supporting multi-orbit, multi-mission satellite ground operations Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a technology company in the defense, national security and global markets, and SES, a provider in global content connectivity solutions, successfully ...
Space Leasing International enters into a new lease agreement with RBC Signals
Space Leasing International (SLI), the aerospace subsidiary of the Libra Group, has signed a new lease agreement with RBC Signals — this agreement includes SLI’s purchase of a ground station in Piteå, Sweden, which will be leased to RBC Signals ...
The final satellites of the Canadian CubeSat Project to be deployed
On April 18, the three CubeSats designed and built by Canadian students that launched to the International Space Station on March 21st will be deployed into space. This is the fourth and last deployment under the Canadian CubeSat Project. The teams ...
RocketStar Inc. unveils Phoenix Eye™ for Critical missions
RocketStar Inc. has rolled out Phoenix Eye™ that is designed to meet the advanced communication needs of satellites, military operations and other high-level applications. Phoenix Eye™ solves longstanding barriers in communication technology, offering unparalleled capabilities in navigation, signal detection, electronic ...
U.S.A.F. confirms Satcom Direct RO/RO Ku-band TRASC C-130 capability
SD Government (SDG) has successfully tested the Roll-on/Roll-off (RO/RO) Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) SATCOM capability the company developed with Florida-based R4 Integration, Inc. (R4i) in a 26-hour, 20-minute mission aboard a Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Hercules. Following the intense validation ...
SpaceX launch of Maxar’s WorldView Legion mission a No-Go
The WorldView Legion mission was postponed the day before launch and, with support ship Go Beyond now returned to the Port of Long Beach and the listing removed from the FAA Operations Plan Advisory, could be delayed for some time ...
L3Harris team aligns 10 mirrors for NASA’s Roman telescope
In a feat of precision engineering, L3Harris demonstrated the telescope’s ability to capture crisp images from deep space. When it launches by 2027, the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will serve as a powerful eye on deep space, capturing ...