Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms
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Rocket Lab Signs Double Launch Deal with NASA for Climate Change Research Mission
Rocket Lab USA, a launch services and space systems company, announced it has signed a double-launch deal with NASA to deliver the Agency’s climate change research-focused mission, PREFIRE, to low Earth orbit in 2024. The two dedicated missions on Electron will deploy one small satellite each to a 525km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch…
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Momentus Awarded Innovation Research Contract from Space Development Agency
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has signed a contract with the U.S. Defense Department’s Space Development Agency (SDA) for a Small Business Innovation Research Award, “Orbital Service Vehicle Enhancements to Meet Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Requirements.” Under this award, Momentus will tailor the…
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York Space System Doubles its Satellite Production Capacity with Fourth New Facility
York Space Systems, the Denver-based aerospace company dedicated to the rapid deployment of complete space mission solutions, announced construction on its fourth production facility is complete, which will double York’s prolific existing production capacity, increasing capacity to more than 1,000 spacecraft per year to meet growing commercial and government demand. This new 60,000 sq ft…
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Blue Canyon Technologies Introduces Largest Form Factor in its CubeSat Product Line
Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), RTX’s small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, continues to meet the demand for increased payload size, weight, and power (SWaP) by introducing the XB16 CubeSat, now the largest form factor in its CubeSat product line. The XB16 CubeSat offers 14U of payload volume with a canister-dependent option for an additional 12,000…
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EnduroSat to Design and Build Vyoma’s Space Situational Awareness Satellite Constellation
EnduroSat and Vyoma have announced that they will be working together on Europe’s first commercial mission for in-situ space situational awareness (SSA). Vyoma will use in-orbit optical telescopes to observe space objects and map the orbital environment at a high frequency, thus providing SSA data and services with near-zero latency. EnduroSat will design and build…
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LeoStella Showcases New LS-300 Advanced Small Satellite Platform
LeoStella, a U.S.-based satellite design and manufacturing company, announced its third-generation small satellite bus product line, the LS-300. The LS-300 introduces significant payload accommodation and other enhanced capabilities. The LS-300 builds upon LeoStella’s successful reputation and accounts for the evolving expectations of government and commercial satellite customers. To date, LeoStella has 19 satellites in orbit,…
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NanoAvionics, RIKEN and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Collaborate on X-ray Observatory Launch
RIKEN, Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution, Mitsui Bussan Aerospace, and mission integrator Kongsberg NanoAvionics have announced their collaboration on the astronomical NinjaSat1 X-ray observatory mission. The aim of this two-year mission in a low Earth orbit (LEO) is to observe X-ray photons from bright X-ray objects in the universe. The NinjaSat team aims to observe…
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Momentus to Highlight its M-1000 Commercial Satellite Bus at Small Satellite 2023
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers commercial satellite buses and orbital transportation, and in-space infrastructure services, will be attending Small Satellite 2023 from August 5-10 in Logan, Utah. During the event, Momentus will be hosting a featured presentation to discuss its orbital transportation and hosted payload services, as well as its M-1000 satellite…
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Maxar Completes Critical Design Review for its Satellite Platform Developed for the SDA
Maxar Technologies, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, completed the first Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Maxar 300 series bus for L3Harris Technologies in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer (T1TRK) program. The T1TRK program is designed to provide global warning and tracking of conventional…
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SpaceX Transporter-8 to Deploy Six Satellites Manufactured by Kongsberg NanoAvionics into Orbit
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics), one of the leading smallsat bus manufacturers and mission integrators, has announced that six of its manufactured satellites are going into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission. One of them, Tiger-4, belonging to telecoms operator OQ Technology, will expand the world’s first and largest 5G Narrowband-IoT constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO). The…