Space
Boeing-built Space Force Satellite Passes Design Review
WGS-11+ to deliver twice the capability of its predecessors. Boeing and the U.S. Space Force successfully completed the first major engineering design review for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)-11+ communications...
Boeing to Showcase ‘Low Earth Orbit to Deep Space’ Portfolio at International Astronautical Congress
Virtual exhibit to feature CST-100 Starliner, Space Launch System, International Space Station, Satellites and Collier Award-winning X-37B. Boeing will participate in the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) – The CyberSpace Edition,...
Boeing Announces Third-Quarter Deliveries
The Boeing Company announced major program deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the third quarter of 2020. “We continue to work closely with our customers around the globe,...
Airbus-built Copernicus satellite Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is readied to fly to Vandenberg for launch
Airbus space engineers are preparing the European ocean satellite “Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich” for its journey to the Vandenberg launch site in California. Next week, the satellite will be loaded...
Airbus selected for ESA’s new polar ice and snow topography mission
CRISTAL will measure sea ice thickness and ice sheet elevations. Airbus in Germany will lead the industrial consortium. Contract is worth € 300 million. The European Space Agency (ESA) has...
SEOSAT-Ingenio starts its journey to space
Last night, the Spanish satellite SEOSAT-Ingenio, built by Airbus, was loaded at the Torrejón de Ardóz air base, near Madrid, on board an Antonov 124 cargo plane to fly to...
Airbus to bring first Mars samples to Earth: ESA contract award
A new decade of European exploration – to the Moon and Mars. Airbus to design and build the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) for Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign. ERO will...
Airbus selected for ESA’s Moon lander study
A new decade of European exploration – to the Moon and Mars. Airbus to design the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3). EL3 to deliver scientific or logistic payloads to lunar...
General Atomics Presents Key Space Technologies at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that Dr. David Robie, Senior Director of Space Systems at GA-EMS, and Dr. Aaron Freeman, Manager of Optical Engineering at GA-EMS, will be presenting...
General Atomics Delivers Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Concept to NASA
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has delivered a design concept of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) reactor to power future astronaut missions to Mars for a...
