Tag: Aerospace
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Loft Orbital and EarthDaily Analytics Sets Record Launch with Six Satellites
Loft Orbital, a global space infrastructure company, and EarthDaily Analytics, a premier provider of end-to-end Earth observation solutions, announced a milestone mission planned for this quarter that will see six EarthDaily satellites deployed on a single launch. This mission marks a major step in the full deployment of EarthDaily’s constellation and will double the size…
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Redwire Launches Additional Colloids Experiments to the International Space Station
Redwire launched additional colloids experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard a recent commercial resupply mission to the ISS. These modules support Redwire’s Colloidal Solids Instrument (COLIS), a powerful research platform advancing our understanding of diseases, drug development, advanced materials, industrial processes, and biomedical applications. When sunscreen thickens over time or mayonnaise slowly separates…
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HawkEye 360 to Support NASA in Developing Resilient Space Communications
HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, announced that the Commercial Crew and Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Programs at NASA have awarded the company a contract to supply its RFIQ data product to support critical research on future space-to-space communications. Leveraging its constellation of satellites, HawkEye 360 provides radio frequency…
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Starfighters Space Joins C-STARS Space Research Consortium
Starfighters Space, Inc., a commercial aerospace company operating the world’s fastest fleet of supersonic aircraft, announced that it has joined the Centre for Science, Technology, and Advanced Research in Space (C-STARS), a proposed National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry–University Cooperative Research Centre (IUCRC) focused on advancing space manufacturing and training the next generation of space technology…
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General Orbit Advances Magnetic Navigation for GPS Denied and Autonomous Systems
General Orbit is advancing next-generation navigation systems through a software-defined approach to magnetic sensing, designed to deliver reliable positioning in environments where traditional GPS-based systems are limited or unavailable. By combining compact hardware with machine learning-driven processing, the company is addressing long-standing challenges associated with magnetic navigation, including interference, integration complexity and system scalability. General…
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Flexcompute and Northrop Grumman Reduce Space Mission Preparation Time with AI Physics Models
Flexcompute, the physics company, and Northrop Grumman have developed a foundational AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA technology that fully automates a simulation workflow to accurately predict thruster impingement effects during space docking in real time. This AI Physics model features built-in uncertainty estimation and is designed to address some of the most complex spacecraft plume…
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Voyager Technologies Partners with Yonsei University to Advance VISTA Space Park
Voyager Technologies announced a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. The strategic cooperation will advance the Voyager Institute for Space, Technology and Advancement (VISTA) science park ecosystem, fusing commercial innovation with international partners to advance in-space research and manufacturing. “The commercial space economy is an international story,” said Jeffrey Manber,…
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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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Opterus Secures NASA SBIR Contract for Solar Sail Deployment System
Opterus has received a $10.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract from NASA to provide the structural deployment system for the agency’s next solar sail spacecraft. Opterus is developing a system to deploy and control a 1,600-square-meter sail, roughly the size of a hockey rink, using four 30-meter composite booms and integrated…
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Simsbury Manufacturer Plays Critical Role in NASA’s Artemis II Crewed Lunar Mission
Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense (EBAD), which employs approximately 500 people in Simsbury, CT and 300 in Moorpark, CA has designed, manufactured, and rigorously tested mission-critical hardware supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission; the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years. Artemis II will carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby,…