Tag: Launch
-
ARSAT Awards CPI $20 Million Contract For ARSAT-SG1 Ground Station Ka-Band Program
ARSAT, the national Argentinian telecommunications company, has awarded Communications & Power Industries (CPI) an approximately $20 million contract to provide large, Ka-band telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) and gateway systems to support the ARSAT-SG1 satellite. CPI will provide two 13.2 meter TT&C antennas and six 6.3 meter gateway earth station antennas, each fully integrated with CPI satellite communications amplifiers, to be installed…
-
Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches two commercial radar satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. The Electron rocket will carry two commercial radar remote sensing satellites for Capella Space. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Rocket Lab’s live video webcast begins approximately 30…
-
Rocket Lab deploys two Capella radar satellites after launch from Virginia
Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher climbs away from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher delivered two all-weather radar Earth observation satellites into orbit for Capella Space Thursday night after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, successfully completing the company’s second flight from the U.S. spaceport. Running five days…
-
SES to complete C-band clearing program with SpaceX dual-satellite launch
The SES 18 and 19 communications satellites inside a SpaceX payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SES, the international communications satellite operator, plans to send two more C-band television broadcasting spacecraft into orbit from Cape Canaveral Friday night atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission that will help clear spectrum for…
-
Taoglas’ GPS/GALILEO Patch Antenna Solution to be used in Ireland’s First-Ever Satellite
Taoglas’ GPS/GALILEO patch antenna solution is to be used in EIRSAT-1. EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first-ever satellite is due to launch this year. EIRSAT-1 is history in the making and is being carried out by a highly skilled team of researchers and students at UCD. EIRSAT-1 will go into low orbit around the earth and will carry three payloads, including a gamma ray detector, a space…
-
Stoke Space Allocated Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Stoke Space, the rocket company building the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket, announced that they have been allocated Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida by the Space Launch Delta 45. “We are over the Moon excited by this opportunity,” said Julia Black, Director of Range Operations at…
-
Sidus Space Awarded New Contract for Next Phase of NASA ASTRA Project
Sidus Space, a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and space-based data collection was awarded a follow-on agreement for the next phase of NASA’s Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications (ASTRA) project. During this phase of the ASTRA project, the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near…
-
Innoflight Selected as Strategic Space Avionics Supplier by Northrop Grumman
Innoflight is on contract with Northrop Grumman to deliver key avionics including communications, encryption/decryption, networking, processing with data storage, and precision navigation timing products for Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL). Northrop Grumman selected Innoflight as a strategic avionics supplier for the Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) program. …
-
Raytheon Technologies Awarded $250 Million Contract for Missile Warning and Tracking Satellite Constellation
Raytheon Technologies received an award valued at more than $250 million to design, develop and deliver a seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation, as well as support launch and ground operations by the Space Development Agency. Once deployed, the low-Earth orbit constellation of networked satellites will become the fifth plane of satellites providing missile warning and…
-
Rocket Lab Announces Launch Window for Second Electron Mission from Virginia
Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, announced it has scheduled its next Electron launch from Virginia during a launch window that opens March 11, 2023. The “Stronger Together” mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) on Wallops Island, Virginia for American space tech company…