Manufacturing

Mu Space has opened a satellite manufacturing facility in Bangkok, Thailand, and plans to add more than 300 high tech jobs in the city over the next year. The company claims this is the first dedicated satellite manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia.  Mu Space is an aerospace manufacturer with plans to provide internet via satellites...

AAC Clyde Space has signed a Space Data as a Service contract with Canadian Earth Observation (EO) company Wyvern worth 8.4 million pounds ($11.6 million). Under the contract, AAC Clyde Space will design, manufacture, and own three 6U EPIC satellites equipped with hyperspectral payloads. Wyvern has committed to subscribe to the data service for four...

Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio have won a new contract with the Italian Ministry of Defence, the two companies announced June 16. The contract is for the development of the SICRAL 3 secure satellite communications system, including its ground segment. Covering the development of phases B and C, the contract is worth a total of...

Yahsat and Airbus have completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Thuraya 4-NGS next generation mobile telecommunications system, Yahsat announced  June 9. This step provided a comprehensive review, validating Airbus’ design approach for both the physical and functional requirements of the satellite system. It also marked a step toward the on-schedule completion of the...

Astroscale‘s UK division awarded a $370,000 contract to AAC Clyde Space to co-engineer the space debris removal company’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale (ELSA-M) satellite platform. AAC Clyde Space will design and update ELSA-M’s Starbuck power subsystem, Sirius avionics and other systems to meet the requirements of its specific mission. The company said its work on...

York Space Systems is planning to build a new, larger manufacturing facility in its headquarter city of Denver, Colorado, in order to boost manufacturing capability to keep up with customer demand.  In a May 18 announcement, York claims the new Manufacturing Technology Center will boost its production capacity by four times. Now, York can manufacture...

Cloud Constellation, the operator of a planned “SpaceBelt” Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite data constellation, will use Mynaric’s laser communication Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) to connect its spacecraft under the terms of a partnership agreement the two companies announced on Thursday. Mynaric’s will deliver all OISL CONDOR terminals required for the first ten SpaceBelt constellation satellites,...

Northrop Grumman will design, develop, and produce 24 ship sets of solar arrays for Airbus‘ new OneSat Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) satellite product line under the terms of a new contract award announced May 3. The 20kW-class OneSat solar arrays will be more than 18 meters long when deployed in an accordion-folded flexible solar array blanket....

York Space Systems is adding a larger and more powerful platform called the LX-Class to its family of spacecraft platforms.  The new platform is built off of the York S-Class, and reuses 90% of the S-Cass hardware and software design. Like the S-Class, it can accommodate a wide range of missions from communications to Earth...