Tag: Ground

Axelspace Corporation, a microsatellite pioneer, has established the “Green Spacecraft Standard 1.0,” intending to balance space business and sustainability. Axelspace will comply with the guideline during the life cycle of satellites and actively promote it so that sustainable space business will become an industry standard. What is the Green Spacecraft Standard 1.0? The guideline for…

Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), will partner with Serco, the leader of the consortium awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA), to implement the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP), a key element of the European Commission’s flagship initiative Destination Earth (DestinE). The objective of DestinE is to develop…

SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, announced the availability of flexible, secure, and reliable satellite-powered network connectivity for the AWS Modular Data Center. AWS Modular Data Center makes it easy for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy modular data centers managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in infrastructure-limited locations. In…

Capella Space announced that it has been awarded a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by NASA’s Earth Science Division for the purchase of its high-resolution SAR imagery and data for evaluation to determine their suitability for advancing NASA’s science and application goals.  Under this sole-source agreement, NASA will have access to Capella’s commercial SAR image…

Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced final launch preparations for the RUNNER-1 satellite. The satellite will be launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-8 rideshare mission scheduled from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA.…