Tag: Satellite
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How power is blazing a trail for America’s space effort — and for nuclear startups
An artist’s conception shows a nuclear thermal propulsion system at work in orbit (USNC-Tech Illustration) As more and more hardware goes into Earth orbit, and eventually to the moon and Mars, where will the power to run all those machines come from? That’s one of the questions under consideration at a State of the Space…
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SpaceX Transporter-10 Mission to Mark Apex’s Aries Spacecraft Maiden Flight
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft mass manufacturing company, announced its flagship product, the Aries satellite bus, will fly for the first time on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission, which is targeted for no earlier than January 2024. Apex builds productized satellite buses, starting with their flagship Aries spacecraft, capable of a maximum 200kg wet mass. Apex spacecrafts…
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NTT and SES Partner to Deliver NTT’s Edge and Private 5G Network Solutions Using SES Satellites
NTT Ltd., a global IT infrastructure and services company, and SES, a global content connectivity service provider via satellite, have announced a multi-year partnership to use SES satellites to deliver NTT’s Edge as a Service to enterprise customers. The collaboration will bring together NTT’s expertise in networking and enterprise-managed services with SES’s unique satellite capabilities to deliver reliable connectivity to…
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Astrolab Plans to Launch Moon Rover on SpaceX Starship
Lunar rover developer Astrolab has signed an agreement with SpaceX to transport its first rover to the moon on a future Starship flight. Astrolab said it has arranged to fly the Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover it is developing as a payload on a Starship lunar lander mission scheduled for as soon as mid-2026.…
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AAC Clyde Space’ Specialities Enhance Small Satellites and Services For Space
AAC Clyde Space is a space company that specializes in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organizations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life…
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Space Foundation to Hold 38th Space Symposium from April 17-20, 2023
Space Foundation is all set to hold its 38th Space Symposium, a premier event for global space professionals, from April 17-20, 2023 at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO USA. Year after year, the Space Symposium maintains its reputation as the “must attend” space industry event. The organizers have released all the details regarding the event.…
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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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China Deploys 4 InSAR Satellites and a New Yaogan Reconnaissance Satellite
China conducted a pair of launches sending interferometric synthetic aperture radar and reconnaissance satellites in orbit. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 6:50 a.m. Eastern, March 30, carrying four PIESAT-1 constellation satellites.The satellites are named PIESAT-1 (A-01) and PIESAT-1-B (01 through 03). The four X-band interferometric synthetic aperture…
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Berlin Space Technology Completes 30 Years in Developing Small Satellites in Space
Berlin Space Technologies (BST) is a specialist for small satellite systems and technology. They have build on a 30 year tradition of small satellites made in Berlin. BST is vertically integrated and offers reliable and cost-efficient end to end solutions for your mission. Till date BST has completed many successful small satellite missions. They have…
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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…