Satellite News

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has submitted its purpose-built Vulcan Centaur rocket for the U.S. Air Force’s Phase 2 Launch Services competition.

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spacecraft has hit the milestone of 700 days in orbit during its current Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) mission and is just a few weeks short of breaking the vehicle’s spaceflight-duration record.

According to Euroconsult’s newly released research, Prospects for the Small Satellite Market, the market for small satellite (smallsat) manufacturing and launch will grow from US$12.6 billion in 2009-2018 to US$42.8 billion in the coming decade from 2019-2028, nearly quadrupling in size.

Russian state-run corporation Roskosmos has obtained a patent for a satellite that destroys itself after the end of service or an unexpected breakdown.

ICEYE said it is the first in the world to achieve better-than 1 meter resolution imagery from under-100 kg SAR satellites.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it was selected by the PSN Consortium, led by Indonesian satellite operator Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) to deliver a unified ground station monitoring solution to support SATRIA, the first Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) in the region.

Vector Launch Inc. (Vector) announced that it is “undertaking a pause of operations in response to a significant change in financing.”

Viasat Inc. announced financial results for the fiscal first quarter ending 30 June 2019.