Kayhan Space is launching a new spaceflight safety platform, Pathfinder, the company announced Aug. 9. The platform aims to enable satellite and mission operators to manage operational risks and make preemptive maneuvers based on precision analytics to avoid conjunctions in space. Capella Space, Globalstar, and Lynk Global are among an initial group of operators using…

Propulsion startup Benchmark Space Systems is acquiring electric propulsion technologies from Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) to develop a hybrid propulsion system with chemical and electric propulsion. AASC’s technology is a Xantus metal plasma thrusters (MPT), and Benchmark announced Monday it plans to integrate it into its chemical Halcyon HTP propulsion to form a hybrid…

Space simulation software company Slingshot Aerospace has acquired two companies — Numerica’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) division and Seradata — to increase its space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities.  The company said these acquisitions will benefit its Slingshot Digital Space Twin product, which virutalizes the space environment by combining multiple types of data including real-time mapping and…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will provide cloud storage for Sidus Space's new Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, LizzieSat, under the terms of a new contract the operator announced on Tuesday. Sidus Space is a Space-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that provides commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection services. Its LizzieSat LEO microsatellite system is designed to…