Technology

Terran Orbital has formed a new business division, the Optical Solutions Group (OSG) focused on electro-optical (EO) satellite imaging products. The new group has been tasked with developing new space-based imaging solutions for Earth observation and space domain awareness. These solutions will use Terran Orbital satellite bus platforms with boresight and broadband communications capabilities and...

Slingshot Aerospace raised $40.85 million in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round announced Tuesday, to grow and commercialize its space situational awareness capabilities.  CEO and co-founder Melanie Stricklan sees the funding as validation of Slingshot’s mission to  keep space safe and its approach, as the company raised capital despite signs of a global economic downturn. ...

NASA’s TBIRD mission recently achieved a record for optical communications in space. The satellite downlinked 1.4 terabytes of data over laser communications links in a single pass that lasted about five minutes. The agency confirmed the demonstration Dec. 1.  The TBIRD payload — TeraByte InfraRed Delivery — was built by built by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Dec. 1 established a new U.S. Department of Defense office charged with helping companies that are developing technologies critical to national security partner with private capital to help them get the financing necessary to ensure these technologies transition out of the laboratory and into production. The DoD said that the...

OneWeb is developing new ground infrastructure in Bulgaria, the company announced, Nov. 29. Vivacom, part of the United Group network is constructing a dedicated ground station for OneWeb in Bulgaria. The facility will expand communications services and increase access for EU territories to OneWeb’s constellation of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. This will increase system resilience...

Over the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ran AWS compute and machine learning software on a satellite in orbit in a first-of-its kind experiment. AWS collaborated with D-Orbit and Unibap, and ran the experiment on D-Orbit’s ION satellite. AWS detailed the experiment in a blog post published Tuesday. The AWS software prototype was...

Spacecom has revealed details of some trials its has done alongside Orbit Communication Systems evaluating connectivity speeds and performance of Orbit’s latest airborne terminals. The trials took place on Spacecom’s AMOS-17 digital Ka-band satellite. AMOS-17 is a high throughput satellite providing coverage over Africa and the Middle East. The two companies announced Nov. 29 that...

Propulsion company Morpheus Space and space situational awareness company Kayhan Space recently announced a strategic partnership to offer a collision avoidance service with Morpheus Space propulsion with built-in Kayhan Space Pathfinder software.  It is a pay-as-you-go subscription with preemptive collision avoidance and on-orbit maneuver options. The companies said operators can purchase Delta-V fuel and complete...

Resonate Testing is offering new training program to deliver specialized training for space companies in Ireland. The industrial testing company announced Nov. 21 that it had partnered with Irish government-funded training network Space Industry Skillnet to deliver specialized training on testing processes for companies working within the space industry in Ireland. Resonate Testing was approached...

ST Engineering iDirect is set for a busy year in 2023 as it aims to bring more of its technology to some of the satellite network business plans developing around the world. However, it has been an interesting time for the company. Its former CEO Kevin Steen recently left to join OneWeb Technologies, and Ka...