Tag: Reaction Wheels
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Rocket Lab Introduces High-Accuracy Star Tracker for Radiation-Intense Environments
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced its next-generation High-Performance Star Tracker (ST-HP), designed to improve key performance metrics for longer duration spacecraft missions in low Earth orbit and beyond. The High-Performance Star Tracker combines enhanced resilience with a targeted pointing accuracy of better than 1 arcsecond, ideal for…
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Impulse Space Advances Orbital Operations with Mira High-Thrust Maneuverable Spacecraft
Impulse Space is expanding the spacecraft portfolio with Mira, a high-performance, maneuverable spacecraft designed to support payload hosting, deployment and dynamic orbital operations across multiple orbital regimes. Engineered for flexibility and responsiveness, Mira is built to enable missions that require precise maneuvering, rapid retasking and high delta-v performance in increasingly complex space environments. With a…
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RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies Expands Reaction Wheel Production Capacity
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, part of RTX’s Raytheon business, is increasing reaction wheel production capacity to support growing demand for spacecraft subsystems and components. The company has allocated more than $1 million to expand production capability from 650 reaction wheels per year to 2,400 wheels per year – a…
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Space Inventor and GATE Space Partners to Advance Defence Space with BEACONSAT
Nations across the world are facing a growing and largely invisible threat: the disruption and manipulation of satellite navigation signals through jamming and spoofing. To address this challenge, Danish satellite manufacturer Space Inventor is partnering with Austrian propulsion specialist GATE Space on the BEACONSAT mission – Austria’s largest domestically developed satellite and the country’s first…
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Rocket Lab Secures CSA Funding to Develop Reaction Wheel for Medium-Class Satellites
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has been awarded funding by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop a new medium-class reaction wheel, with a targeted minimum angular momentum capacity of 25 Nms, designed to support 500kg – 1,000kg satellites with larger payloads operating in low Earth…
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SFL Missions to Build RADICALS Satellite for Climate-Radiation Study
SFL Missions Inc. has been awarded a contract by the University of Alberta for the development of the RADICALS small satellite to study the transport of space radiation into Earth’s atmosphere and its impact on climate. The Radiation Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Loss Satellite (RADICALS) mission is being designed by a consortium of Canadian…
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Rocket Lab Mars-Bound Spacecraft Reach Florida for Upcoming Launch
Rocket Lab Corporation, a leading launch and space systems company, delivered two Explorer-class spacecraft to Kennedy Space Flight Center for NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory. Last year Rocket Lab completed the design, build, integration, and testing of the twin…
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Surrey Satellite Technology: Driving Innovation in Small Satellite Platforms
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), a pioneer in small satellite innovation, has been at the forefront of the global space industry for four decades. Headquartered in Guildford, UK, SSTL has consistently delivered cost-effective, high-performance satellite solutions for Earth observation, communications, navigation, and scientific research. The company’s ability to combine advanced technology with agile development processes…
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Astrofein: Shaping the Future of Space Industry with Precision
Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH (Astrofein), a world-leading manufacturer of high-precision space components, is at the forefront of powering the next generation of satellite missions. With a space heritage of over 25 years, the company is renowned for its innovative and highly reliable products that are essential for the precise attitude control and deployment of…
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Impulse Space Upgrades Mira Vehicle for GEO and Deep-Space Missions
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, revealed details of the upgraded version of Mira: the company’s high-thrust, highly maneuverable spacecraft for payload hosting and deployment. With two successful missions behind it already, Mira has showcased responsive, record-setting maneuverability in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The upgraded design delivers higher performance for even more challenging orbital regimes,…