Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms
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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…
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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…