Satellite News

Voyager Space Inc. announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Space Micro is an engineering-driven business focused on advancing high-performance satellite communications, digital, and electro-optical systems with over 2.7 million hours of space flight heritage.

Voyager Space Inc. announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Space Micro is an engineering-driven business focused on advancing high-performance satellite communications, digital, and electro-optical systems with over 2.7 million hours of space flight heritage.

Construction of the New National GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Frame Network of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) has been completed. The new network was built by e-GEOS and is set to provide up-to-date, high-precision geodetic information through the signals generated by the satellite navigation systems.

The first Airbus built Inmarsat-6, I-6 F1, satellite has been shipped from Airbus in Toulouse, France to Tanegashima in Japan ready for launch.

Rocket Lab USA entered into an exclusive license agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to commercialise near and deep space capable small spacecraft telemetry and control radio technology.

Telesat Corporation announced that it is now a public company and will begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) under the ticker symbol “TSAT.”

Aon plc, a professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, announced a new collaboration with satellite and persistent monitoring expert ICEYE to provide insurers with flood hazard data following severe flooding events in Japan, helping them to reduce volatility and better understand the post-event impact on their portfolios.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the Sun and its connection to ‘space weather’. During the flyby Solar Orbiter must pass through the clouds of space debris that surround our planet, making this manoeuvre the riskiest flyby yet for a science mission.