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Ball Aerospace’s Dorothy Rasco Receives Women in Aerospace Leadership Award
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sept. 8, 2021 — Dorothy Rasco, Director, Engineering Operations, Ball Aerospace, was announced as the 2021 recipient of the Women in Aerospace Leadership Award. The Leadership Award is presented annually to an individual demonstrating exemplary leadership that enables others to succeed in the aerospace field, leadership of noteworthy contributions to the aerospace field, commitment…
ThinKom Satellite Antennas Qualified for Operation on Intelsat Flex Networks
ThinSat® 300 Vehicle-Mounted Phased Arrays Provide Reliable High-Throughput Communications-on-the-Move HAWTHORNE, Calif. – Aug. 31, 2021 – ThinKom Solutions today announced that its land-mobile ThinSat 300® phased-array antenna has been qualified for use on Intelsat’s FlexMove for Government satellite network. The qualification was awarded following an extensive battery of over-the-air tests conducted at Intelsat’s Mountainside Teleport in Maryland with Intelsat…
Ball Aerospace Selected for Two Landsat Next Studies
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 30, 2021 — Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA for two Landsat Next architecture studies: Landsat Next Instrument Study – Constellation Satellite Concept and Landsat Next Instrument – Single Satellite Concept. The two six-month studies will look at instrument architectures and designs for the next generation of Landsat. “Users around the world rely…
His Excellency Director General Dr. Salim M. AlMalik of ICESCO’s Address to the 36th Space Symposium
Hello everyone. Good morning. This is a very difficult time in every country. My warmest greeting from about the capital city of Morocco, to all of you here in Colorado Springs. And to all those who are attending virtually — Dr. Kathryn Thornton, Admiral Thomas Zelibor, Ms. Shelli Brunswick, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. I…
StarLab Oasis Opens in Abu Dhabi
Nanoracks ventures into the Space AgTech sector ABU DHABI, UAE- August 25, 2021- Nanoracks, the world’s leading provider of commercial access to space, is pleased to announce the launch of a new Space AgTech company, StarLab Oasis. This expansion highlights Nanoracks commitment to address the growing problems of desertification, climate change, water scarcity and food…
Astroscale’s ELSA-d Successfully Demonstrates Repeated Magnetic Capture
Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 26, 2021 – Astroscale’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) successfully tested its ability to capture its client spacecraft using the servicer’s magnetic capture system, in a demonstration performed on Wednesday, August 25 (UTC). A major challenge of debris removal, and on-orbit servicing in general, is docking with or capturing a client object; this test demonstration served as a successful validation of ELSA-d’s ability to dock with a client, such as a defunct satellite. When ELSA-d…
NorthStar Earth & Space secures radio frequency spectrum license approval for planned satellite constellation
Government of Canada authorization in principle is key milestone for NorthStar MONTREAL, CANADA, 24 AUGUST 2021 — NorthStar Earth & Space (NorthStar) has received approval in principle from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) authorizing NorthStar to use all of the company’s requested radio frequency spectrum allocation for its planned 52-satellite constellation that will…
NASA selects L3Harris to guide Mars Mission samples home
Highlights: L3Harris will provide secure data transmission for complex mission Provider of choice for Mars missions using unique, multi-band communication solution Extends trusted relationship with Jet Propulsion Laboratory MELBOURNE, Fla., August 24, 2021 — NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) to provide the latest Universal Space Transponder (UST) for the Mars…
BAE Systems collaborates with GlobalFoundries to produce radiation-hardened single board computers for space
MANASSAS, Va. – August 23, 2021 — BAE Systems’ radiation-hardened RAD510™ System on Chip (SoC) for space-based computing is entering fabrication. Designed by BAE Systems and manufactured by GlobalFoundries® (GF®), the RAD510 SoC will be the core of a single board computer (SBC) with twice the performance capability of the industry standard RAD750® microprocessor. The…
Aitech’s S-A1760 Venus™ Brings NVIDIA-based AI Supercomputing to Next Generation Space Applications
Radiation-characterized COTS system qualified for use in small sat clusters and short-duration spaceflights  S-A1760 Venus Technical Specifications Suitable for the next generation of short duration spaceflight, NEO and LEO satellite constellations NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2i SoM with 256 CUDA cores reaching 1 TFLOPS COTS-based system meets new Series 300 level qualifications Local data processing onboard where…