Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms
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Terran Orbital Secures $45 Million IDIQ Contract from NASA for Space Technology Advancement
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced being awarded an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a $45 million ceiling value with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The Directorate is comprised of NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and the Small Spacecraft Technology program. The five-year agreement…
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Satellites Built by NanoAvionics Successfully Launched on SpaceX Transporter-10 Mission
Kongsberg NanoAvionics, one of the leading smallsat bus manufacturers and mission integrators, has announced that four of its manufactured satellites are in orbit following the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission launch. NanoAvionics’s three customers on this rideshare mission are Luxembourg’s OQ Technology, the world’s first global satellite 5G IoT (Internet of Things) operator, Spanish Earth observation (EO)…
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Apex Achieves Historic Success with the Launch of First Production Unit of Flagship Aries Bus
Apex Space, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, announced the confirmed success of Aries SN1, their first production build of Apex’s productized ESPA-class satellite bus. After launching on SpaceX’s Falcon-9 on March 4, Apex’s vehicle is communicating bidirectionally with its ground stations and is healthy. Apex specializes in building productized satellite buses, starting with their…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat Successfully Launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare Mission
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company announced its LizzieSat satellite has successfully launched and deployed to low Earth orbit as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission. Liftoff occurred at 2:05 p.m. PDT on 3 March 2024, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The successful deployment…
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Terran Orbital Awarded $15.2 Million US Space Force Contract to Supply Satellite Platforms
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced it was awarded a $15.2 million contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms complete with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL. The contract, managed through Axient Corporation, will integrate payloads…
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Axelspace Successfully Launches PYXIS Demonstration Satellite
Axelspace Corporation announced the successful launch and orbital insertion of the demonstration satellite “PYXIS,” marking another milestone in the company’s history. PYXIS was launched on March 4, 2024 (PST) on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base (California, USA). Axelspace has received the first voice transmission*1 from PYXIS. It will now proceed through the…
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Rocket Lab Unveils Updated Lineup of Advanced Spacecraft Bus
Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, introduced its family of spacecraft buses, consolidating the custom designs Rocket Lab has developed for multiple customers and missions. The family of spacecraft is the result of more than four years of development into Rocket Lab’s space systems capabilities. “We’ve had the privilege…
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Sidus Space Delivers Crucial Onboard Computing Flight Hardware to European Partner
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company announced the successful completion of its contract to deliver critical flight hardware to a prominent European space company. The delivered hardware includes the FeatherEdge edge computing units, which will serve as the onboard computer for the customer’s spacecraft. The FeatherEdge flight units provided by Sidus Space…
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Terran Orbital’s CAPSTONE Nanosatellite Surpasses 450 Days of Lunar Operations
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global company in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced that its 12U nanosatellite built for Advanced Space’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission in support of NASA, has surpassed 450 days in orbit around the moon. Launched June 28, 2022, the space…
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Sidus Space Successfully Integrates NASA ASTRA Engineering Unit into LizzieSat FlatSat
Sidus Space, a Space, and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that it has completed the integration and testing of the NASA ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications) Engineering Unit into the Company’s LizzieSat FlatSat located at the Sidus Integration Facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Sidus team successfully completed extensive integration testing and communications with…