COLORADO SPRINGS – Through government-backed lunar missions, companies are identifying customers for future flights.

COLORADO SPRINGS – Through government-backed lunar missions, companies are identifying customers for future flights.

GomSpace, a Danish smallsat maker, announced plans April 8 to integrate space traffic management tools from Portugal’s Neuraspace into its satellite operations platform to help avoid collisions in increasingly congested orbits.

The first nine missions are worth $1.27 billion in contracts

The company was selected for a public-private agreement known as Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI)

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The first of the new generation of MetOp satellites, MetOp-SG Satellite-A, together with the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, are now ready to be shipped to their launch site. But before the last leg of their terrestrial journey, they were on display to the media at Airbus’s facilities in Toulouse, France.

People will communicate up to a thousand times faster using high-capacity optical links between satellites, thanks to a partnership agreed today between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Space Compass Corporation in Japan.

NASA is developing options for restructuring and potentially downsizing the agency, with the final decisions to be left to the agency’s next leader.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Despite political uncertainty about the future of NASA’s overall effort to return humans to the moon, the hardware for the next Artemis mission continues to […]

COLORADO SPRINGS – Aitech Systems, a California company known for military and aerospace electronics, revealed plans for a picosatellite that will be used for artificial-intelligence applications.