ESA fired a ‘non-explosive actuator’ in stuck bracket of the ESA JUICE spacecraft's RIME antenna to jar in loose. Mission controllers have been trouble shooting the antenna deployment for 3 weeks.

"It's just so fun to be able to see something going from a paper to space," graduate student Katie Varela said. The antenna folds into an "extremely compact cube" that wants to open, with a wire ...

Santa Barbara-based Umbra Space currently operates SAR satellites for Earth observation, while Palo Alto startup Array Labs is developing clusters of small radar satellites designed to work in ...

In late July 2024, the Malargüe deep-space communication station completed an important upgrade of its antenna feed that will allow missions to send much more data back to Earth, a capacity ...

Credit: Array Labs Array Labs, Umbra Space and Raytheon have signed a partnership to speed up the development and deployment of 3D maps of the Earth’s surface using small distributed synthetic ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Array Labs, Umbra Space, and Raytheon, an RTX business, today announced ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Array Labs, Umbra Space, and Raytheon, an RTX business, today announced a strategic three-way teaming ...