Tag: Payload Adapters
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Beyond Gravity Advances Satellite Deployment with Separation Systems and Payload Integration
Beyond Gravity continues to play a critical role in global space transportation through the portfolio of separation systems, dispenser solutions, payload adapters and satellite integration technologies. The company supports launch vehicle operators, satellite manufacturers and constellation providers with hardware designed to securely hold spacecraft during launch and accurately deploy them into orbit. Beyond Gravity’s separation…
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Voyager Technologies Awarded New Mission Management Contract With Exobiosphere
Voyager Technologies and Exobiosphere announced a mission management contract on the International Space Station (ISS) that marks a concrete step toward making automated biological research in microgravity commercially accessible to researchers, agencies, pharmaceutical and biotech partners. “Our mission management services exist to build a clear path for innovative ideas to become a reality in space,”…
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Interlune Awarded $6.9 Million Contract from NASA for Lunar Resource Development
Interlune, a natural resources company, announced a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III project with NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Game Changing Development (GCD) program for a lunar resource development effort. The sole-source contract is for a firm-fixed-price of $6.9 million over the next 18 months to develop a payload suite that will…
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Redwire Corporation Awarded ESA QKDSat Quantum-Secure Spacecraft Contract
Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defence technology solutions, announced that it has been awarded a contract to develop a quantum-secure satellite under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Quantum Key Distribution Satellite (QKDSat), within ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Partnership Projects program. Redwire will manufacture and deliver its European-built Hammerhead spacecraft,…
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Yuri GmbH Reserves Full First Year of Starlab Space for Microgravity Life Sciences Expansion
Starlab Space, the commercial space station developer expanding access to low Earth orbit research, announced a reservation from Yuri GmbH, a Germany-based space biotechnology company focused on enabling scalable life-science research and manufacturing in microgravity. The agreement reflects a shared commitment to advancing sustainable, commercial biotechnology capabilities in orbit beyond the International Space Station. Through…
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Yuri GmbH Reserves Full First Year of Starlab Space for Microgravity Life Sciences Expansion
Starlab Space, the commercial space station developer expanding access to low Earth orbit research, announced a reservation from Yuri GmbH, a Germany-based space biotechnology company focused on enabling scalable life-science research and manufacturing in microgravity. The agreement reflects a shared commitment to advancing sustainable, commercial biotechnology capabilities in orbit beyond the International Space Station. Through…
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ExLabs to Deliver ChibaTech Payloads on Deep-Space Apophis Mission
ExLabs has announced its partnership with Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology (ChibaTech) and its Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC) to send university-led payloads to the surface of asteroid Apophis during its rare near-Earth flyby in 2029. ApophisExL is the world’s first commercial deep-space rideshare and is supported by mission design and operations collaboration with NASA’s Jet…
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European Space Agency and Avio Partners for Reusable Upper Stage Demonstration Mission
European Space Agency and Avio signed a contract for 24 months of development activities aiming at the in-flight demonstration of a reusable upper stage. Frequent flights to space would benefit from completely reusable rockets, and this signature kicks off industrial activity to assess the technologies needed and design concepts for an upper-stage demonstration mission. Building…
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L3Harris Technologies Expands Florida Facility to Support America’s Golden Dome
L3Harris Technologies has completed a $100 million expansion at its satellite integration and test facility in Palm Bay to support the Department of Defense’s (DOD) urgent need for on-orbit technology for the Golden Dome for America. L3Harris’ new investment in Florida adds to the existing capability of the Space Coast and will enable key components…
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International Space Station Research Advances 3D Bioprinting for Artificial Livers
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is sending an investigation to the International Space Station (ISS) to explore how 3D bioprinted liver tissue constructs complete with vascular channels behave in microgravity. The project, sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory, is set to launch on SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services mission, contracted by NASA. …