KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s and Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project have successfully conducted the first end-to-end demonstration of key hardware for the Arachne flight experiment. A ground demonstration of novel components for the “sandwich tile” were used to successfully convert solar energy to radio […]
Benchmark’s High-Performance Propulsion System Integrated with Spaceflight’s First Sherpa-LTC OTV Ahead of Historic Multi-Orbit Rideshare Missions Benchmark’s Halcyon Avant Bi-Propellant System Completes Hot Fire Tests, Awaits Full OTV-Falcon 9 Integration Burlington, Vermont – December 21, 2021 – With milestone hot fire engine tests of its Halcyon Avant non-toxic chemical propulsion system completed at its Pleasanton, […]
WESTMINSTER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, today announced contract extensions with three long-standing international defense and intelligence customers. The three agreements total more than $100 million and extend these customers’ ability to directly task and download 30 cm-class satellite imagery to their ground stations […]
LOS ANGELES, December 20, 2021 – Mynaric has been selected to work on the architectural design of a next-generation optical communications terminal as part of the phase 0 of the Space Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA’s Space-BACN program envisions an optical communications terminal that could be reconfigured to work with most of today’s optical intersatellite link standards allowing seamless communication among government and private-sector proprietary satellites. The selection for […]
MELBOURNE, Fla. — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite. Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can […]
MELBOURNE, Fla. — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has delivered its fourth imager to NASA, completing the series of advanced weather sensors for NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and lays the groundwork for future imager programs. The fourth Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) will be integrated into the GOES-U satellite, slated to launch in 2024, and […]
Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission, with the first all-private crew to ever visit the International Space Station (ISS), ushers in a new era of accessibility, commercialization, and increased science on the orbiting laboratory. The Ax-1 mission patch incorporates these components as the core elements of the crew’s insignia and defines a watershed moment in human space […]
