Focus: NewSpace
March 17, 2020
MPIQC Inc., which provides electronic contract manufacturing solutions and services, is moving into its new U.S. base at the Space Life Science Lab (SLSL) in Exploration Park in the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. CEO Manuel Gelerman said the new headquarters will service sales and light assembly work, and is the result of a partnership…
March 4, 2020
SpaceLogistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program. Northrop Grumman said the mission will feature the first-ever commercial robotic servicing spacecraft. It aims to expand the market for satellite servicing of…
March 3, 2020
Rakuten and Vodafone are the lead investors in a just-announced space-based cellular broadband network called SpaceMobile from AST & Science. AST & Science plans to create a constellation of Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellites that will connect directly to smartphones without specialized satellite hardware or antennas. The company claims that SpaceMobile will be the first and only…
February 26, 2020
Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations were named among 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2020 by MIT Technology Review in its March/April print issue. Other technologies named include Artificial Intelligence (AI) -designed molecules, hyper-personalized medicine, and quantum supremacy. In the explanation, Journalist Neel V. Patel highlighted reusable launch architecture and cheaper manufacturing as driving down the cost…