Chinese commercial satellite maker MinoSpace has secured more than $137 million to further its design and production aspirations.

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Kongsberg NanoAvionics hopes to significantly expand its government business after appointing national security specialist Atle Wøllo to lead the Lithuanian small satellite builder.

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Yahsat ordered a pair of low Earth orbit satellites from Airbus amid a $1.1 billion program for its next two geostationary broadband spacecraft, the Emirati operator announced June 10.

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A communications satellite order from Japan’s flagship operator has brought the geostationary orbit market back to par with last year.

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Six-year-old European small satellite maker Aerospacelab has bought AMOS, a Belgian company that has provided optics for spacecraft and ground-based telescopes for more than four decades.

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Thales Alenia Space is laying groundwork for a small satellite factory in Italy that it hopes will be at the forefront of constellation manufacturing in Europe, bringing the continent closer to mass production capabilities across the Atlantic.

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Los Angeles startup Machina Labs is expanding its role in the space sector by working with satellite and hypersonic vehicle manufacturers.

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Italian space company Argotec announced plans Oct. 11 to invests $25 million in a manufacturing facility in Largo, Maryland.

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Smallsats need standardizing now more than ever

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Fortify plans to use the $12.5 million investment to accelerate development of its Digital Composite Manufacturing platform, which prints composite materials designed down to the nanoscale for high performance.

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Companies with a history of manufacturing large geostationary satellites have succeeded in diversifying their product lines to attract new customers.  

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Toronto-based Space Flight Laboratory won a contract to support development of HawkEye 360 satellites to pinpoint the location of radio frequency signals.

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In the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, a litany of follow-on effects from the conflict have reverberated throughout the globe, many of which could achieve permanence as a new norm or standard.

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Belgian startup Aerospacelab announced plans June 14 to establish a new satellite "megafactory” large enough to produce 500 satellites annually.

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Moog Inc. is quadrupling the size of its Colorado space vehicle production facility as the New York-based company long known as a spacecraft component supplier expands its role as a space vehicle integrator.

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For the moment, Millennium Space System’s new small satellite factory looks like a series of huge rooms that are mostly empty except for powerful yellow cranes in the corners and impressive power strips lining the walls.

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Millennium Space Systems is working closely with Boeing, its corporate parent, to gear up for rapid production of spacecraft for government and commercial constellations.

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Shares in satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital Corp. were cleared to begin trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LLAP, Live Long and Prosper

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Two years into the pandemic, satellite production delays underline continuing uncertainty around COVID-19’s lingering effect on the space industry.

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Many satellite constellation developers are opting to build their own satellites.

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York Space Systems is once again expanding manufacturing capacity to meet demand for its standard small satellites.

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Terran Orbital announced an agreement with Space Florida to establish a manufacturing facility on Florida’s Merritt Island large enough to produce more than 1,000 satellites per year.

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OrbAstro, a space-as-a-service startup with visions of flying “tiny satellites in large flocks,” is gearing up to launch its first half-dozen smallsats in 2022 — including its just-announced first micro satellite.

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York Space Systems announced plans May 18 to establish a “mega manufacturing facility” in Denver to quadruple the number of small satellites in production at once.

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