Terrestrial satellites
Armed with capital and an anchor customer for a trailblazing satellite life extension service, Orbital ATK has signed a contract to loft its first robotic servicing tug aboard a Russian Proton rocket in 2018 on a shared launch with a Eutelsat communications satellite. The Proton rocket and its Breeze M upper stage will send [...]
Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today that it has secured US$21.1 million in Series A funding. The capital will be used to deploy and operate Ceres, an advanced Earth observation business that features the first commercial infrared and hyperspectral sensor platform to better understand and manage humanity’s natural resources. The funding was [...]
NovaWurks™ Inc., a provider of high technology space products and services, today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Arkisys, a forward-thinking provider of large space platforms and innovative spacecraft solutions. The agreement serves to leverage NovaWurks’ Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat™) technology in applying Arkisys’ vision for the next wave of in situ assembled space [...]
