Technology

The European Space Agency (ESA) and an SES-led consortium are developing a system that will allow the generation of encryption keys from space, as well as their secure transmission to...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, has signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Nanowave Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of advanced microwave, millimeter-wave and electro-optic multi-function modules and subsystems. MDA will provide satellite components...

Airbus Aerial and DroneBase, a global drone operations company, have announced a partnership to deliver a multi-source data service solution for aerial imagery and data from a single provider. This...

Fred Krupp, president of Canada’s Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), gave a recent TED talk about the organization’s plans to launch a satellite in orbit that will gather data about the...

French space agency CNES has chosen the Space Alliance, formed by Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, to extend the fiber-optic communications system (STFO) at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s...

Year after year, traffic orbiting the Earth is increasing while space debris poses an ever-greater threat for satellites and crews of space vehicles. To combat this problem, the European Space Agency (ESA)...

NanoAvionics has signed a contract with Lacuna Space to support its in-orbit demonstration of an Internet of Things (IOT) communications network. NanoAvionics’ M6P satellite platform and mission integration services will...

Effective Space, a U.K.-headquartered company providing last-mile logistics in space, has announced a strategic partnership with ArianeGroup for the provision of electric propulsion systems for its Space Drone spacecraft. The...

Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe, yet it has long been at the centre of the space industry. In some ways, this is a quite remarkable fact....

Though the technology is just starting to roll out, Artificial Intelligence is applicable to many aspects of the satellite ecosystem, including system manufacturing, in-orbit management and image processing. From optimizing...