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Munich New Space Summit 2024: A Global Hub for Pioneering Space Exploration
The Munich New Space Summit 2024 set to take place from October 23 – 25, 2024, at the Science Congress Center Munich is announced to become a significant milestone in the evolving landscape of commercial space exploration. This three-day summit will bring together a diverse assembly of experts, researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers from around…
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NASA Chooses Three New Venture-Class Launch Service Providers
NASA has selected three companies to provide launch services for future agency missions through its VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) contract. The companies awarded are: Arrow Science and Technology LLC of Webster, Texas Impulse Space Inc. of Redondo Beach, California Momentus Space LLC of San Jose, California The VADR contract is a firm-fixed-price,…
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Viasat Wins $154M Contract for Blue Force Tracker-2 Engineering
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded Viasat a $153.5 million contract for engineering support services for the U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker-2 system. The award announced Aug. 22 by the U.S. Department of Defense is a non-competitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost contract with a one-year base period of performance with four one-year options. The contract is…
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Amazon Invests Nearly $20M in Second Kuiper Facility at Kennedy Space Center
Amazon continues to invest in facilities for its Project Kuiper constellation, announcing a second facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Last year, Project Kuiper broke ground on a $120 million satellite processing facility, and Amazon is now adding a secondary support facility at the site in a new, $19.5 million investment, the company…
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Overcoming Landing Rights Issues to Expand Access to Satellite
Imagine you are a European satellite operator looking to sell your capacity and land signals into a given region or territory. You’ve got the necessary ground segment and orbital resources in place, your mandatory International Telecommunication Union (ITU) filing secured and coordination in progress. If you were looking to wholesale the capacity only in Europe,…
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Eutelsat Secures Broadcast Renewal in Latin America With Cable Color
Eutelsat Group signed a multi-year renewal with Cable Color for satellite capacity to continue broadcast services in Latin America. Cable Color, based in Honduras, is a longtime customer of Eutelsat’s. The deal announced Aug. 22 continues service on the Eutelsat 117 West A satellite. The 117 degrees West location is the premium TV neighborhood for…
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Cards on the table: Are Butch and Suni coming home on Starliner or Crew Dragon?
After months of consideration, NASA said Thursday that it will finally decide the fate of two astronauts on board the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, by this weekend. As soon as Saturday, the two crew members will learn whether they’ll return on a Starliner spacecraft in early September or a Crew Dragon…
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Rocket technology-powered device saves patients with heart failure
Li Haining was once on the brink of death from severe heart disease, but 1,174 days ago, he was given a new lease of life. The 25-year-old patient from the city of Shijiazhuang, north China’s Hebei Province, underwent surgery three years ago to implant an artificial heart in place of his failed organ. The surgery…
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China launches new communications satellite
China on Thursday sent a new communications satellite into orbit from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province. The ChinaSat 4A satellite was launched at 8:25 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a modified Long March-7 carrier rocket. The satellite will provide voice, data, radio and television transmission services. The launch was the 532nd…
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