14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... president. The mission will utilise Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket, an air-launch to orbit rocket designed to loft smallsat payloads of 300 kilograms into a Sun-synchronous orbit. Although LauncherOne has not made any flights into...
29 January 2016
Canadian SmallSat Symposium to be Held in Toronto, February 2-3
..., the global space sector generated $330 billion in revenues. According to a 2015 Euroconsult report on small satellites, 510 SmallSats will be launched in the next 5 years, valued at $7.4 billion. This figure does not include any of SpaceX' planned...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... monitoring, consumer IoT applications and simple communications. The company plans to launch a fleet of more than 100 smallsats with launches expected to start in 2018. In April 2017, it raised AUD$5 million in a Series A funding round led...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
...half of the investment dollars being sown in the past two years [1]. These investments are in commercial operational smallsat projects, not merely technology demonstration and basic science experiments made by government space organisations. And they...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
...Galactic and Rocket Lab but with more than 10,000 smallsats predicted to be launched worldwide over the next 10 years... vehicle aims to cater for the burgeoning domestic and international smallsat market. The XL is still undergoing final design, and ...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
Back in 2011, when Planet Labs was just a handful of engineers and scientists working in a garage in Cupertino, California, I was one of the first employees of the company and my main role was working on the radio subsystem. Being at a startup, I ...
