Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms
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Dragonfly Aerospace Unveils New High-Performance Imaging Satellite Bus for Scientific Applications
Dragonfly Aerospace, one of the leading manufacturers of cutting-edge imaging satellites and payloads has unveiled a new high-performance imaging satellite bus for scientific applications. The DRAGONFLY BUS from Dragonfly Aerospace is a 200 kg satellite bus that is designed for precise spatial resolution earth imaging and mapping for a wide range of communicational and scientific…
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LeoStella Delivers its Third Satellite to Loft Orbital Solutions
LeoStella, a U.S.-based satellite design and manufacturing company, has delivered its third satellite to Loft Orbital Solutions. The spacecraft is the 20th satellite manufactured by LeoStella since its formation in 2019. This latest satellite was modeled on LeoStella’s LS-100 bus platform and delivered to Loft Orbital. Loft Orbital extended its production agreement with LeoStella to…
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C3S Pioneers in Developing and Manufacturing Robust Platforms and Subsystems for Satellites
C3S is a determining player in the international nanosatellite industry whose products and solutions serve and support both scientific payloads and industrial demands throughout the missions. Their mission planning activity encompasses 3-16U, high-reliability platform, and subsystem design, as well as the prelaunch simulation software and hardware development and mission operation environment development. They develop and…
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NanoAvionics Introduces New Multi-purpose Satellite Bus for Nanosatellites
NanoAvionics, a small satellite mission integrator focused on delivering new generation satellite buses and their mission services for the satellite applications market has introduced a new high-performance multi-purpose satellite bus for nanosatellites. The M16P from NanoAvionics is a highly versatile bus whose performance capabilities are optimized for IoT, M2M, AIS, and ADS-B applications and has…
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Rocket Lab Ships Completed Custom-Built Photon Spacecraft for Varda Space Industries
Rocket Lab USA, a global manufacturer in launch services and space systems, announced it has completed and shipped a custom Photon spacecraft developed for Varda Space Industries, a space manufacturing, and hypersonic re-entry logistics company. The Rocket Lab-designed and built Photon spacecraft will provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120kg capsule that will…
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C3S Introduces a New 3U Satellite Platform for Earth Observation Applications
C3S, a company that develops and manufactures highly dependable 3/6/12/16U platforms and subsystems like OBC, EPS, and communication modules to meet the requirements of IoT, Earth Observation, and space monitoring constellation missions has introduced a new 3U Satellite Platform. The 3U platform from C3S is a CubeSat platform with a 5-year design lifetime in LEO.…
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Kongsberg NanoAvionics Showcases New Magnetorquer for CubeSats
Kongsberg NanoAvionics, a small satellite mission integrator focused on delivering new generation satellite buses and their mission services for the satellite applications market has introduced a new Magnetorquer for CubeSats and nanosats. Magnetorquers “SatBus MTQ”, designed by NanoAvionics, is a set of two (X and Y-axis) magnetorquer rods and one air core Z-axis magnetorquer coil…
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ISTSat-1 Nanosatellite Successfully Passes Thermal Vacuum Tests
ISTSat-1, the first Portuguese CubeSat, has completed its crucial structural qualification and thermal-vacuum tests as part of the Fly Your Satellite! Program, and is now one step closer to its launch. The CubeSat ISTsat-1 is the first-ever nanosatellite designed by students from the University of Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico and is part of the second…
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Sidus Space Awarded New Contract for Next Phase of NASA ASTRA Project
Sidus Space, a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and space-based data collection was awarded a follow-on agreement for the next phase of NASA’s Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications (ASTRA) project. During this phase of the ASTRA project, the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near…
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Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Invests $23 Million in Satellite Servicing Company
Astroscale Holdings Inc, one of the market leaders in satellite servicing and long-term sustainability across all orbits, has received an investment of U.S. $23 million from Yusaku Maezawa, the first private Japanese citizen to visit the International Space Station (ISS). “Mr. Maezawa’s investment is a testament to the importance of space sustainability, and we…