hosted payload
Industry frustrated with slow adoption of hosted payloads
Despite the schedule and cost savings promised by flying government hosted payloads on commercial satellites, industry and former government officials expressed frustration, directed largely at government agencies, with the difficulties they’ve encountered in trying to fly such payloads.
Kacific Aims To Start Ka-band Payload Production This Year
A company that has secured customer commitments from South Pacific island nations for a Ka-band satellite broadband delivery project expects to use those preorders to complete a third round of financing and start production of two Ka-band payloads this year.
CHIRP Reactivation Idea Is Getting Attention
A U.S. Air Force official said it is “questionable” whether an idled experimental missile-warning sensor hosted aboard a commercial telecommunications satellite could be reactivated for civilian use, as has been proposed.
SES Satellite Chosen To Host NASA Solar Science Payload
SES said it would fly a U.S. solar-science mission, called GOLD, as a hosted payload on the company’s SES-14 satellite to launch in 2017 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Iridium Next Seen as Likely Host For MDA’s Kill Assessment Sensors
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has been careful not to identify the satellites that would host its planned network of experimental kill assessment sensors, but industry sources say the likeliest candidate is the Iridium Next constellation of mobile communications satellites.
Editorial | MDA Tries Its Hand with Hosted Payloads
MDA's budget blueprint for 2016 contained a refreshing surprise: a $22 million request to field of commercially hosted sensors that would determine whether or not incoming missiles have been successfully intercepted.
Bridenstine Sees New Potential for CHIRP
Rep. Bridenstine (R-Okla.) has raised the possibility of reactivating an idled missile-warning demonstration sensor hosted aboard a commercial telecommunications satellite.
FAA Aims To Make Tag-along Payloads a Lighter Burden for Launch Providers
The FAA office that licenses U.S. commercial space launches is set to eliminate a paperwork obstacle SpaceX had to negotiate in order to tote a couple dozen tag-along student experiments on a 2012 cargo run to the International Space Station.
Harris Delivers First Aireon Flight Payload
Harris has delivered the first flight payload for the Aireon aircraft navigation venture, which will use the Iridium Next satellite constellation to help airlines save money by flying more efficient routes.
U.S. Air Force Hosted Payload Program Missing One Thing: Military Users
A new U.S. Air Force contracting vehicle for hosting government payloads on commercial satellites likely will be used exclusively for civilian scientific missions for three to five years.
Lockheed Martin Delivers Payload for Fourth SBIRS Satellite
The infrared payload still needs to be integrated and tested on the Space Based Infrared System satellite.
GPS 3 Payload Delivered to Lockheed Martin
Exelis Geospatial Systems has finally shipped the troublesome navigation payload whose developmental hiccups have delayed the first launch of GPS 3.
Senate Spending Bill Directs U.S. Air Force To Develop Alternative GPS Payload
The U.S. Senate’s newly drafted defense spending bill for 2015 directs the Air Force to allocate at least $20 million for work on a space-based digital navigation instrument as a possible alternative to the payload developed for the service’s new-generation GPS 3 satellites.
U.S. Air Force Picks 14 Companies To Support Hosted Payload Efforts
The Air Force is aiming to create a contracting vehicle to standardize the processes and interfaces for placing dedicated military capabilities aboard commercial satellites.
Atlas 5 Lofts Classified NRO Payload
United Launch Alliance celebrates its second launch in six days.
