Finland-based, ICEYE, announced on 22 September 2020 the completion of its Series C round of financing, raising US$87 million. ICEYE was formed in 2014 to develop SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) capabilities in a microsatellite package. Its first satellite, ICEYE X1,...
Picosat manufacturer FOSSA Systems signed a service agreement deal during September 2020 with the launch arranger Momentus for the firm to have two of its PocketPod deployers to be launched on the second “Vigoride” mission on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch...
On 16 September Northrop Grumman received a contract from the US Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to develop a next-generation “jam-resistant” military communications satellite. The contract was awarded through the Evolved Strategic Satellite...
On 15 September the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded the construction contract for their HERA mission to German manufacturer OHB Systems. The contract is valued at EUR€129.4m (US$153.3m). OHB will be the lead in a team with 17 other companies from ESA member...
AAC Clyde Space, Saab and ORBCOMM announced plans, on 24 August, for a space-based VDES constellation. VDES (VHF Data Exchange System) is seen as the second-generation of maritime identification, building on the foundations laid out by AIS (Automatic Identification...
Airbus announced on 18 August, that Arabsat had contracted with the manufacturer for a dual C-/Ku-band GEO communications satellite. It is to be based on its new, all-electric, Eurostar Neo bus. Arabsat intends to call the satellite BADR-8 and locate it at its 26...
