ST Engineering iDirect, a company of ST Engineering North America, introduced its MxDMA MRC (multi-resolution coding) technology at Satellite 2020, the company announced on 9 March 2020. This technology unites SCPC (single carrier per channel) efficiency and TDMA (time-division multiple access) scalability in an innovative way, adding ground-breaking new dimensions …
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: The Legacy Of LeoSat, An Interview With Ronald Van Der Breggen
Thriving in the New Space ecosystem can be very difficult. There is no blueprint, and the best ideas can rise and fall quickly and unpredictably. But still, we endeavour: planning missions, assembling satellites, and building mega-constellations.
Read More »Caltech & JPL Launch Hybrid High Rate Quantum Communication Systems
Caltech and JPL have been successful partners in space exploration since the mid-1930s. In their tradition of intermixing in unique ways fundamental science, technology and engineering they develop a collaborative multi-disciplinary cross-agency research program to advance and accelerate scalable hybrid quantum networking and communications technologies.
Read More »Axiom Space Plans First-Ever Fully Private Human Spaceflight Mission To The International Space Station
Axiom Space announced on 5 March 2020 that it is planning history’s first fully private human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station.
Read More »Airbus’ Bartolomeo Launches Successfully
The Airbus-built Bartolomeo platform was successfully launched on 6 March 2020 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, US. Bartolomeo is now on its journey to the International Space Station (ISS) and will be installed outside of the Columbus Laboratory, the European module of the ISS built by Airbus.
Read More »Hughes And OneWeb Announce Global Distribution Partnership For Low Earth Orbit Satellite Service
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, and OneWeb, the global communications company with a mission to bring connectivity to everyone everywhere, announced on 9 March 2020 that Hughes has become a worldwide distribution partner for OneWeb.
Read More »Kacific1 Broadband Services Begin Across Asia Pacific
Singapore-based Kacific Broadband Satellites Group announced on 9 March 2020 that its first communications satellite, KACIFIC1, has entered commercial service and is ready to support customers across the Asia-Pacific.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op-Ed: How Space Technologies Help Fight The Coronavirus In China (Part 2)
By Yue Yuan In this two-part study, exclusive to SpaceWatch.Global, researcher Yue Yuan examines the role of satellite technologies in detecting and monitoring the ongoing outbreak of the Coronavirus – also known as COVID-19 – and their wider role in national and global public health. Satellite Remote Sensing and Earth …
Read More »Space Video Company Sen Awards Multimillion-Euro Contract To NanoAvionics
Sen, a British space company establishing video streaming media to provide real-time and timely Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video of Earth, has contracted NanoAvionics to build the first five nano-satellites of its constellation.
Read More »SpaceLogistics Selected by DARPA As Commercial Partner For Robotic Servicing Mission
SpaceLogistics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.
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