Focus: Manufacturing

Virgin Galactic mated the fuselage and cabin of its next spaceship to the completed wing assembly. In addition, the two tail booms have been mated to the spaceship’s rear feather flap...

HawkEye 360 awarded the manufacturing contract for its next generation of satellites the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS SFL). Enabled by HawkEye 360’s $70...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Airbus completed the ocean satellite Copernicus Sentinel-6A, and is now sending it on its first journey. Its destination is Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the...

Year 2017 wasn’t so big on large commercial satellites, with a surprisingly small number of Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) orders placed over the 12-month period. GEO orders the following year...

Small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) was selected by Viasat to join its team supporting the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI pilot program to test the first-ever...

Production of the first Vulcan Centaur rocket at the United Launch Alliance (ULA) factory in Decatur, Alabama continues, with shipment to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida scheduled for late...