Focus: Manufacturing

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has completed full system and “ready for launch” pre-flight testing of its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite. OTB will launch as part of the U.S....

News broke last week that government investigators have confirmed SpaceX was not at fault for the failure of the top-secret Zuma mission in January. Instead, officials are pointing the finger...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest salvo attempting to punish China for intellectual property theft saw the levying a 25% tariff on some 1,300 items, including a host of satellite items....

The first nozzle of the P120 solid rocket motor common to the future European launchers Ariane 6 and Vega C has just left for the Guiana Space Center in Kourou,...

Spacecom announced it has chosen SSL to build its Amos 8 communications satellite. The satellite will deliver broadcast, broadband and data services from Spacecom’s 4 degrees West hotspot to Europe,...

NASA has given Orbital ATK approval to begin building its Landsat 9 spacecraft after completing a comprehensive design review of the mission. Landsat 9, a land surface mapping satellite, will...

The satellite industry may be bracing for an uncertain future, as the sales of GEO satellites plummet, but new advancements in digital technology — coupled with better, more cost-efficient manufacturing...

Rising opportunities in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) have created a lot of excitement in the satellite industry over the past few years. Yet, while the market for residential and...

What does the future of satellite servicing look like? In this exclusive audio interview, we tackle that question with Orbital ATK’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David W. Thompson...

York Space Systems announced the successful completion of the Harbinger Mission Critical Design Review (CDR) leveraging the company’s industrial-grade S-Class spacecraft platform. York’s S-Class platform is a standardized 3-axis stabilized...