Space News & Articles

New ISR Satellites For Space-Enabled Warfighting

Lockheed Martin’s LM 400-based tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellites will enable warfighters to track moving targets at long ranges, shortening the find-fix-finish kill chain

Apr 22, 2021
Space Pyrotechnic Valves Enable Precise Landing of NASA Perseverance Rover

Cobham Mission Systems’ pyrovalves ensured the isolation of combustion products until they were needed, releasing fuel on cue and enabling precise navigation and landing of the Perseverance rover

Mar 19, 2021
3rd Generation Telemetry Receivers for NASA Psyche Mission

The advanced telemetry receiver from GDP Space Systems provides comprehensive multi-link support for satellite and flight test ground station applications in a fully integrated package

Mar 03, 2021
Next-Generation AI Platform for Space-based Global Monitoring

BlackSky will expand its Spectra AI platform to develop a responsive system that can automatically monitor large-scale construction such as military bases and airports

Jan 26, 2021
MBMM Phased Array Ground Antenna System Successfully Demonstrated

The Multi-Band Multi-Mission system’s all-digital architecture established 16 simultaneous contacts during the demonstration, which can scale up to support hundreds of concurrent satellite connections

Jan 21, 2021
New LEO/MEO Channel Simulator and MIMO Emulator for MANET Launched

PPM System's RF solutions for LEO/MEO satellite constellations and MANET radio links, will address the requirements for hardware testing in a controlled environment by simulating new complex RF environments

Jan 20, 2021
ESA’s Solar Orbiter to Slingshot Around Venus En-Route to the Sun

Solar Orbiter will be the first satellite to provide close-up views of the Sun's polar regions, providing images from high latitudes of parts of the Sun not visible from Earth

Jan 14, 2021
CSO-2 Military Observation Satellite Launched

The CSO-2 ‘Composante Spatiale Optique’ features a very-high-res optical instrument built by Thales Alenia Space and is intended for French defense applications including surveillance, reconnaissance and observation

Jan 12, 2021
SNC Start Integration of Wings for the Dream Chaser Spaceplane

Sierra Nevada Corporation worked closely with engineers at Models and Tools to design the mission critical wing tooling, the rotation of which allows for access and installation of critical components

Jan 11, 2021
Solar-Electric Zephyr HAPS Completes New Test Flight Campaign

The Airbus Defense and Space campaign focused on operational flexibility and aircraft agility, testing lower altitude flying and early stage transition to the stratosphere of the solar-electric Zephyr.

Jan 06, 2021
Second Cluster of Advanced Satellites Readied for SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

Cluster 2 has up to ten times the collection capacity of Cluster 1 already in orbit, allowing HawkEye 360 to offer increasingly robust space-based RF data insights and improved geolocation accuracy

Jan 05, 2021
Advancing Defense Capability Through Strategic Collaboration Defense Advancement works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive defense capabilities forward.