Satellite News

Voyager Space announced the acquisition of Valley Tech Systems (VTS), a technology company focused on developing controllable solid hypersonic propulsion and open architecture ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) technologies.

BridgeComm, Inc., a provider of optical wireless communications (OWC) solutions and services, announced that it will enter into a strategic agreement with HySpecIQ, a satellite-powered hyperspectral analytics company. BridgeComm’s high-speed optical downlink was selected for integration on HySpecIQ’s new low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

NASA partnered with the U.S. Space Force to launch four CubeSats — miniature satellites — on the Atlas V rocket that carried Landsat 9: CUTE (Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment), CuPID (Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector), and Cesium Satellites 1 and 2.

EnduroSat, provider of software-defined NanoSats and Space Services for business and academia, and Exolaunch announced the signing of launch agreements for sending two EnduroSat NanoSats into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9.

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) last month moved its second COSMO SkyMed Second Generation satellite (CSG-2) to a Falcon 9 rocket, citing delays in the availability of the Vega-C launcher that originally was to carry the radar satellite.

NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Government of India company under the Department of Space (DOS), has chosen Arianespace to launch its GSAT-24 telecommunications satellite.