BusinessDebrisTechnology

Kayhan Space Beefs Up its Space Traffic Coordination Tool

Kayhan Space merged its two most popular products in a new offering launched today, dubbed the Satcat Product Suite. The new system combines Satcat’s publicly available, real-time space situational awareness data with Pathfinder’s space traffic coordination tools, offering satellite operators a single platform to manage their sats—and avoid running into one another. Same same, but […]

DebrisStartupsTechnology

Kall Morris Inc. Begins ISS Residency

The system will prove out technology that could eventually grab objects on orbit, allowing KMI to move debris out of congested orbital lanes or relocate satellites that don’t have enough juice to move themselves. 

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NASA, Starfish Partner on SSPICY Debris Inspection 

NASA is kickin’ it up a notch on a SSPICY mission to check out a defunct sat in LEO. Starfish Space will work on the program—formally known as the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability mission—under a Phase III SBIR contract from the space agency worth $15M over three years, NASA announced on Wednesday. A […]

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Slingshot Tracks Centaur Break-Up in HEO

The second stage of a ULA rocket that sent a NOAA weather satellite to orbit in 2018 broke apart dramatically in orbit last week, generating a debris cloud first tracked by Slingshot Aerospace.