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Forrester Reports: Another Billion Being Sought by OneWeb
Journalist Chris Forrester. According to journalist Chris Forrester, filing at the Advanced Television infosite, satellite mega-constellation OneWeb is seeking to raise another $1 billion (€0.9bn) […]
The First Iodine-Propellant Smallsat is Launched
ThrustMe and Spacety have launched the first iodine-propelled smallsat. The satellite was sent into space by a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) carrier rocket from Taiyuan […]
Smallsat Industry Projected by Allied Market Research to Garner $3.63 Billion in 2018
Allied Market Research has published a report entitled, “Small Satellite Market by Type (Minisatellite, Microsatellite, Nanosatellite, Pico-Satellites, and Femto Satellites), Application (Imaging and Earth Observations, […]
Tying Their Smallsat Expertise Together are Rocket Lab and KSAT
Rocket Lab has partnered with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to be the sole provider of ground station services for the Electron launch vehicle and Photon […]
As the Crow Flies … And It Did as Rocket Lab’s Electron Rocket Launches Astro Digital’s Smallsat
Rocket Lab has successfully launched their ninth Electron mission, deploying a single spacecraft to orbit for satellite manufacturer Astro Digital. The launch of the Astro […]
Valued at Up to $986 Million … USAF SMC Selects Firefly Black as a Launch Service Provider
Firefly Black, LLC has been selected by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Small Launch and Targets Division as a launch service […]
Virgin Orbit and the UK Partnership Brings RAF Test Pilot to the LauncherOne Team
The Royal Air Force (RAF) and Virgin Orbit have announced the next step in a new space partnership with the selection of an RAF test […]
Recent SmallSat News
November 14, 2019On Saturday, October 26th, Exos Aerospace launched their SARGE-SRLV at Spaceport America. Launch initiation was at 11:39 MST. While the …
November 13, 2019Developing a “Satellite-as-a-Service” business is the driving force behind Loft Orbital, based in San Francisco. The company has their …
November 13, 2019An artistic view of Kipp, Kepler’s first Ku-band LEO satellite. Photo Credit: Kepler Two companies have partnered to combine their …
November 13, 2019Rocket Lab has introduced ‘Rosie’ the rocket-building-robot to the company’s manufacturing line, speeding up the production of …
November 13, 2019Photo of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus-12 arriving at ISS. Image is courtesy of NASA. Two National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) research and …
November 13, 2019File photo of a Kuaizhou-1A rocket as it lifted off on January 9, 2017, from the Gobi Desert. Andrew Jones, journalist for GB Times, is reporting …
November 13, 2019A $50 million senior secured loan from Intelsat (NYSE: I) has certainly enhanced BlackSky and has created a strategic relationship that pairs Earth …
November 12, 2019Another contract for small sats, and this one is for a Singaporean research mission — nano-satellite mission integrator NanoAvionics …
November 12, 2019An industry first will create a strategic relationship that pairs Earth observation with a global communications infrastructure. The companies …
November 12, 2019The continued development of the Juventas Cubesat is the focus of an addendum to the contract between GomSpace A/S and the European Space Agency …