Focus: Smallsats

SpaceX launched 119 payloads into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) at 4:02 a.m. PT on Transporter-16, a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday morning. The […]

Impulse Space has two new offerings to help satellites reach Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The company announced Tuesday it will offer a rideshare program to GEO for small satellites using its […]

SpaceX launched 53 payloads in the Falcon 9 Transporter-10 smallsat rideshare mission, SpaceX’s first rideshare mission of 2024. The mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force […]

One year after being acquired by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, smallsat manufacturer NanoAvionics is on the cusp of signing constellation contracts, CEO Vytenis Buzas told Via Satellite in a recent […]

Honeywell is teaming up with Aegiq, a quantum networking and computing company, to bring better technology solutions for small satellites. Honeywell announced the collaboration, Sept. 13. The two companies are […]

Kongsberg NanoAvionics recently opened a new manufacturing facility in Vilnius, Lithuania, that the company said will double its satellite production capability. NanoAvionics also aims to hire more than 100 people […]

SpaceX kicked off 2023 with a rideshare mission on Tuesday morning, launching 114 spacecraft to orbit. The mission — Transporter 6 — was the sixth in SpaceX’s series of dedicated […]

Propulsion company Morpheus Space and space situational awareness company Kayhan Space recently announced a strategic partnership to offer a collision avoidance service with Morpheus Space propulsion with built-in Kayhan Space […]

Benchmark Space Systems is rolling out a satellite collision avoidance kit — ColA — that the propulsion company says is an affordable, plug-and-play safety accessory for microsat and ESPA-class satellites.  […]

Benchmark Space Systems is rolling out a satellite collision avoidance kit — ColA — that the propulsion company says is an affordable, plug-and-play safety accessory for microsat and ESPA-class satellites. The […]

NanoAvionics is expanding its flagship satellite bus line with a larger bus to meet customer demand for microsats. The company announced Wednesday it is adding the MP42H and the MP42D […]

Propulsion startup Benchmark Space Systems is acquiring electric propulsion technologies from Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) to develop a hybrid propulsion system with chemical and electric propulsion. AASC’s technology is […]

Boeing is opening a new small satellite production facility to take advantage of capabilities from Boeing and subsidiary Millennium Space Systems. The facility, announced Wednesday, is housed in Boeing’s manufacturing […]

Oman is getting ready to launch its first satellites to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) in a milestone for the country. The Sultanate of Oman has selected Poland’s SatRevolution to deliver and […]

Loft Orbital contracted Airbus for more than 15 satellite platforms based on the Airbus Arrow platform, which serves the OneWeb constellation. The agreement brings together a traditional space manufacturer and […]

Loft Orbital has expanded its production agreement with LeoStella for multiple satellite buses under a contract announced Thursday. LeoStella will provide additional LEO-100 buses, based on its existing product line […]

Virgin Orbit has added Spire Global as a late-load customer addition to its upcoming launch, and completed satellite integration within 36 hours. CEO Dan Hart said the launch contract went […]

German rideshare provider Exolaunch is expanding its business presence in the United States, by opening offices in Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colorado, and hiring Chris Hearsey as CEO of subsidiary […]

In-orbit service provider Orbital Astronautics (OrbAstro) has signed a contract to host a propulsion demonstration for Aliena on a mission set to launch in September 20220.  Aliena is a small […]

AAC Clyde Space is launching an African subsidiary in South Africa, the company announced Monday. AAC Space Africa will be based in Cape Town, and it will design, build, and […]

AAC Clyde Space has signed a Space Data as a Service contract with Canadian Earth Observation (EO) company Wyvern worth 8.4 million pounds ($11.6 million). Under the contract, AAC Clyde […]

Virgin Orbit has kicked off commercial service with a successful LauncherOne mission on Wednesday, June 30.  As part of Virgin Orbit’s air-launch system, carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl took off from a […]

With its latest mission “They Go Up So Fast,” Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket has now deployed 104 small satellites. The launch marked a milestone for the company that has set […]

NanoAvionics is expanding its offering of satellite buses with a larger microsat bus size, the MP42, a move the company said will help it capture a larger share of the […]

Chuck Beames, executive chairman of York Space Systems and founder of the SmallSat Alliance, is joining the board of advisors for Slingshot Aerospace, a space situational awareness company based in […]

Astra has won a $7.95 million launch contract with NASA to launch a constellation of six cubesats for storm research over three launches. NASA announced the firm fixed-price contract on […]

Last month, Virgin Orbit reached a major milestone with its successful demonstration of the LauncherOne spacecraft, validating the company’s air-launch approach to sending small satellites to orbit. It was the […]

Another remote sensing satellite player has announced plans to launch a constellation in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA) aims to launch seven optical EOS SAT satellites into LEO […]

Airbus Defence and Space has teamed up with the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey to develop what it calls a breakthrough nano-barrier that can protect satellites in LEO […]

Fleet Space Technologies has selected Swissto12 to deliver additively manufactured all-metal patch antennas for its C4 and C5 satellites. Swissto12, which develops advanced engineered Radio Frequency (RF) products for aerospace […]