Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms

Smallsat mission integrator and bus manufacturer Kongsberg NanoAvionics has appointed Atle Wøllo as its new CEO. Wøllo is replacing Žilvinas Kvedaravicius, who became interim CEO last year, following the departure of co-founder and former CEO Vytenis J. Buzas in 2023. Wøllo, with educational background in business administration and electronic engineering, comes from Kongsberg Defence &…

RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, was selected to build two 12U CubeSat buses for NASA’s PolSIR mission, which will study ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. In addition to designing and manufacturing the bus platforms, Blue Canyon will also provide mission operations services.…

RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission will measure the amount of heat Earth emits into space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Blue Canyon provided two heritage 6U CubeSats…

Terran Orbital Corporation, one of global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the expansion of its capabilities under NASA’s long-standing multi-participant Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid IV) Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract. NASA has on-ramped two additional space vehicle platforms, which could position Terran Orbital as a premier partner for the…

Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that its high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) delivery platform, FeatherEdge successfully transmitted data back down to Earth for the first time on May 24, 2024. The LizzieSat-1 mission demonstrated FeatherEdge’s ability to upload new algorithms post-launch, run a machine vision algorithm on the hardware accelerator capable…

Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it has been awarded a NASA/JPL contract to conduct a study to conceptualize a Redwire-led commercial Mars spacecraft, which will utilize Redwire’s heritage spacecraft technology to provide surface imagery to industry and government customers. The study could be…

Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, celebrated the 3rd anniversary of its successful GEOStare SV2 mission. Launched on May 15, 2021, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, GEOStare SV2 has surpassed expectations, delivering exceptional results for commercial satellite imagery. Pioneering Technology for…

Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company announced that it has begun payload activation upon successful completion of its commissioning phase of LizzieSat-1 (LS-1). LS-1 was successfully launched and deployed via SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SLC-4 on March 4, 2024.  The Sidus team successfully completed the Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP)…