IARU Grants Frequency to Australian CubeSat to use 76 GHz
The IARU Satellite Coordination Panel has announced the amateur radio frequencies for the Australian 76 GHz CubeSat CUAVA-1 that is expected to launch in July 2019
CUAVA-1 is a 3U CubeSat and the first CubeSat project of...
Amazon Secretly Hiring SpaceX Employees
When billionaires have set eyes on the same trophy, but have distinct goals – one setting goals as far as Mars and the other comfortably settling for below the Karman Line. Such is the...
Rocket Lab Enters Satellites Manufacturing Business
Rocket Lab has added satellite manufacturing to its list of services which are being rendered to its customers who need access to space for data & other related services. Amongst the NewSpace category of...
Boeing, Australian Space Agency Commit to Future Collaboration
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Apr. 9, 2019 — Boeing and the Australian Space Agency have signed a Statement of Strategic Intent to help advance the agency’s goals to expand Australia’s domestic space industry.
By 2030, Australia...
Self-driving spacecraft set for planetary defence expedition
(5 April 2019 - ESA) Engineers designing ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission to the Didymos asteroid pair are developing advanced technology to let the spacecraft steer itself through space, taking a similar approach to...
Tensions After India’s Anti-Satellite Missile Test Causing Untracked Debris
U.S Strategic Command is still tracking the 400 fragments of a satellite destroyed a week earlier by the Indian military on March 27. The Indian military blew up one of its own satellites while...
Amazon to Launch over 3000 Broadband Satellites
Amazon is entering the satellite-broadband race. It will launch 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit to bring high-speed, affordable internet across the world.
The Amazon effort, code-named Project Kuiper, first became public through regulatory filings with...
New SES Satellites Swarming the MEO
April 4 saw the delivery of four communication satellites into space on an Arianespace Soyuz Rocket. These four added to the already existing 16 making the constellation to 20.
Within 2 hours 22 minutes of...
Australian Space Agency to Build Mission Control Center
The Australian Space Agency (ASA) is to receive $6 million each for a Mission Control Center and a Space Discovery Center; as announced by the government.
The funding will be one of the constituents which...
SENER and IK4-TEKNIKER collaborate in the development of smart coatings for space satellites
(4 April 2019 - SENER) SENER and technology centre IK4-TEKNIKER are collaborating in the development of PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) coatings to provide additional functionalities for the surfaces of critical satellite components used in...
