The University of Surrey/SSTL-built RemoveDebris spacecraft demonstrator satellite made an ejection of a 2U cubesat called Debrisat 1 to mimic debris at 2306 GMT on 16 September. It then fired an untethered net to successfully snag the tumbling Debrisat 1. In this...
Having already won the contract for the first batch of 10 yet-to-be launched GPS 3A satellites (ordered in 2008), Lockheed Martin found itself in the enviable position of being the sole bidder for the GPS 3F (Follow-on) batch of 22 satellites, as part of a contract...
SpaceX has announced that it is to take human space travellers around the Moon in 2023. The original plan was to send two passengers on a Falcon 9 Heavy-launched dragon spacecraft, but this was dropped after SpaceX decided to concentrate on the BFR (now more politely...
The small satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), celebrated the successful launch of two satellites, NovaSAR-1, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite able to image the earth at night or through...
Arianespace has announced that they have received a contract for the launch of the Theos 2 satellite, a high resolution Earth observation satellite being built for the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA) by Airbus Defence and...
The Lockheed Martin-backed small satellite maker Terran Orbital has received an order to build a small geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) communications satellite for GapSat – a satellite capacity broker. The satellite to be built is expected to be under 100kg in...
