Rocket Lab launches 35th Electron rocket
It was the company's second Electron mission from Launch Complex 2, located in Virginia, within seven days of its first mission.
It was the company's second Electron mission from Launch Complex 2, located in Virginia, within seven days of its first mission.
Addvalue has designed a new Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite antenna system that allows full communications coverage when satellites are not in view of a ground station.
Tim Kienberger, a former Boeing Co. chief engineer and director, most recently served as a director at defence and communications technology company L3Harris.
The contract reflects growing demand and momentum in the international markets for high-frequency, dawn-to-dusk imagery and analytics.
Rocket Lab will perform the three launches between late August and the end of September from New Zealand.
The addition of these two satellites to the BlackSky constellation aims to bring higher resolution and increased revisits for key customer markets around the world.
BlackSky hopes to accelerate the US Department of Defences ability to leverage low-cost, high-performance, small imaging satellites for tactics, techniques and procedures.
LeoTrack promises satellite operators a range of monitoring capabilities, including precision tracking of satellites, orbital state vectors, real-time orbit visualisation and more.
Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries joint venture plans to disrupt the smallsat industry by producing cost-effective satellites at scale