Lockheed Martin is opening a new smallsat processing facility in Colorado to support the company’s Space Development Agency (SDA) contract and capitalize on other smallsat opportunities. Lockheed announced the new 20,000-square-foot low bay clean room on Monday.  The Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) satellites will be the first anchor customer for the facility, Chris Winslett,…

Spire Global and OroraTech are working together on a Canadian Space Agency contract to monitor wildfires from space via satellite.  The contract is for preparatory work for a wildfire-monitoring satellite, the initial step towards CSA’s planned WildFireSat mission. Canada has set a goal with WildFireSat to monitor all active wildfires in Canada from space on…

NASA has selected The Aerospace Corporation to lead a consortium to develop in-space servicing capabilities collaborating with government, industry, and academia.  The consortium will focus on in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM) — capabilities in space that can extend the life of missions, or manufacturing in space.   The Aerospace Corp announced the Consortium for Space…

The FCC officially opened its new Space Bureau on Tuesday as part of a plan from the commission to rethink and modernize its satellite policy. The FCC appointed Julie Kearney as chief of the Space Bureau, and Ethan Lucarelli as chief of the Office of International Affairs.  This formalizes a move the FCC introduced in…