Astrocast’s $4.1 Million in Seed Funding to Grow Sixty-Four Satellites
The additional capital was provided by investiere.ch, one of Switzerland’s leading start-up investors, and comes in addition to the current seed...
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Orbital Micro Systems’ Miniature Weather Observation System to Send in Smallsat
The IOD space mission, scheduled for the autumn of 2018, will deliver the first OMS satellite to orbit and is expected to immediately change the global...
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SSL Partners with NASA JPL and University of Michigan for SunRISE Mission
SSL’s role in the mission, called the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE), is to provide a ride beyond geosynchronous orbit...
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NanoRacks Completes Fourth External Cargo Ship Satellite Deployment Mission, Largest to Date
On this External Cygnus Deployment mission, NanoRacks deployed 14 satellites with customers that included Spire, Asgardia, Tyvak, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and more...
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Eleven Spaceflight Smallsats Set for Orbit via Indian PSLV Rocket in January
The Spacecraft include Finland’s ICEYE-X1 SAR microsatellite, Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 6U asteroid prospecting demonstration cubesat, four ...
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FACSAT-2 Smallsat Program to be Initiated by GomSpace for the Air Force of Columbia
The FACSAT-2 Project comprises the design, manufacture, test and operation of an advanced 6U remote sensing spacecraft. This new project will build on the technology transfer gained through the FACSAT-1 project, awarded to GomSpace in 2014. FACSAT-2 spacecraft is planned to be launched in 2019, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Colombian Air Force.<br /> ...
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Australia’s Smallsat Buccaneer Communicates After Last Week’s Launch
The satellite will be used to test key technologies in preparation for the calibration of the Jindalee Over-the-Horizon Operational Radar Network...
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Ghana’s Planning a Satellite Launch … the Second So Far
The second satellite would help the Lands Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor ...
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First Irish Smallsat in Development
Eirsat-1 will be small and will be completely Irish-built with an orbit lifetime up to two years in length. The project is being led by the UCD Space...
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Sri Lanka Heading into Space with First Satellite by 2020
The Arthur C. Clarke Institute, Sri Lanka's state institute for Research and Development, specializing in several areas including information...
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