Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today celebrated the launch of the latest pair of Galileo First Generation satellites, SAT-33 and SAT-34 carrying SSTL payloads, which lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 launch vehicle.

Skyports Drone Services (Skyports) has completed a move into its new flagship, purpose-built, Drone Operations Hub in Westcott Venture Park, equipping the company with a state-of-the-art centralised facility for its UK, European and global drone operations.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems’ FAST Labs research, development and production organisation a $16 million Phase 2 contract for the Oversight programme.

The UK's first licensed spaceport, Spaceport Cornwall, has commenced work on a groundbreaking project with the National Drone Hub to establish a unique testing environment for uncrewed aerial systems (UAS).

GMV, through its subsidiaries in the UK and Portugal, in partnership with Loughborough University, has been awarded a contract under the European Space Agency’s NAVISP programme to develop BEACON, an advanced beamforming antenna and receiver system designed to improve the resilience of C-band radionavigation signals from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ...

Korean launch provider INNOSPACE has selected Viasat’s rocket telemetry service for its first ever commercial launch, marking the first time this service will be used in a commercial mission carrying satellite payloads.