Focus: Manufacture
March 25, 2021
Airbus has signed another order for OneSat, its fully digital, in-orbit reconfigurable satellite product line. Sky Perfect JSAT has ordered Superbird-9 from Airbus, targeted to launch in 2024, the companies announced Thursday. JSAT estimates the total investment including this contract is around $275 million (30 billion yen). This deal marks the first time a Japanese…
March 23, 2021
NanoAvionics is expanding its offering of satellite buses with a larger microsat bus size, the MP42, a move the company said will help it capture a larger share of the smallsat market. CEO Vytenis Buzas spoke with Via Satellite about NanoAvionics expansion into this size of satellite. He said the company started out with the…
March 12, 2021
Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has already begun revolutionizing various manufacturing sectors, and aerospace is inline to see a similar transformation in the coming years. The technology has been around for around two decades now, but the escalation of developments in recent years has been impressive. Only a decade ago, it was exclusively used…
March 11, 2021
Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday evening that its stockholders have approved the $4.4 billion sale of the company to Lockheed Martin, clearing a hurdle on the deal that is still expected to close in the second half of 2021. Lockheed Martin announced the deal in December, and said it will lead to better integrated end products and…