Colorado Springs (AFP) April 5, 2022
Amazon on Tuesday announced deals for scores of launches to deploy a "constellation" of satellites in low orbit around the Earth to provide internet service to people below. Amazon said that its contracts with Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history. The overall cost and timing of launches booked to ma

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Falls Church VA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
Airbus Defence and Space together with Northrop Grumman and seven industrial players forming the ASPAARO (Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations) team have been selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to conduct one of three Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS). The studies aim to suggest technical solutions for the Alliance Future

Austin TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building world-class space simulation and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability, has been awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract from the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) Space Systems Command with strategic support from SpaceWERX. The contract will facilitate delivery of two key Slingshot Aerospace products: the company's Digital Space Twi

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
SpiderOak Mission Systems and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space's Mission Solutions business are developing and testing a zero-trust cybersecurity platform to secure data across the space data supply chain. The two companies have signed an agreement to field key components of the SpiderOak OrbitSecure platform. OrbitSecure allows national security and civil space agencies to harness the commerci

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
It all began in 2003 with a competition announced by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center as part of the National Space Programme. The task was to design and build a new type of hyperspectral instrument and a satellite to carry it, and to test both the instrument and its satellite for several years in the harsh conditions of space. At the same time, an (inter)national com

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
HENSOLDT Cyber will supply its high security IT operating system TRENTOS to Beyond Gravity's for its latest satellite computer . The company's say this will ensure a high level of IT security for satellites is at the heart of today's efforts to make satellites more robust and reliable. "As satellites have become increasingly critical to the infrastructure of modern society, there is an inc

Herndon VA (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
BlackSky's (NYSE: BKSY) newest satellites successfully began revenue-generating commercial operations for customers, taking high-resolution images and creating analytics within a company record of 12 hours after launch. The company expanded its constellation from 12 to 14 high-resolution satellites following the successful RocketLab launch Without Mission a Beat" on Saturday, April 2. Th

New York NY (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, has announced the launch of five additional spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellites were delivered to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-4 mission on April 1, 2022 onboard the Falcon 9 reusable, two-stage rocket, under SpaceX's Rideshare program. All fi

Redmond WA (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service, has announced it has acquired the assets of Kubos Corporation and its Major Tom mission and flight control software platform for satellites. Major Tom enables mission operations for more than a dozen satellites currently on orbit for commercial and government customers. In a seamless transition to Xplore, key Kubos emplo