Get Sat and R4 Integration, a provider of airborne roll-on/roll-off and shoulder mount communication systems for U.S. and partner government aircraft, revealed Tuesday that the completion and airworthiness certification of their C-130 Multi-Purpose Hatch System (MPHS). Developed to support roll-on/roll-off requirements of special operations customers and to alleviate design concerns of large radomes, the low-profile…

NovelSat will incorporate its satellite access waveforms into Envistacom’s Transport Virtualization Ecosystem (TVE). Envistacom announced Thursday it will deliver an open-architecture ecosystem which helps enable virtualized applications such as advanced communications waveforms, encryption, data analytics, and other real-time continuous processing applications to reside in Common off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. The Envistacom/NovelSat partnership helps allow commercial and…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space for major Copernicus environment missions, the agency announced Wednesday. Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth Observation (EO) data in the world, and ESA develops, builds and launches the satellites. It also operates some of the missions and ensures the availability of data from…

NASA and Boeing’s major reviews of the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December 2019 has concluded with 80 recommendations. The December flight test experienced an intermittent space-to-ground communication issue, and the spacecraft was not able to execute the orbital insertion burn required to meet its testing objective of docking with the International Space Station…