Satellite News

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.

Airbus Defence and Space and its partners Fraunhofer IIS, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Bundeswehr University Munich and Eurescom GmbH, recently kicked-off a project to study the delivery of standards based on 5G and beyond 5G communication services over a space-based infrastructure.

GomSpace Luxembourg s.a.r.l. and the space technology company OHB have signed a contract for the Inter Satellite Link system for the ESA Hera mission to be delivered in June 2022. The PATP value is €500,000.

GomSpace enters into an agreement with SpaceAble, to enhance the sustainability of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The contract is worth SEK21 million (€2 million) and the project will begin in 2021 with expected delivery in late 2023.