Tag: Sensors
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NASA Science and Hardware Launch Aboard SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Mission to the ISS
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are on the way to the International Space Station, including studies of technologies to measure sea ice and plant growth in space. SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the…
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SkyServe Partners with Loft Orbital to Deploy its AI-Edge Computing Platform on YAM-6
SkyServe and Loft Orbital have joined forces for Mission Denali to deploy SkyServe STORM, SkyServe’s in-space edge computing platform on YAM-6. Mission Denali will leverage Sensing and Compute Resources on YAM-6 to deliver insights from space. By processing multispectral and hyperspectral data in real time, SkyServe STORM is defining the paradigm of space-based data processing, delivering…
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ExoAnalytic Launches Advanced Tracking Service for Satellite Operations in GEO
ExoAnalytic Solutions, a pioneer in commercial space domain awareness (SDA) solutions, launched ExoTrack, a tracking service for operators of satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The precision ephemeris and safety of flight service provided by ExoTrack for geosynchronous orbit operations bring new levels of reliability and cost-effectiveness. Piloted and proven with select companies over the past year,…
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General Atomics Awarded Lockheed Martin Contract to Deliver Missile Tracking Payloads
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it was awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Space to deliver missile warning, tracking, and defense payloads to support the company’s recently announced contract award to deliver 18 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Tracking Layer Program. GA-EMS is developing the Electro Optical and Infrared (EO/IR)…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat Satellite Scheduled for Launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Mission
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company announced its LizzieSat satellite is now securely encapsulated within SpaceX’s payload fairing in preparation for launch. LizzieSat is targeted to launch as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission no earlier than March 2024 from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Orbital Debris Inspection Satellite for Astroscale
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, launched its 44th Electron rocket, successfully deploying an orbital debris inspection satellite for Astroscale Japan. The mission, named “On Closer Inspection”, launched from Pad B at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 03:52 NZDT on February 19th, 2024…
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US Department of Defense Launches Five Missile Tracking Satellites Designed by L3Harris
Five missile tracking satellites L3Harris Technologies designed and built successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, as part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program and the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 (T0) Tracking Layer program. L3Harris’ HBTSS satellite is an on-orbit prototype demonstration that can track maneuvering…
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Sidus Space Publishes New U.S. Patent Application for LizzieSat Platform
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space, and Data-as-a-Service company, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published U.S. Patent Application No. 2023/0406548-A1 (the ‘548 patent application). The ‘548 patent application enhances the robust IP portfolio of Sidus by seeking additional patent protection on even more functionality of the LizzieSat Modular Satellite Platform System. We…
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NanoAvionics Awarded Contract by Los Alamos National Laboratory for GTO Mission
The 12U (1U equals 10×10×10 cm3) spacecraft, about the size of a microwave oven, will host the Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis (ESRA) mission. ESRA is the latest of a series of Demonstration and Validation missions built by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with the focus of this mission on testing next-generation charged particle sensors…
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Lockheed Martin Secures Contract for 18 SDA Tranche 2 Satellites
The Space Development Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to build 18 space vehicles as part of its Tranche 2 Tracking Layer constellation. Lockheed Martin will provide 16 wide field-of-view missile warning/missile tracking space vehicles with infrared sensors and two space vehicles with missile defense infrared sensors that can generate fire control-quality tracks to…