Focus: Manufacturing

Northrop Grumman has successfully powered up the two main parts of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, signaling a milestone event in the test and integration phase of the program. The...

Airbus has opened its Space Academy in Toulouse, France to help train customers in the operation of satellites and space systems that are acquired from the company. When a customer...

The Satellite Applications Catapult has contracted Open Cosmos to provide its space mission service to the In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD-6) program. Through this mission, the Satellite Applications Catapult is expanding its...

Harris Corporation has delivered an environmental monitoring sensor for the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite-2 (GOSAT-2), which will significantly enhance Japan’s ability to monitor greenhouse gases from space. The Harris-built Thermal...

SSL has selected SolAero Technologies, a provider of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, for the design, manufacture and testing of...

As fiscal year 2017 financials trickled in, it was clear that the impact of a changing market and pricing declines continues to hit the bottom line of commercial satellite operators....

Infostellar and Kyushu Institute of Technology, known as Kyutech, have formed an official partnership in order to accelerate collaboration and development of StellarStation. Under this partnership, Kyutech will become a...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, has appointed Chris Pogue to serve as president of the newly created MDA Government division. In addition, MDA has announced an organizational shift to better align...

Lindsay Corporation, a manufacturer and distributor of irrigation and infrastructure equipment and technology, and Farmers Edge, a provider of precision digital solutions for agriculture, have formed a new strategic partnership...

Northrop Grumman has announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared its proposed acquisition of Orbital ATK. The FTC’s Bureau of Competition has completed its review of the...