Loft Orbital awarded a contract to small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to develop and build the YAM-4 spacecraft bus for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Honeywell's Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) mission, BCT announced August 5. BCT will build the satellite using its new X-SAT Venus-Class bus design, which can carry…

L3Harris Technologies has completed a critical design review for the U.S. Air Force’s first Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) program, the manufacturer announced. NTS-3 is designed to improve the resiliency of the military’s positioning, navigation and timing capabilities. The U.S. government's Space Enterprise Consortium selected L3Harris as the NTS-3 prime system integrator two years ago in…

ViaLite has released new technology that enables users to see what is happening at the antenna end of smaller Satcom and GPS receiver applications, the company announced Aug. 3. The company’s Embedded Site Controller is now available for ViaLite ODE-A4 outdoor enclosures, as well as the ODE-MINI; ViaLite's smallest outdoor enclosures. The hardware and software…

Arianespace has confirmed that it will launch its next three satellites on an expanded Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou at approximately 5:29 p.m. Tuesday, July 28. This mission will take three critical spacecraft into orbit. The satellites to be launched are: Japan's BSAT-4b, built by Maxar; Intelsat's Galaxy 30 UHD…