Satellite News

Delaware-based satellite firm Swarm Technologies has filed a request with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to transfer its existing satellite and ground station licenses to SpaceX. According to the filings, Swarm would become a will be a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of SpaceX upon the closing of the deal.

SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) announced operational success of next generation commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) processing hardware as part of a risk reduction technology demonstration supporting the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Blackjack Program.

Aitech, a provider of rugged board and system level solutions for military, aerospace and space applications, has announced that its mission-critical, space rated flight computers will enable communications technologies onboard the second production block of small satellites being developed by Astranis.

The Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) has awarded a contract to Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to build the NorSat-4 maritime tracking microsatellite. NorSat-4 will be the eighth satellite developed by SFL for Norway, including NorSat-3 launched in April 2021 and the NorSat Technology Demonstrator (NorSat-TD) now under construction.

A train with the Prichal nodal space module has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos said in a statement.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is set to launch the company’s 16th resupply mission (NG-16) to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract.