SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, and a provider of satellite and spacecraft systems will help define next-generation protected communications for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. SSL will develop, test, and analyze antenna subsystem prototypes through a contract with the Space Enterprise Consortium, managed by Advanced Technology International. Leveraging its knowledge of…

Cloud Constellation has launched a global partner program for its SpaceBelt Data Security as a Service (DSAAS) space-based cloud service, enabling partners to offer customers a cloud service that eliminates the terrestrial infrastructure as a key data breach vulnerability. SpaceBelt DSAAS is a scalable, space-based cloud service for securing high-value and highly sensitive data assets by…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Maxar Technologies' Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec satellite manufacturing facilities on Aug. 9 to view the final phases of construction of the Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM). Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen also attended the visit. The RCM satellites will be the third generation of synthetic aperture radar satellite technology MDA has…

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Aug. 12 at 3:31 a.m. EDT. NASA selected ULA's Delta IV Heavy to begin the Parker Solar Probe's journey to the sun. This was the 37th launch of the Delta IV rocket, and the 10th in the Heavy configuration.…