Technology

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, has signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Nanowave Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of advanced microwave, millimeter-wave and electro-optic multi-function modules and subsystems. MDA will provide satellite components […]

Airbus Aerial and DroneBase, a global drone operations company, have announced a partnership to deliver a multi-source data service solution for aerial imagery and data from a single provider. This […]

Fred Krupp, president of Canada’s Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), gave a recent TED talk about the organization’s plans to launch a satellite in orbit that will gather data about the […]

French space agency CNES has chosen the Space Alliance, formed by Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, to extend the fiber-optic communications system (STFO) at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s […]

Year after year, traffic orbiting the Earth is increasing while space debris poses an ever-greater threat for satellites and crews of space vehicles. To combat this problem, the European Space Agency (ESA) […]

NanoAvionics has signed a contract with Lacuna Space to support its in-orbit demonstration of an Internet of Things (IOT) communications network. NanoAvionics’ M6P satellite platform and mission integration services will […]

Effective Space, a U.K.-headquartered company providing last-mile logistics in space, has announced a strategic partnership with ArianeGroup for the provision of electric propulsion systems for its Space Drone spacecraft. The […]

Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe, yet it has long been at the centre of the space industry. In some ways, this is a quite remarkable fact. […]

EarthNow has announced it intends to deploy a large constellation of advanced imaging satellites that will deliver real-time, continuous video of almost anywhere on Earth. The latest company to spin-out […]

Ruag Space has signed an agreement to become York Space Systems’ sole supplier of separation systems for the S-Class spacecraft platform. As part of the collaboration, Ruag will develop a […]

Phase Four, a provider of electric Radio Frequency (RF) thrusters for in-space propulsion, announced the results of third party performance testing by The Aerospace Corporation. The testing found Phase Four’s […]

According to speakers at Interspill 2018 in London, satellites could be a major help for those tasked with cleaning up disastrous oil speaks at sea. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) could […]

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced plans to develop and launch a new satellite purpose-built to identify and measure methane emissions from human-made sources worldwide, starting with the oil and […]

Although both government and private entities have used satellite imagery for agricultural purposes for years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says the technology still hasn’t peaked in maturity. The […]

DigitalGlobe has formed a partnership with Ecopia Tech to use proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms and cloud computing to create building footprints. By using Ecopia’s U.S. Building Footprints powered by […]

During its April 2 mission, SpaceX carried Kenya’s first ever satellite to the International Space Station (ISS). The University of Nairobi developed the Cubesat mission, called First Kenya University Nanosatellite-Precursor […]

During its 14th International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission on Monday, SpaceX carried into orbit an experimental payload developed by the University of Surrey. The university’s RemoveDebris satellite — funded […]

Hispasat has launched the second edition of its scholarship so that female engineers can carry out their postgraduate Master’s studies in aeronautical engineering or telecommunications engineering in the aerospace sector. […]

Deep Space Industries announced it has signed a contract to provide its Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems for the BlackSky Earth Observation (EO) constellation of smallsats. DSI will provide an […]

Unlike SpaceX and OneWeb, NewSpace startup Astranis is sending its smallsats all the way out to Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) to deliver broadband internet. From there, the company intends to […]

Boeing’s HorizonX ventures arm has joined a $15 million funding round for Australian nanosatellite startup Myriota. Blue Sky Venture Capital and Main Sequence Ventures, both Australian firms, led the funding […]

Fleet Space Technologies has joined forces with researchers at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) in the world of Big Data, sensors and space technology to trial their first local precision […]

Spire and DHV Technology have announced a joint partnership to offer Spire’s solar panels to the space industry. DHV Technology will now build and sell Spire’s double deployable panels to […]

Call me Ishmael! Or… Airbus? The company is working on a supersized harpoon that could be used to snatch rogue satellites out of their orbits. “Once the tip is inside, […]

The Space Alliance formed by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio announced it has officially taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, having received all government approvals for the transaction. […]

Deep Space Industries announced it has signed a contract with Astro Digital to provide several Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems. Comet is an electrothermal propulsion system that uses water as […]

Orbital ATK announced its plans for the company’s next generation of satellite life extension and in-space servicing products. During a keynote address at the SATELLITE 2018 Conference and Exhibition in […]

SatixFy UK has introduced its full Electronic Steered Multi-Beam Array antennas (ESMA). The scalable architecture supports any antenna size up to 1 million elements (in Ku band 10m by 10m), […]

International Launch Services (ILS) and Effective Space announce their intent to contract to deliver two of Effective Space’s Space Drone spacecraft into orbit. The Proton Breeze M rideshare launch is […]

In 2018, the space industry has — with a mélange of excitement and relief — witnessed advances in launch capabilities on both ends of the mass spectrum. Rocket Lab’s dedicated […]