Synspective, a Japanese startup which provides satellite data solutions using small-sized SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites, has accumulated $100 million USD in funding since its foundation in February 2018.
Read More »The Government of Canada and Telesat Partner to Bridge Canada’s Digital Divide
Telesat and the Government of Canada have partnered to ensure access to affordable high-speed Internet connectivity across rural and remote areas of Canada through the development of Telesat’s LEO satellite constellation.
Read More »Europe Prepares for Mars Courier
The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth. ESA is opening the door to industry to build the spacecraft that will deliver the precious rocks, dust and gas from Mars – the key to understanding whether life ever existed on our closest planetary neighbour.
Read More »Phasor Achieves ISO 9001 Certification
Phasor has achieved ISO 9001 Certification ahead of the commercial release of its products for the land mobile, maritime and aviation markets.
Read More »Firefly Aerospace Welcomes Brad Schneider as Chief Revenue Officer
Firefly has hired Brad Schneider as the Chief Revenue Officer. Schneider has more than 35 years of experience in corporate operations, business, and strategic marketing within the aerospace and defense industry, focusing the last two decades on the development of small satellite and launch vehicle technologies.
Read More »Viasat’s RTE Service Provided Commissioning and Operations Support to GA-EMS OTB Satellite
Viasat's Real-Time Earth (RTE) service achieved a major milestone by providing ground station service support to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems' (GA-EMS) Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite after its successful launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on June 25, 2019.
Read More »OneWeb Satellites and partners OneWeb and Airbus Open Doors on High-Volume Satellite Production Facility in Florida
OneWeb Satellites has officially opened the world’s first high-volume, high-speed advanced satellite production facility to bring transformative Internet connectivity to everyone, everywhere.
Read More »Maxar Chosen by NASA to Integrate Pollution Monitoring Payload on an Upcoming Commercial Satellite
Maxar will integrate and fly NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on a 1300-class satellite in geostationary (GEO) orbit. TEMPO will be the first space-based instrument to provide hourly monitoring of major air pollutants during the daytime across the North American continent at high spatial resolution.
Read More »How the Moon Landing 50 Years Ago Inspired a Generation in the UK
Hundreds of people across the UK have shared their astonishing memories, photos and scrapbooks for a special compilation to mark 50 years since the Apollo Moon landing in 1969.
Read More »GSLV MkIII-M1 Successfully Launches Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV MkIII-M1, successfully launched the 3840 kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft into an earth orbit on July 22nd. Today’s flight marks the first operational flight of the GSLV Mk III.
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