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First UK satellite launch with Prometheus-2 set for summer 2022

Homeland May 11, 2022

As part of a three-year mission two satellites will operate close to Earth experimenting and test imaging and interoperability. The first satellite launch from the UK will take place this summer as Prometheus-2 takes off from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, the Defence Procurement Minister, Jeremy Quin has announced. Built by In-Space Missions ...

Lockheed Martin LINUSS small satellites ready for 2021 launch

Air August 20, 2021

Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LINUSS) completed environmental testing and is ready for launch later this year, demonstrating how small CubeSats can regularly upgrade satellite constellations to add timely new capabilities and extend spacecraft design lives. LINUSS is a pair of LM 50 12U CubeSats — each about the size ...

DPRTE Engage partner Lockheed Martin And USC build La Jument CubeSats

Air August 13, 2020

DPRTE Engage partner, Lockheed Martin, is building mission payloads for a Space Engineering Research Center at University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute small satellite program called La Jument, which enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) space technologies. For the program, four La Jument nanosatellites – the first launching later this year ...

Dstl to study effects of space weather on communications

Homeland January 23, 2018

A new experiment to study the effects of space weather on global communications is being launched by the UK and US governments. Using specially designed shoebox-sized satellites known as CubeSats, scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will be able to study the Earth’s upper atmosphere and find out how ...