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MBRYONICS Expands Customer Base and Manufacturing Facilities to Meet Growing Demand
MBRYONICS has been expanding its partner and customer ecosystem and has recently been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for in-orbit demonstration activities in a team led by Kepler Communications. The €18.6M award is under Element 3 of the High-throughput Optical Network (HydRON) program, a project under ESA’s Optical and Quantum Communications – ScyLight…
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PlanetiQ Secures $15 Million STRATFI Contract for Next-Gen Space Weather Data
PlanetiQ announced the U.S. Air Force has awarded it a $15 million, 48-month Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract. The program will support the development and launch of spacecraft equipped with next-generation Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) RO, R and PRO instruments and the delivery of high-value weather data to the US Air Force. The mission…
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CACI International Secures $231 Million Contract to Support US Special Operations Command
CACI International Inc announced that it has been awarded a base year technology task order with four option years valued at up to $231 million, continuing nearly two decades of service to the U.S. Special Operations Command. CACI will deliver accurate, near-real-time satellite communications support, providing program visibility to the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC)…
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MDA Space Selected by Airbus for OneWeb Antenna Program
MDA Space Ltd., a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, has been selected by Airbus to design and build more than 880 Ka-band steerable antennas and 440 Ku-band user replacement antennas for the OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation owned by the global operator Eutelsat. This award…
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Rocket Lab Finalizes Mynaric Acquisition Expands Optical Communications Portfolio
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has completed the acquisition of Mynaric AG, a leading provider of laser optical communications terminals for air, space and mobile applications. Rocket Lab paid an aggregate consideration value of $155.3 million consisting of a nominal cash payment and 2,277,002 shares of…
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New Glenn Grounded and AST SpaceMobile Satellite Lost After Launch Anomaly
AST SpaceMobile plans to file an insurance claim for the BlueBird 7 satellite it will lose after a New Glenn vehicle placed it into the wrong orbit on Sunday. Blue Origin launched a BlueBird 7 satellite for AST SpaceMobile from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station taking off at 7:25 a.m. EDT. The mission lifted off…
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China builds 1,000+ satellite annual capacity amid launch bottlenecks
How fast is China scaling satellite manufacturing capacity? China has built satellite manufacturing infrastructure capable of producing over 1,000 spacecraft annually, representing a 300% increase from 2023 levels, as state-owned enterprises and commercial players race to support ambitious satellite constellation deployments. However, this production surge has created a critical mismatch with launch capacity, as Chinese…
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Poland Invests in New Defense GEO Satellite Built by Thales, Airbus, and Radmor
Poland is the latest country to invest more in its space defense capabilities with a key new contract with some of Europe’s biggest players for a new Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite. The Polish Ministry of Defence has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Defence and Space and Polish electronics manufacturer Radmor to develop…
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Latvia Signs Artemis Accords as 32nd Country
Why is Latvia joining the Artemis Accords significant for lunar commerce? Latvia has become the 32nd country to sign the Artemis Accords, marking another step in NASA’s strategy to build a broad international coalition for lunar exploration and cislunar space operations. The Baltic nation’s participation adds to growing European representation in the framework, which now…
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Inside SatEnlight’s Spiral Staircase of Lasers: Interview with Startup Space Winner Matteo Vismara
Based in Milan, Italy, SatEnlight is an optical communications technology company with a terminal that stacks multiple beams on top of each other, arranged in what looks like a multi-layered spiral staircase of lasers. SatEnlight CEO and co-founder Matteo Vismara and his co-founder developed the product based on years of scientific research in Physics and…