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7,000 small satellites to be launched over coming decade
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
"By 2022, an average of 580 smallsats will be launched every year as a result of initial constellation deployment. This compares to an annual average of 190 sat...
Laser Communications Demonstrated From Cubesats For The First Time
Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)
The laser communication system, carried by the two low-Earth-orbiting OCSD CubeSats also known as AeroCube-7B and Aerocube-7C, successfully transmitted data at ...
Flood detection a surprising capability of microsatellites mission
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
The flood maps are possible thanks to one of the innovations of the CYGNSS constellation. The microwave signal the CYGNSS satellites use to detect wind speed ba...
Nanosatellite mission control station launched in South Australia
Jul 30, 2018 (The Lead)
The ground station, opened today at Pinkerton Plains, 80km north of Adelaide, completes the mission control centre built at Fleet's headquarters in South Austra...
Kleos Space signs contract with GomSpace for the supply of nanosatellites
Jul 27, 2018 (SPX)
The signature follows the announcement of an authorisation to proceed with GomSpace in March 2018. The contract value (includes R and D, test equipment and laun...
NanoRacks completes external Cygnus deployment, 6 more cubesats in orbit
Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)
The ninth contracted resupply mission from Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) launched on May 21, 2018, carrying NanoRacks' fifth mission pro...
GomSpace and AISTECH sign new agreement
Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)
The first part of the contract, for 6 standard nanosatellite platforms, is a follow-on order of 4 platforms ordered in September 2017, according to the Framewor...
NanoRacks Completes 14th CubeSat Deployment Mission from International Space Station
Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)
The CubeSats deployed were launched to the Space Station on the ninth contracted resupply mission for Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) from...
Astrocast signs contract with GomSpace Sweden to deliver propulsion systems
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
The Swiss company Astrocast is one of the leading pioneers in deploying nanosatellites to create a global Internet of Things (IoT) network. This will be the fir...
GomSpace signs cubesat contract with ESA
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
The Rendezvous Autonomous CubeSats Experiment (RACE) Mission has been conceived by ESA to contribute to system concepts such as autonomous on-orbit assembly of ...
NanoRacks deploys largest satellite yet from ISS
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
RemoveDEBRIS, one of the world's first attempts to address the build-up of dangerous space debris orbiting Earth, was launched to the Space Station via NanoRack...
Spaceflight to launch smallsats for Canon Electronics and BlackSky
Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)
he second mission will launch satellites from commercial and government organizations in early 2019, and the third mission, also scheduled for early 2019, will ...
Zero 2 Infinity opens new investment round through Crowdcube
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
The Crowdcube campaign is open to everyone who signs up to the platform, with the minimum investment set at 25 pounds. Since inception, Z2I has received over 5 ...
NASA CubeSats Steer Toward Mars
Jun 03, 2018 (JPL)
This process, called a trajectory correction maneuver, allows a spacecraft to refine its path to Mars following launch. Both CubeSats successfully completed thi...
NanoRacks Launches 15 CubeSats, New Commercial Customers, on Latest Space Station Cargo Resupply Launch
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
This is the fifth mission in which NanoRacks is providing opportunities for CubeSat deployment from Cygnus after the vehicle departs from the station. The NanoR...
Small Packages to Test Big Space Technology Advances
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
NASA has been increasing its use of CubeSats - small satellites based on several configurations of approximately 4 x 4 x 4-inch cubes - to put new technologies ...
Vector marks 2 years working with DARPA
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
Since the company's founding in 2016, Vector has conducted a series of increasingly more advanced engine tests, further demonstrating the company's launch vehic...
Kenya Steps Into Space with First Satellite Launch
May 16, 2018 (VOA)
Kenyans cheered as a live stream broadcast Friday at the University of Nairobi showed the country's first homemade satellite being launched from the Internation...
Tiny Satellite's First Global Map of Ice Clouds
May 16, 2018 (SPX)
An experimental small satellite has filled this void and captured the first global picture of the small frozen particles inside clouds, normally called ice clou...
Low-cost Operations Help Drive the Small-satellites Launch Market towards $62 Billion by 2030
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
By 2030, there will be an estimated 11,631 launch demands for new constellation installations and replacement missions, which could take the market past the $62...
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