Satellite News

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced that it recently signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to produce propellant and pressurant tanks for Lockheed Martin’s updated A2100 satellite platform. The five-year contract continues a 20-year relationship between Orbital ATK and Lockheed Martin for satellite fuel tanks produced by the company’s Space Systems Group in Commerce, California.

PlanetiQ announced the opening of its new science and engineering facility in Boulder, Colorado. The facility includes a laboratory clean room where PlanetiQ will complete the development and manufacture of its first 12 Pyxis-RO flight instruments for the world’s first commercial satellite constellation exclusively focused on weather, climate and space weather.

NSR’s Satellite-Based Earth Observation (EO), 7th Edition report, forecasts that data, value-added services and Information Products markets from Earth Observation (EO) will reach US$4.5 billion by 2024, from US$2.3 billion in 2014.