Covington LA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) has unveiled Realm Cloud, an agile mobile device and data management (MDM) platform designed to enable VARs and customers with all the capabilities required to solve speed-to-market needs for deploying and building customized asset tracking and telematics solutions while lowering the cost of ownership. Designed for an ever-evolving future, Realm Cloud

Melbourne FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has announced a contract from Maxar Technologies to design and build reflector antennas for two geostationary communication satellites. The two nine-meter unfurlable mesh reflector antennas will provide high-power signals and improved service quality across the satellites' coverage areas. Similar to an umbrella, the flexible architecture of the antenna mak

Paris (ESA) Mar 09, 2023
Would you like to know the future of satellite navigation? Try ESA's Navigation Laboratory. This is a site where navigation engineers test prototypes of tomorrow's user receivers, using simulated versions of the navigation signals planned for the coming decade, such as set to be transmitted from Galileo's Second Generation satellites. Jose Antonio Garcia Molina, heading ESA's Radio Navigat

Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
SatixFy Communications Ltd. ("SatixFy") (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX), a leader in next-generation satellite communication technology solutions from chip to product, and Kythera Space Solutions ("Kythera"), the leader in dynamic management systems for next-generation payloads and SATCOM networks, announced that they have partnered to deliver advanced payload solutions for LEO constellations. Satix

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU) has been awarded a follow-on agreement for the next phase of NASA's Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications (ASTRA) project. During this phase of the ASTRA project, the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) team at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, will join Sidus Space to integrate ASTRA's autonomous operational on-orbit

Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. This water carries a chemical signature that explains the journey of water from star-forming gas clouds to planets, and supports the idea that water on Earth is even older than our Sun. "We can now trace the origins of water in our

East Lansing MI (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI-700 e. TOI-700 e is just over 100 light years from Earth - too far away for humans to visit - but we do know that it is similar in size to the Earth, likely rocky in composition and could potential

Herndon VA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a $150+ million competitive contract to provide advanced space-based tactical GEOINT-as-a-service to an international ministry of defense customer. "BlackSky is taking real-time, space-based tactical GEOINT to the next level with industry-leading rapid revisit capabilities and fully automated low-latency delivery of AI-derived mission intelligence,

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 8, 2021
The Relativity Space launcher Terran 1 postponed the launch of the first 3D-printed rocket to space on Wednesday. The rocket was to lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early in the afternoon, but after several delays, the operation was scrubbed. The launch system automatically aborted during countdown with about 70 seconds to go twice. During the second stoppage, the sy