Focus: Manufacture
July 16, 2021
Software-defined technology developer Innoflight will deliver key avionics for four satellites produced by L3Harris Technologies under the terms of a new contract the two organizations announced July 15. L3Technologies represents a new customer for Innoflight. Innoflight will deliver key avionics for four satellites produced by L3Harris Technologies under the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tracking Layer…
July 13, 2021
The space business needs to recruit more people who know less. Strange, right? The global pandemic dramatized how important skills are to personal economic progress. As states and countries locked down, those with the high-skilled jobs that could be done from home came out ahead. Those whose jobs required them to be face to face…
July 12, 2021
A record number of satellites were launched into orbit in 2020, according to the Satellite Industry Association’s (SIA) State of the Satellite Industry Report. By the end of 2020, there were 3,371 satellites orbiting Earth, an increase of 37% from 2019. The commercial satellite industry dominates the $371 billion global space economy, making up $271…
July 1, 2021
Airbus has shipped Eutelsat’s QUANTUM satellite to French Guiana ahead of its July launch. The QUANTUM launch has been pushed back multiple times, and is now set for Arianespace launch from French Guiana in the third quarter. The QUANTUM satellite is software-defined, and is pitched as the first universal satellite to repeatedly adjust to business…