After establishing an impressive three-decade-long career at legacy aerospace companies Lockheed Martin and Xtar, Robert Cleave found himself in the C-suite at Vector, an Arizona-based new entrant to the U.S. launch services market. He joined the company last month, tasked with transforming the recently acquired $70 million in Series B capital into Vector’s first major…

SatixFy U.K. will reveal a Electronically Steered Multi-Beam Array (ESMA) Ku-band 256 element array antenna this week in California. Using the company’s digital beam forming technology, the new antenna array is being demonstrated working in an antenna micro test range to show multi-beam capabilities, antenna patterns, and other performance parameters. According to the release, the…

ArianeGroup finalized the Prometheus engine demonstration's Definition Review on Feb 1., with the support of European Space Agency (ESA), France's National Center for Space Studies (CNES), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). ESA awarded the contract to ArianeGroup in December 2017, which covers the design, construction, and testing of the first two examples of the…

Satellite communications integrator NIC4 was awarded the Iraq Ministry of Defense (MOD) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Phase One Single Award Five-Year Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract. This contract was awarded via ACC-APG customer Communications-Electronic Command (CECOM) Security Assistance Management Directorate (SAMD) as required under Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case IQ-B-ADP. NIC4 aims to provide knowledge-based support…