An American subsidiary, Telesat U.S. Services, of Canadian global FSS operator Telesat was awarded a satellite production contract on 14 October. The contract was handed down by the US DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), a military technology research...
Every year a city gets the honour present to the world space community the latest news, technology and – dare we say it – political moves involved in the performance of human and unmanned spaceflight. This year it was supposed to be in Dubai – a move...
Lifting-off from the Van Horn facility, Texas, at 1335 GMT 13 October a Blue Origin New Shepard booster completed its seventh consecutive mission. Whilst this flight was the seventh for this booster in particular, it marks the thirteenth overall for the “New...
The Space Development Agency (SDA), USA, on 5 October announced it had awarded satellite development contracts to two companies. The contracts cover the inaugural, “Tranche 0”, satellites for a planned missile warning and tracking constellation. US...
Finland-based, ICEYE, announced on 22 September 2020 the completion of its Series C round of financing, raising US$87 million. ICEYE was formed in 2014 to develop SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) capabilities in a microsatellite package. Its first satellite, ICEYE X1,...
Picosat manufacturer FOSSA Systems signed a service agreement deal during September 2020 with the launch arranger Momentus for the firm to have two of its PocketPod deployers to be launched on the second “Vigoride” mission on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch...
