Focus: Manufacturing

Rocket Lab will begin building a satellite platform called Photon, with the intent of launching small satellites into low-Earth orbit within four months of an order. The end-to-end mission solution...

Made In Space is developing an in-space manufacturing system to enable precision long-baseline interferometry missions. This technology, known as Optimast-SCI (Structurally Connected Interferometer) equips an ESPA-class small satellite with the...

Phasor, a developer of electronically-steered antenna (ESA) systems partnered with manufacturer Surface Technology International (STI) to produce ESA systems. STI is a specialist contract electronics manufacturer, providing electronics design and manufacturing...

DPW Holdings revealed that Coolisys Technologies, through its wholly owned subsidiary Enertec Systems 2001, received a contract totaling $2.9 million from a leading defense and aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The contract...

Airbus’ Friedrichshafen site opened a satellite integration and space technology center, known as the Integrated Technology Center (ITC). The ITC, which triples the area of clean room space to 4,200...

Avid readers will remember news last week that British spaceflight company Orbex had claimed to produce the largest, single-piece 3D printed rocket engine in the world. However, just over 7...

Relativity, an autonomous rocket factory and launch services provider, was granted a new patent. Relativity was recently granted US. Patent Number US20180341248A1, Real-time adaptive control of additive manufacturing processes using machine learning,...

Prevailing trends in satellite telecommunications have brought the industry to a crossroads. The successful navigation of which will depend on what happens with ground operations, as much as in space....

Ovzon signed a contract with SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, for the manufacturing of the company´s first Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite. The total investment for the satellite (Ovzon-3) including manufacturing, launch,...

Boeing backed out of a satellite order from a Chinese government-owned firm on Thursday, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. This decision followed a Wall Street Journal...