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DARPA awards Spire Global contract to design satellite
Nov 02, 2022 (SPX)
The award is part of DARPA's Ouija program, which aims to use sensors on satellites to provide new insights into high-frequency (HF) radio wave propagation in t...
Sweden's MATS satellite set to Launch Carrying AAC Clyde Space Solutions
Nov 02, 2022 (SPX)
MATS is a Swedish scientific satellite mission which will use optical measurements techniques to investigate atmospheric waves in the mesosphere with the aim to...
Mini-radar for asteroid CubeSat
Oct 28, 2022 (ESA)
This radar instrument, connected to a quartet of 1.5 m-long antenna booms, will be flown aboard the aircraft-carry-on-sized Juventas CubeSat, which will in turn...
Ascent satellite marks end of mission objectives
Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)
Ascent, launched Dec. 7, 2021, is a 12-unit CubeSat developed within the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate's Small Satellite Portfolio at Kirtland Air Force Base,...
DART Mission photos came from NASA's first use of Argotec microsatellite
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
Argotec Mission Control Centre in Turin, Italy, received the first pictures from LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids) a few hours after impac...
Ad-block this: Advertisers ready to hit you with commercials from space
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
"We've been studying some of the more technical aspects of space advertising for a while now," said the study's first author Shamil Biktimirov, a research inter...
Concert Technologies to use C6 Launch to launch its satellites
Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)
Richard McCammon, CEO of C6 Launch, says, "Concert uses small satellites to provide valuable solutions to their customers and represents the next wave of satell...
Maritime Launch and Nanoracks partner with Ukraine to develop a cubesat program for Ukrainian Universities
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
Once developed, teams of professors and students in Ukraine will have the unique opportunity to design and build their own miniature satellite called a "CubeSat...
Momentus First Demonstration Mission Status Update #5
Sep 09, 2022 (SPX)
Since the Company's last update on August 3, Momentus has successfully deployed an additional payload from its Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle. SelfieSat, a t...
Surrey Satellite opens new Australian office
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
As the pioneer of the small satellite industry, SSTL designs and manufactures payloads, subsystems and equipment in-house and have supported over twenty countri...
UK built Prometheus 2 imaging and monitoring cubesats on track for UK launch
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
The Prometheus 2 cubesats are owned by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). They have been co-funded...
Skyroot Aerospace raises $51 Million led by GIC to propel the new future of small satellite launches
Sep 02, 2022 (SPX)
As part of the investment, Mayank Rawat, Managing Director of GIC India Direct Investment Group, will join Skyroot's Board. "We are proud to welcome one of the ...
Terran Orbital concludes final launch preparations for LunIR
Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)
Terran Orbital designed, built, and integrated LunIR under contract with Lockheed Martin, who developed the sensor payload. The satellite's SLS launch integrati...
NASA Artemis1 to carry ASU CubeSat into space
Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)
It is also unknown how much water-ice might be retained at depth throughout illuminated regions of the lunar South Pole. LunaH-Map will answer those questions b...
First of NASA's SunRISE smallsats rolls off production line
Aug 19, 2022 (JPL)
In anticipation of the planned 2024 launch of SunRISE - short for Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment - the first of those small satellites has already be...
NanoAvionics extends its satellite bus range enabling advanced space missions
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
Designed to significantly reduce mechanical constraints for payload integration, the satellites across the new bus range are variously ideal for more sophistica...
NASA Announces New CubeSat Launch Initiative Partnership Opportunities
Aug 10, 2022 (SPX)
"Small satellites, such as CubeSats play a valuable role in the agency's educational, science, and technology investigations, including planetary exploration, E...
NASA's Moon-observing CubeSat ready for launch
Aug 09, 2022 (SPX)
The satellite is integrated into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and ready to journey to the Moon as part of the uncrewed Artemis I mission, launching this...
Blue Canyon Technologies opens new factory dedicated to manufacturing cubesats
Aug 05, 2022 (SPX)
The expanded 31,000-square-foot facility consolidates manufacturing efforts with dedicated CubeSat employees to build large spacecraft constellations and increa...
Momentus First Demonstration Mission Status Update #4
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
Momentus initially deployed two customer satellites from its Vigoride-3 Orbital Transfer Vehicle on May 28. The most recent deployments of four additional custo...
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