US$68 million of announced space-related financing rounds in April 2020 is by far the lowest number this year and indeed in a while...
Read More »Australia’s DEWC Systems Receives $2 Million Contract To Build Satellite Electronic Warfare Sensor
DEWC Systems, Australia’s leading defence electronics systems manufacturer, has received a AUS$3.1 million (US$2.02 million) contract from the Australian Department of Defence to build the sensors for Miniaturised Orbital Electronic Warfare Sensor System (MOESS) programme, it has been reported on 28 April 2020.
Read More »Guatemala Launches Quetzmal CubeSat Through UNOOSA And JAXA KiboCUBE Programme
On 28 April 2020 the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), winner of the KiboCUBE programme 2017, run by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), saw their satellite deployed by JAXA from the International Space Station (ISS). The satellite – …
Read More »Songhai Labs And SatSure AG Announce Strategic Partnership
Songhai Labs, a knowledge broker platform based in Cameroon, and SatSure, a satellite precision company headquartered in Switzerland and with offices in India, UK, and Australia, have announced a strategic partnership.
Read More »NEC To Provide Vietnam With ‘LOTUSat-1’ Earth Observation Satellite System
NEC Corporation announced on 23 April 2020 that it received an order from Sumitomo Corporation for the manufacture and launch of the "LOTUSat-1" Earth observation satellite system for the Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC).
Read More »Iran Unveils Military Space Command, New Details on Satellite Launch
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled the existence of its own Space Command following the successful launch of the Noor-1 Earth observation satellite on 22 April 2020 (reported by SpaceWatch.Global here).
Read More »Spire Maritime Announces Revenue Growth And Expansion Into Asia
Spire Global, a global data service provider and leader AIS data solutions and weather forecasting, announced today the year-over-year results for its maritime business unit. Spire Maritime expanded into Asia and celebrated a four-fold increase in bookings in 2019. It continued to build on its successes after launching in January …
Read More »NanoAvionics Selected For Norwegian-Dutch Strategic Research Mission For Radar Signals
A consortium of Norwegian and Dutch research centres announced on 20 April 2020 hat it has selected satellite integrator NanoAvionics to build two nanosatellites, ‘Birkeland’ and ‘Huygens’. The purchase order is part of a military use of space (MilSpace) project under a bilateral strategic mutual assistance in research and technology …
Read More »Ball Aerospace Conducts Critical Design Review for Space Force’s Next-Gen Operational Weather Satellite
Ball Aerospace conducted a critical design review (CDR) of the Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite mission, which it is building for the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). With CDR concluded, Ball Aerospace begins full production of the satellite.
Read More »In Response To COVID-19, Space Dynamics Lab Satellite Operators “Fly” Small Sats From Home
The Space Dynamics Laboratory announced on 15 April 2020 that satellite operators are flying NASA spacecraft from their homes to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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