Raytheon has shipped the first small satellite for the Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements program to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for integration onto a Spacefli... Read more
Some defense companies such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boeing have made investments in startups that develop small satellites as the Pentagon and intelligence agencies work to counter... Read more
Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer for government systems at Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, has said he believes intelligence and defense agencies will look to s... Read more
NASA has licensed a patented technology to Thermal Management Technologies to develop the North Logan, Utah-based company’s small satellite release mechanism. The space agency said Monday TM... Read more
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business, has said the U.S. and the U.K. implement “very similar strategies” when it comes to securing rapid and cheaper spa... Read more
El Segundo, Calif.-based Phase Four has received an order from NASA for an integrated propulsion assembly for small satellite missions. Phase Four’s Chief Executive Officer Simon Halpe... Read more
Raytheon has produced two small satellites for the Department of Homeland Security in support of search-and-rescue operations. The Polar Scout satellites have radio frequency receivers that... Read more
Raytheon has expressed interest to help the Defense Department meet its weather monitoring needs with its sensor system, SpaceNews reported Monday. Wallis Laughrey, vice president of Raytheo... Read more
The European Space Agency has selected five companies to study the feasibility of using a commercial microlauncher to deploy small satellites into orbit. ArianeGroup, MT-Aerospace, ELV, Deim... Read more
Maxar Technologies and its four businesses have participated at the four-day SmallSat Symposium that kicked off Monday in Mountain View, California, to present their new satellite platforms... Read more
A new Frost & Sullivan analysis predicts the space industry to see the launch of at least 13,000 satellites and entry of over 60 new companies into the upstream market by 2030. The marke... Read more
Orbital ATK has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to build an evolved expendable launch vehicle designed to transport and field small satellites and other payloads. The contract wi... Read more
Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, has said venture capital firms have made “consistent” investments in space companies amid the lack of “megadeals” involving space star... Read more
A small satellite built by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for Telesat has been delivered to the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch base in Eastern Russia ahead of its scheduled late Novem... Read more
DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts
NASA has awarded blanket purchase agreements to three companies to provide the agency with Earth observation data sets derived from constellations of commercial small satellites. Maxar Techn... Read more