Satellite News

NanoAvionics has signed a contract with US-company Accion Systems to host their propulsion system, TILE 3, on-board its new rideshare mission for a demonstration flight in 2021. Accion Systems procured this flight as the culmination of an ongoing U.S. government sponsored propulsion programme.

ENPULSION said it has launched the ENPULSION MICRO to cover the propulsion needs of heavier satellites which want to use the FEEP technology currently used in the company’s NANO product range. First units have already been shipped to customers.

Blue Origin plans to launch its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on an uncrewed test flight Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Telescopes have captured the rare light flash from a dying star as it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. 

Get ready to see the Red Planet up close this week: , offering the closest view of the planet until 2035.

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft has beamed home some deep-space selfies snapped by a small camera jettisoned during its journey to Mars.

On Oct. 12, 1964, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1, a 24-hour crewed mission that achieved several “firsts” for human spaceflight. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

There’s a rising call for “unidentified aerial phenomena” to be studied scientifically, perhaps even using satellites to be on the lookout for possible future events.