Focus: Smallsats

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded D-Orbit with a General Support Technology Program (GSTP) contract to develop a precise, in-orbit cubesat deployer. The approximately $3 million dollar (2.6 million euros) contract...

Arianespace and the French Center for National Space Studies (CNES) Space Agency revealed that they have signed a launch contract for Argos Néo on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite...

Swarm Technologies agreed to pay the The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) $900 thousand over a period of five years, according to an order released Dec. 20. Swarm previously “engaged in...

An SRI International cubesat space-weather mission, the Ionospheric Scintillation Explorer (ISX), was launched into space on Dec. 15 as one of the payloads on the most recent Rocket Lab launch. The...

Rocket Lab launched its third orbital mission of 2018, successfully deploying satellites to orbit for NASA. The mission, designated Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)-19 , took place just over a...

Ever since Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) opened its doors 20 years ago at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), innovations in microspace technologies have led to one...

U.S. small satellite launch company Rocket Lab is gearing up for the company’s third orbital launch of the year, the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)-19 mission for NASA. The launch...

SpaceX successfully launched Spaceflight‘s SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission on Monday. The payloads were carried on a Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off at 10:34 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force...

In the middle of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) ambitious Space Month initiative in November, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sat down for an interview with Via Satellite to discuss...

The Slovenian Center of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies (SPACE-SI) chose Arianespace to launch its NEMO-HD microsatellite. It will be launched on the Vega launch vehicle, as part of...