By Raphael Roettgen With almost US$550 million of announced space-related financing rounds, May has turned out to be the top space fundraising month so far in 2020. SpaceX, besides launching astronauts to the ISS on Crew Dragon, came in with over US$346 million by itself. The total amount does not …
Read More »Airbus Wins ESA Contract To Construct Third European Service Module For NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced on 26 May 2020 that it has signed a contract with Airbus for the construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft. The contract is worth around €250 million.
Read More »Momentus Space And Alba Orbital Sign Contract For Up To 10 PocketQubes
Momentus Space, provider of in-space transportation services for satellites, and Alba Orbital, builder and designer of the world’s smallest commercial satellite platforms, announced a contract for three Alba Albapods to ride on plaza deck of the Falcon 9 vehicle, which will launch in December 2020 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape …
Read More »Airbus Wins Contract To Supply EU With Satellite Communications
Airbus has won the new satellite communications framework contract for military and civil missions of the European Union and its member states. This four-year framework contract was awarded by the European Defence Agency (EDA) and is estimated to be worth tens of millions of euros.
Read More »Field Campaign Of IGLUNA 2020 Will Happen Online
The Field Campaign of IGLUNA 2020, initially planned to take place in Lucerne from 10-19 July 2020, has been replaced by an online version due to the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Read More »Airbus’ Sentinel-6A “Gets An Earful”
Earth observation satellite Sentinel-6A is currently getting an earful.Airbus space engineers are ‘bombarding’ the latest satellite for the European environment and security programme ‘Copernicus’ with sound in a dedicated chamber at the Space Test Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn, near Munich.
Read More »Thuraya Aero Reaches Line-Fit Milestone For Airbus Helicopters
Thuraya, the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) subsidiary of the UAE-based global satellite company, Yahsat, and SCOTTY Group, a developer of beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) satellite communication solutions based in Austria, announced on 30 April 2020 that they have secured line-fit offerability for the Thuraya Aero mobile connectivity solution on Airbus H145 and H135 helicopters.
Read More »KSAT Builds The World’s First Commercial Optical Ground Station
At present, there exists a global gridlock in the optical downlink domain due to both a lack of industrialized ground stations made available for regular service, and an insufficient number of spacecrafts using optical downlinks.
Read More »GSMA Opens Innovation Fund For Mobile Internet Adoption And Digital Inclusion And Calls For Applications
The Global System for Global Communications Association (GSMA) has opened applications for the Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion.
Read More »Final Integration Is In Full Swing For ESA’s Jupiter Probe, JUICE
JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone on its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe: the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus’ satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen, Germany, for final integration.
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