Launch

Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency (RF) reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company, received its first South American pre-order secured by Pierre Duquesne, a regional expert. Kleos closed its first pre-order with the Brazilian integrator, including potential for recurring annual revenues. Kleos Space’s independent data solutions aim to provide defense, security, and commercial users with access to...

Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems recently completed environmental testing for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Wide Field of View (WFOV) satellite at Boeing’s Space Environment Test Facility in El Segundo, offering new synergies to the customer. The geosynchronous satellite will support the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) mission and provide...

Relativity Space signed a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) to launch Momentus’ small and medium satellite customers on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket. Momentus will then deliver their customers’ small and medium sized satellites to Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) using the Momentus Vigoride Extended in-space shuttle service. The agreement includes Momentus’ purchase of a first launch, scheduled for...

MDA, a Maxar company, revealed that it will design and manufacture space-based L-band navigation antennas as part of a hosted payload on the MEASAT-3d satellite, which is currently being built by Airbus. The MDA-built navigation antennas will be integrated on a hosted payload for South Korean KTSAT that will support the Korea Augmentation Satellite System...

Airbus won a design study from the U.K.’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to develop the technologies for a cluster of ultra-high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD). The satellites will also have the ability to collect Radio Frequency (RF) signals. Called “Oberon,” the project will see Airbus develop...

Boeing unveiled its 702X family of software-defined satellites, highlighting a 1,900 kilogram (kg) variant for Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO). The 702X technology enables operators to adapt to changing market conditions by dynamically allocating bandwidth. The 702X builds on Boeing’s existing 702 series satellites. The 702X platform incorporates a mature design, with a Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) version...

SES selected SpaceX as a launch partner to deliver its next-generation Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation into space on board Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral. The two companies have disrupted the industry in the past when SES became the first to launch a commercial GEO satellite with SpaceX, and later as the first ever payload...

The first Spacebus Neo satellite — Konnect, a High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) ordered by Eutelsat — successfully completed its mechanical test campaign in Thales Alenia Space facilities in Cannes, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The test demonstrates the ability of the satellite to withstand the strong shaking that occurs during launch. Now that the environmental...

Northrop Grumman selected Seakr Engineering to provide a space signal processor on two new GEOStar satellites to launch in 2022.  This is Seakr’s second major customer utilizing the Wolverine processor, a new Radio Frequency (RF) reconfigurable processor which can process 10 Gigahertz (GHz) of bandwidth for a variety of applications. Seakr’s RF processor leverages four generations...

Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) announced today that it has delivered a small satellite designed for NASA to measure the microphysical properties of cloud water and ice particles. The HARP CubeSat satellite was built by SDL to carry the HyperAngular Rainbow Polarimeter payload built by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) under...