Focus: North America
January 15, 2020
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 is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2020. The complex has been designed to produce more than 12 of Rocket Lab’s Electron launch…
January 13, 2020
CropX has acquired of Nebraska-based CropMetrics, a provider of cloud-based, precision-irrigation tools. Current CropMetrics and CropX partners and customers will now have access to the companies’ combination of in-soil data, farm management analytics, and decision-support tools. CropX announced the acquisition on Monday, effective immediately. CropX provides soil sensing technology along with a decision-support platform. CropMetrics…
January 7, 2020
Blue Origin opened its new headquarters and R&D facility in Kent, Washington on Monday. The new hub for the Jeff Bezos-owned spaceflight company is named the O’Neill Building after physicist Gerard O’Neill, who explored the idea of human space colonies. CEO Bob Smith said at the ribbon cutting that Blue Origin grew by a third…
January 6, 2020
MDA will design and manufacture space-based L-band navigation antennas as part of a hosted payload on the MEASAT-3d satellite, which is currently being built by Airbus. The navigation antennas will be integrated on a hosted payload for South Korean KTSAT that will support the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS). Scheduled for launch in 2021, the…