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Firefly Aerospace Completes Testing of Blue Ghost Lander for NASA CLPS Mission
Firefly Aerospace, a leading company in end-to-end responsive space services, announced it completed environmental testing on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the Moon supporting NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly is now preparing to ship the lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in mid-December for launch on a…
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KSAT to Work on Australian Lunar Project
Kongsberg Satellites Services (KSAT) will play a key role in an ambitious lunar project in Australia. It will team up with Australian company Starsite to build a 20-meter antenna for their new site in Western Australia. Starsite owns the land and will maintain and operate the antenna. KSAT announced the partnership, Nov. 26. Starsite was…
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Airbus to Provide UK MoD With Modems for Skynet Milsatcom
Airbus has signed a contract with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence to provide the next-generation modems for the nation’s Skynet satellite communications constellation. Airbus is building the Skynet 6A satellite for the MoD under a 500 million pound contract announced in 2020. Skynet is a milsatcom system for the MoD that provides beyond line…
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Rocket Lab Secures U.S. Department of Commerce Award to Expand Semiconductor Production
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, has finalized a $23.9 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to increase its compound semiconductor manufacturing capability and capacity at the Company’s Albuquerque, New Mexico facility. The semiconductors produced by Rocket Lab are used in space-grade solar cells and other optoelectronic…
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Spectrum AMT Selected as Satellite Bus Manufacturing Partner for D-Orbit USA
Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, a subsidiary of Ocutrx Technologies, and a leading company in precision electronics and assemblies manufacturing for over 25 years, announced it has been named manufacturing partner for D-Orbit USA, the recently formed U.S. member company of Italian space logistics company D-Orbit Group. As part of the partnership, Spectrum is renovating a…
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NOAA Awards Slingshot Aerospace Small Contract for Space Traffic User Interface
Slingshot Aerospace on Nov. 25 received a potential $13.3 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to develop the user interface for a new space traffic coordination system that will used by satellite operators worldwide and provide them with notifications of potential in-space collisions. The award for the presentation layer of the…
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NASA Secures SpaceX Launch Services for Upcoming Dragonfly Mission
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission will sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings, advancing our search for the building blocks of life. The firm-fixed-price contract has a value…
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Sidus Space Completes Launch Processing of LizzieSat-2
Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, announced the successful completion of the launch processing of LizzieSat-2 at the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. LizzieSat-2 has been turned over to SpaceX and is ready for launch on the Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission, which is targeted for no earlier than…
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FCC Approves Starlink Direct-to-Cell Service With T-Mobile
The FCC gave SpaceX approval to operate satellite direct-to-cellular service with T-Mobile in an order released Nov. 26. This is the FCC’s first instance of approving supplemental coverage from space (SCS) — in which satellites communicate directly with unmodified cell phones using mobile network operator (MNO) spectrum, to “supplement” the reach of the MNO’s network.…
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Starbase continues its rapid pace of advancement after Starship Flight 6
With a successful test of Starship Flight 6, SpaceX has continued building on its many projects around Starbase. Repair work has begun around the launch site, with damage found in different areas of the tower from prior launches. A proposed Gigabay could be coming to the Starbase production site shortly, and Ship 26 has finally…