Military/Aerospace Electronics

Lockheed Martin has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Terran Orbital, the satellite manufacturer based in Boca Raton, Florida. The deal awaits regulatory and Terran Orbital stockholder approval. The acquisition enables Lockheed Martin to expanding its “advanced satellite manufacturing and responsive space capabilities”, said the company. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 of this year. And the deal ...

Kuva Space, a Finnish Earth observation company, is celebrating the successful launch of its hyperspectral microsatellite Hyperfield-1, intended to demonstrate its future subscription-based commercial services. It marks the initial stage of Kuva’s constellation, which aims to provide daily observation by 2027 and gapless subdaily global monitoring with 100 satellites by 2030. The microsatellite – launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from ...

United Electronic Industries has launched a four-slot military-grade IO system for aerospace and defence. DNR-MIL-4 measures ~240 x 180 x 109mm and is designed to comply with MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-1275/708 and MIL-STD-461F. Operation is over -40 to +85°C. There are three versions, with: a 8347 PowerPC, an Arm-based SoloX, or a quad-core Zynq UltraScale+ main processor IC. “For use in PowerDNA/slaved ...

Quadsat is providing a simplified method of testing for the antenna registration process, the Danish company has announced. This is to test user terminals, including fixed, comms-on-the-move (COTM) and phased array, as well as earth stations across the network. The drone-based testing company says it is working with major satellite operators. This includes a partnership with GovSat to allow all ...

SES Space & Defense has been awarded a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC) contract to help support the force’s airborne operations. The company will provide geostationary (GEO) Ku-band satellite services to support the ACC’s remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) training and testing programme. This will involve SES’s GEO fleet of satellites to provide ground-to-air and air-to-ground transmissions coverage ...

The UK government has released figures for the “size and health” of the UK space industry in 2023, its latest annual report on the UK space sector. Revenue UK space industry income amounted to £18.9bn, it says. And while the industry consists of organisations of all sizes, in terms of space-related income it is highly concentrated, the report notes. Twenty ...

ispace EUROPE has completed the assembly of a flight model of a small lunar rover, described as a micro-rover. It was designed and manufactured in-house in Luxembourg. The European subsidiary of ispace says the micro-rover will next be transported to Japan. Once there, it will installed on the “HAKUTO-R” Mission 2 RESILIENCE Lander, a lunar lander. Micro-rover Dubbed TENACIOUS, the ...

The number of satellites in orbit that can be used for IoT connectivity will grow 150% over the next five years according to the latest findings from Juniper Research. The market analyst predicts the number of these satellites will grow from 10,000 in 2024 to over 24,000 by 2029. It attributes this to “increased demand for connectivity in nomadic locations ...

Ubotica, the space AI specialist, is highlighting what it describes as a significant milestone in Live Earth Intelligence for its CogniSAT-6 satellite mission. It is has achieved successful onboard AI detection of objects on Earth and also the immediate relay of insight data to users on the ground. The Dublin-based company says it marks the world’s first commercial deployment of ...

Dawn Aerospace, the Netherlands satellite propulsion specialist, has unveiled its new on-orbit docking and refueling system, its DFT port. Specifically, it is the Docking and Fluid Transfer (DFT) port. This is for its SatDrive propulsion systems, to enable in-space refueling for its customers. Note that the DFT port is only first scheduled to launch in 2025. However, the company said ...