Focus: Manufacture
March 13, 2020
NanoAvionics is opening a new sales and engineering support office in Columbia, Illinois, which will be the first satellite factory in Illinois and the Midwest. The Columbia facility is the company’s second office in the United States, and will become the primary NanoAvionics hub in the U.S. NanoAvionics said it plans to pull from the…
March 5, 2020
Sen, a British space company working to provide real-time Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video of Earth, has signed a multi-million euro contract with NanoAvionics to build the first five nano-satellites of its constellation. The companies plan to launch the first nano-satellite, EarthTV-1, by mid-2021, with the remaining four nano-satellites built for launch in 2022. Sen is…
February 19, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has completed a new satellite production facility at the company's Kamakura Works in Kamakura, Japan. Between this facility and existing facilities, Mitsubishi Electric's plans to increase annual capacity will increase to 18 satellites, up from 10 at present, saying it will enable the company to fulfill demand for governmental satellites in Japan…
February 18, 2020
Blue Origin opened its rocket engine production facility in Huntsville, Alabama on Monday. The company plans for this 350,000 square-foot engine manufacturing facility to conduct high rate production of the BE-4 and BE-3U engine, which will undergo testing at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The company is investing more than $200 million into this facility…