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ESAIL captures two million messages from ships at sea
Mar 31, 2021 (ESA)
The reliable high-performance satellite was developed as an ESA Partnership Project to help European and Canadian space companies succeed in the competitive glo...
Rogue taps NanoAvionics for key satellite bus systems
Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)
Established in 2020, Rogue Space is building a fleet of Orbital Robots (Orbots) equipped with highly sophisticated sensors, cameras, robotics and artificial int...
NanoAvionics expands into microsatellite market with MP42 bus
Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)
NanoAvionics' microsatellite buses are the latest addition to the company's end-to-end smallsat mission infrastructure aimed at constellations, covering mission...
UNSW Canberra Space launches world-leading CubeSat satellites
Mar 23, 2021 (SPX)
The M2 mission, a collaboration between UNSW Canberra Space and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), brings together emerging technologies that deliver advanc...
Russian launches 38 satellites into orbit from Baikonur
Mar 19, 2021 (Sputnik)
The launch of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre has been postponed until Sunday, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos' chief, Dmitr...
Russia to test world's 1st ultra-light optics for nanosatellites in space
Mar 19, 2021 (Sputnik)
"Ultralight optical systems for remote sensing of Earth, developed by scientists of the Samara University named after [famed Soviet rocket engineer Sergei] Koro...
New 3D Printed CubeSat measures electromagnetic effects of space storms
Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)
The CubeSat's small size and particular geometries, including strict mass and volume limitations, prompted the Lightning, Atmosphere, Ionosphere and Radiation B...
DcubeD to release its new deployable SPACE SELFIE STICK (D3S3)
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
How can high-quality promotional images of your satellite be obtained directly from space? How can your satellite's health be monitored and its problems trouble...
GomSpace and J.P. Morgan test blockchain transaction on GOMX-4 constellation
Feb 26, 2021 (SPX)
GomSpace and J.P. Morgan successfully executed a transaction between two low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, which validated the approach towards a decentralized ...
Satellite designed and built by MSU students sent to space station
Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)
The bread loaf-sized satellite, called by the acronym IT-SPINS, will dock at the space station until later this spring, then be propelled into orbit and commenc...
Nanoracks launches two cubesats on NG-15 Cygnus
Feb 22, 2021 (SPX)
This launch is Nanoracks' ninth mission providing opportunities for CubeSat deployment from the Cygnus. The CubeSats onboard today's launch, IT-SPINS and MySat-...
Spaceflight readies its largest satellite contracted to date, Amazonia-1, for Launch
Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)
The spacecraft was produced by INPE, the National Institute for Space Research (in Portuguese: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais), Brazil's leading enti...
Space Flight Laboratory to build the NorSat Technology Demonstrator microsat
Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)
SFL, which developed the operational NorSat-1 and -2 microsatellites launched in 2017, as well as NorSat-3 expected to launch in Q2 2021, has been contracted to...
Proba-V's plus one
Feb 12, 2021 (ESA)
The mission is a 12-unit 'CubeSat' - a small, low-cost satellite built up from standardised 10-cm boxes. It will fly a cut-down version of the vegetation-monito...
Spaceflight Inc. deploys 16 payloads on SpaceX Transporter-1 Mission
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
Spaceflight managed the end-to-end launch experience for 10 cubesats, four microsats and two hosted payloads. Customers onboard the launch represented both comm...
Nanoracks completes first SpaceX Rideshare Mission
Jan 24, 2021 (SPX)
Nanoracks' first rideshare mission, dubbed "Eyries-1," marks the Company's entrance into the rideshare brokering market and the broadening of services for Nanor...
Exolaunch delivers 30 small sats on SpaceX's first dedicated rideshare launch
Jan 24, 2021 (SPX)
Zeitgeist kicked-off the first of several rideshares Exolaunch will manifest on Falcon 9 as part of a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX. On this mission, Exola...
NanoAvionics' built satellite for Aurora Insight to fly on SpaceX's Transporter 1 mission
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
The nanosatellite, nicknamed "Charlie", forms one half of the two-satellite mission contract awarded to NanoAvionics by Aurora Insight, headquartered in Denver,...
Leaf Space reaches 10 million euro funding
Jan 18, 2021 (SPX)
Leaf Space will use the funding to further develop its ground segment services for microsatellite operators in the NewSpace economy and globally scale up its bu...
Brown student satellite ends its mission after 14,000 orbits of Earth
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
Amateur radio operators in Michigan and New Jersey picked up the last two transmissions from the satellite, called EQUiSat, in the early morning hours Saturday....
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