Following on from a second “order” to lease an MEV (Mission Extension Vehicle) for five years, Orbital ATK has begun the design for the construction of MEV-2. Orbital ATK originally committed to building MEV-1 in April 2016 after Intelsat committed to...
The Scottish small satellite manufacturer Clyde Space is to be sold to the Swedish space firm AAC Microtec in a cash and mainly share deal overall worth US$35.3 million. Craig Clark, the CEO of the Clydespace firm which was founded by him in 2005, is thought to be a...
After being attached to the International Space Station (ISS) for over three weeks (grappled and berthed on 14 November), it was time for the disposable Cygnus OA-8 (Gene Cernan) cargo spacecraft to leave. Cygnus OA-8 was unberthed from the Unity module at 1752 GMT...
While X-Band is the traditional military communications band for satellite transmissions, it is somewhat limited in bandwidth. As such, an export customer of the German submarine manufacturer ThyssenKrupp has specified that it wants Ku-band terminals for its mast...
While Elon Musk has stated that his primary loves are his sons – he does have other loves. Apart from various beautiful women – it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a billion dollars, must be in want of a wife (apologies to...
While the new Vega C can launch 800kg more payload into orbit for about the same price as the current Vega rocket, it remains an expensive rocket at circa US$42 million per launch. As such, the European Space Agency has launched a design programme for a new version...
