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York Space Systems automates ground system operations

April 13, 2021 / Space News / SAN FRANCISCO – York Space Systems has learned a lot from operating its first production-model spacecraft in orbit for two years. The biggest takeaway, though, has been the need to automate satellite handling on the ground. “In the first...

York Space Systems building larger LX-CLASS satellite platform

April 27, 2021 / Space News / TAMPA, Fla. — Smallsat specialist York Space Systems is producing a larger satellite platform with double the payload volume of its current spacecraft bus in response to market demand. The new LX-CLASS is designed to have a total mass of...

SDA Awards Contracts for the First Generation of the Transport Layer

August 31, 2020 / Space Development Agency / SDA announced August 31 two contract awards for the first generation of the Transport Layer. These awards represent one of the first major and highly visible steps toward developing the National Defense Space Architecture’s...

Lockheed Martin, York Space to produce 20 satellites for Space Development Agency

August 31, 2020 / Space News / WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s space agency on Aug. 31 announced the first major contract awards for a network of satellites in low Earth orbit that will talk to each other and relay data down to military forces on the ground, on ships or...

LatConnect 60 selects York to build and operate satellites

June 9, 2020 / SpaceNews / SAN FRANCISCO - Australian Earth observation startup LatConnect 60 announced plans June 9 to hire York Space Systems to manufacture small satellites and to operate its Earth observation constellation. LatConnect 60, a company founded in...

York opens manufacturing facility, hires engineering chief

May 19, 2020 / SpaceNews / SAN FRANCISCO – York Space Systems announced the opening May 19 of its new manufacturing facility in Denver, a key step in the firm’s campaign to expand mass manufacturing of small...