Focus: Manufacture
October 30, 2020
Kacific is actively planning to build its second satellite, Kacific2, the company revealed last Thursday. Plans for Kacific2 include coverage over Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, as well as expanded reach into South East Asia, further into Central and Western Asia, and potentially Eastern Africa. Like Kacific1, Kacific2 will use a spot beam…
October 15, 2020
Last week, the movers and shakers within the Russian space industry gathered virtually at SatComRus to talk about the future for satellite in Russia, and what the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will have on this landscape. Oleg Dukhovnitskiy, Head of the Federal Communications Agency (FCA) in Russia said that satellite communications plays a big…
October 7, 2020
Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a new, 17,000 square-foot large solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet Rocketdyne said in a Tuesday release that the large solid rocket motors produced at the new Engineering, Manufacturing Development (EMD) facility will be used for national security programs, including strategic deterrence, hypersonics and missile defense. Construction began…
October 6, 2020
GHGSat revealed Tuesday that ABB will deliver the payloads for GHGSat's next three methane detecting satellites. This is part of GHGSat's plan to have a constellation of 10 spacecraft in orbit by the end of 2022. The company has been ramping up funding, as GHGSat secured $30 million in Series B funding last month. GHGSat…