Author: Jeffrey Hill
November 16, 2020
It’s safe to say that most people are done with the year 2020 – a seemingly never-ending nightmare of health crisis, economic recession, and political upheaval converging in a perfect storm. It was a year when satellite business was mostly conducted over video conferencing from home offices and when engineering team members stood six feet…
October 22, 2020
Launch integration and mission management service provider TriSept Corporation signed a contract with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) unit to broker and integrate a cubesat technology demonstration mission scheduled to launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle in the first quarter of 2021. The U.S. Army SMDC's 3U Gunsmoke-J cubesat technology…
October 21, 2020
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has rolled out a new software platform, “OpenSpace,” composed of virtual products that enable satellite operators and Ground-as-a-Service (GSaaS) providers to design their own fully software-defined, dynamic ground systems, the company announced October 20. In order to include Software-Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities in its OpenSpace offering, Kratos said it virtualized…
October 21, 2020
Launch and in-space service provider Firefly Aerospace was contracted by imagery and sensing satellite operator Spire Global to send multiple Lemur spacecraft into orbit on Firefly’s Alpha rocket spread out over multiple missions. Spire and Firefly have not publicly announced launch dates or disclosed the length of the contract. Firefly is targeting the inaugural flight…