Tag: Ground
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K2 Space Secures Funding to Expand its Mega-Class Spacecraft Manufacturing
K2 Space, the California-based developer of large, high-power satellite platforms, announced a $250 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, accelerating delivery of a new generation of spacecraft built for the heavy-lift era. The financing follows $500 million in signed contracts across commercial and U.S. government customers and is led by Redpoint, with participation…
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Mission Space and Rogue Space Launch Mission Space’s Second In-Orbit Payload
Mission Space, a commercial space-weather company with flight heritage and an actively expanding in-situ measurement network, will launch its second payload with Rogue Space. The announcement was made during the Spacepower Conference in Orlando. The first Mission Space payload, ZOHAR-I, launched in March 2025 and recently received the 2025 Global Tech Award for advancing high-cadence…
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Rocket Lab Launched Electron Mission for KAIST
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has launched a dedicated Electron mission for the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The mission, named ‘Bridging The Swarm’, was launched on Thursday, December 11 UTC from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. The mission now precedes the…
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CelesHub by Groundspace Delivers End-to-End Digital Infrastructure for Satellite Ground and Mission Operations
Groundspace, a provider of digital mission-operations infrastructure for satellite constellations and ground-segment networks, highlights CelesHub, the cloud-based software platform designed to unify, automate and streamline ground-station operations. CelesHub functions as an orchestration and data-exchange layer between satellites, ground stations and mission-operations centers enabling operators to manage multi-site and multi-satellite workflows through a single integrated environment.…
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DARPA Awards BAE Systems FAST Labs $16M Phase 2 Contract for Autonomous Satellite Custody Program
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems’ FAST Labs research, development, and production organization a $16 million Phase 2 contract for the Oversight program. The Oversight program is focused on creating an autonomous system that keeps track of, or maintains constant “custody” of, a large number of terrestrial assets via…
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Antaris Showcases SatOS Software Platform for Flexible Spacecraft Development
Antaris, a space-software company focused on accelerating spacecraft development and operations, highlights SatOS™, the open and modular spacecraft operating environment engineered to reduce complexity in satellite software integration. SatOS is designed to address common challenges faced by satellite builders such as fragmented software stacks, hardware-specific coding requirements, lengthy qualification cycles and high non-recurring engineering (NRE)…
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Teledyne e2v Space Services Supporting Next-Generation Satellite and Space Systems
Teledyne e2v, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, supplies a broad range of radiation-tolerant semiconductors, high-reliability electronics and imaging devices for spacecraft and scientific missions. Headquartered in Chelmsford, United Kingdom, the company operates additional engineering, manufacturing and radiation-test facilities across Europe and North America. The space-qualified product portfolio including data converters, microprocessors, RF devices,…
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Voyager Secures $21 Million AFRL Contract to Develop AI-Powered ISR Systems
Voyager Technologies is on contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory under a $21 million contract to develop AI-enabled next-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. “Today’s threats change fast, so our systems must adapt faster than the threats they counter,” said Matt Magaña, president of Space, Defense & National Security at Voyager. “By combining next-generation…
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Benchmark Space System Demonstrates World’s First High-Throughput ASCENT Thruster at AFRL
Benchmark Space Systems has achieved a major propulsion milestone with the successful hotfire demonstration of the 22-Newton ASCENT thruster, marking the first large-scale, sustained burn of the government-developed monopropellant ever conducted. The achievement, validated in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerospace Systems Directorate, at Edwards AFB, proves that ASCENT propulsion has transcended…
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Momentus Selected for SHIELD IDIQ Program to Support Missile Tracking and Defense Missions
Momentus Inc. announced its selection to participate in the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. This designation positions Momentus to compete for rapid task orders supporting technology demonstrations, missile tracking, resilient communications, and other national defense missions. The SHIELD program is a major element of…