Technology

Keysight Technologies is releasing a new Digital Wideband Transceiver test solution, which reports radio frequency (RF) performance characteristics of mixed-digital RF devices. The company announced the new offering on April...

Sarah Schellpfeffer, CTO of Northrop Grumman’s Space sector, recently joined the opening general session at SATELLITE, which looked at how satellite business models and technologies are evolving in the multi-orbit...

Astra Space, Inc. will supply LeoStella with spacecraft engines under a new contract announced Tuesday. Astra is a smallsat launcher and is expanding into space technologies. The launcher acquired propulsion...

Indonesian telecommunications company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) selected Hughes Network Systems’ Jupiter ground platform for its Nusantara Lima satellite. Under the contract announced Tuesday, a total of 11 Jupiter...

Thales Alenia Space is joining forces with AIKO to develop advanced software for space systems, the two companies announced April 8. The partnership will primarily study the use of artificial...

U.S. and United Arab Emirates-based space tech company Precious Payload released the first API software integration of the “Launch.ctrl” space navigation tool it developed with “ienai GO” software by Spanish propulsion solutions provider Ienai...

Aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin published an open-source, non-proprietary Mission Augmentation Port (MAP) interface standard for on-orbit spacecraft docking on Monday and made it available for download on their website. The...

The U.S. Space Force is awarding Slingshot Aerospace a $25.2 million contract to support development of the company’s Digital Space Twin, which simulates scenarios in space. The Digital Space Twin...

Comtech Telecommunications has won a new contract with SES to supply O3b mPOWER 5.5 meter gateways, small gateways, and user terminals, SES announced March 30. The antenna hardware comes in...

It’s all about the form factor. Flat panel antenna (FPA) is not a term widely loved in a competitive industry where everyone wants to brand their own technology — electronically...