Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms

Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that in partnership with NASA Stennis Space Center, the primary objectives of the NASA Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications (“ASTRA”) payload mission were successfully met on July 1, 2024. Collaborating closely with the NASA Stennis Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL) team, Sidus Space conducted extensive…

Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to support its zero-debris objectives for 2030 through immediate evolutions to Europe’s spacecraft buses, starting with Thales Alenia Space’s multi-mission MILA platform. This new-generation bus will enable satellites to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere at the end of their life, significantly reducing proliferation…

Northrop Grumman Corporation, one of the leading global aerospace and defense technology companies, delivered its two-satellite constellation to the launch site for Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM). These satellites will bring commercial broadband and protected military satellite communications to the hard-to-reach northern polar region. ASBM uses Northrop Grumman’s GEOStar-3 hosting platform and to…

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to develop and build the nation’s next generation weather satellite constellation, Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO), for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The baseline contract is for three spacecraft with options for four additional spacecraft. The total estimated value of the contract including options is $2.27 billion. The GeoXO…

Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company has announced the successful demonstration of an advanced software solution supported by its FeatherEdge technology aboard its LizzieSat satellite, which launched in March 2024 on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission. This innovation, achieved in collaboration with XIOMAS TECHNOLOGIES, represents a significant milestone in the NASA-funded initiative to develop…

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.…