PredaSAR has announced plans to establish an initial 48-satellite constellation to deliver global data products for the government and commercial sectors via synthetic aperture radar technology. The company said Thursday it will deploy the SAR satellites in multiple orbits to provide high-resolution imagery of objects and landscapes on Earth.

Rocket Lab is scheduled to deploy seven small satellites on July 3, three weeks after sending five payloads into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and the Australian government.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Saturday to bring another batch of Starlink broadband satellites and three Earth-observing satellites from Planet Labs to low-Earth orbit as part of a rideshare mission, CNET reported Sunday.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed a mission confirmation review for a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer technology designed to support Japanese spacecraft on a mission to study the two moons of Mars.

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has received a contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to assess a new methodology for environmental imaging in geostationary orbit.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has integrated chemical and electrical propulsion systems from Aerojet Rocketdyne into a spacecraft for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission.

Jacobs has secured a potential $478.4M extension to the Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology and Science contract at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, bringing the total contract value to over $1.9B, the company reported on Wednesday. 

NASA has tapped NanoAvionics to create a 12U nanosatellite bus that will work to support the in-orbit test of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 23, 2020 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) won a five-year, $128M recompete contract to continue providing weather data services for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded network of weather observation networks, ExecutiveGov said April 14.

SpaceX is seeking authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to operate around 4.4K Starlink satellites at 335.5 to 354.2 miles above Earth, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received and unpacked the Lockheed Martin-built wing units of a spaceplane designed to resupply the International Space Station for NASA.

General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business has expanded its presence in Colorado with a new facility focused on spacecraft manufacturing, integration and testing.

The Texas Department of Information Resources has awarded Carahsoft Technology a contract to supply information technology products and services to the state’s public sector entities to support educational IT efforts.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 3, 2020 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) secured a five-year, $920M task order to modernize U.S. Navy aircraft systems used to process electronic intelligence and collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, GovCon Wire reported Thursday.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for advancing new satellite, the internet of things and cloud technologies while driving revenue for Iridium.