Focus: Manufacturing

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...

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...

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...

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...

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is designing and building the first fully operational nanosatellite in Kepler Communications’ next-generation constellation of communications satellites. SFL is also helping Kepler to set up a...

Intelsat has selected Maxar Technologies to build Intelsat 40e, a next-generation geostationary communications satellite. Maxar also will integrate NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) payload with the Intelsat 40e...

Lockheed Martin has shipped JCSAT-17, its third satellite based on the modernized LM 2100 bus, to French Guiana for launch. JCSAT-17, built for Sky Perfect JSAT (SJC), will provide flexible...

Smallsat launcher Rocket Lab has started construction on a new Long Beach, California, facility which will serve as its headquarters, provide incremental production capacity, and Mission Control Center capabilities. The facility...

Hispasat has contracted with Thales Alenia Space to construct the Amazonas Nexus satellite, which will replace Amazonas 2 in the 61º West orbital position, and expand its capabilities. The Spanish...

Frequency Electronics (FEI) says its next generation Rubidium atomic clock has completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) by prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space for potential use on the U.S. Air...