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Mynaric Reports Production Delays, Slashes Financial Guidance
Mynaric is experiencing production delays on its laser communication terminals, causing the company to slash its revenue guidance. Mynaric updated its guidance on August 20 and also announced the company’s CFO Stefan Berndt von-Bulow left the company for personal reasons last week. Mynaric now expects revenue in 2024 to range between 16 million euros to…
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Polaris Dawn astronauts, set to perform first commercial spacewalk, arrive in Florida ahead of launch
The crew of the Polaris Dawn mission pose in front of the Alpha jets they flew in on to the Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: Mission Specialist Anna Menon, Pilot Scott “Kidd” Potent, Commander Jared Isaacman, Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now The four-member crew of what is set to be an…
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Terran Orbital Schedules the Launch of Pathfinder-R and Pathfinder-4 Mission
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global company in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the scheduled launch of its Pathfinder-R (PTD-R) and Pathfinder-4 (PTD-4) spacecraft. These 6U Triumph class space vehicles are set to launch aboard the Transporter-11 Rideshare mission with SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on August 16.…
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ICEYE Launches Four New Satellites Expanding World’s Largest SAR Constellation
ICEYE, the global company in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operations for Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully launched four new SAR satellites on August 16, 2024. The new satellites further expand the world’s largest SAR constellation, owned and operated by ICEYE. The satellites were integrated via Exolaunch and successfully lifted…
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Launch Roundup: Polaris Dawn aims high, Starlink launches continue
A total of five flights were on the worldwide launch manifest for this week. Most notable was to be the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Polaris Dawn mission. A modified Crew Dragon capsule will carry four astronauts into the highest orbit a crewed mission has flown in since the Gemini missions. In…
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Spire Global Successfully Launches Seven LEMUR Satellites on SpaceX Transporter-11 mission
Spire Global, Inc., one of the global providers of space-based data, analytics, and space services, successfully launched seven satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-11 mission, which launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on August 16, 2024. This marks Spire’s third launch of 2024 and the 41st in the company’s history, bringing the total number…
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SpaceX launches new Falcon 9 rocket on Starlink mission following ‘water intrusion’ issue
A Falcon 9 rocket soars above Florida on the Starlink 10-5 mission. NASA and SpaceX decided to use the first launch of booster B1085 on this Starlink flight instead of first flying it on the Crew-9 mission due to a “water intrusion” issue that happened during transport from Texas to Florida. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now…
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SES Certifies All.Space Terminals to Operate on its Network
SES has certified All.Space terminals to operate on the company’s Ka-band Geostationary (GEO) satellites and its Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) O3b network. All.Space announced the update on Tuesday. All.Space says it is the first electronically steered antenna to be certified on SES’s new O3b mPOWER network. The company’s antennas are able to simultaneously connect over both…
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NATO Taps Planet Labs to Track Global Threats with SkySat Imagery
Planet Labs will provide high-resolution satellite data to support the NATO Communications and Information Agency‘s (NCIA) Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) program under a new contract the company announced Monday. The data, sourced from Planet’s SkySat system, will be used to track and analyze foreign military capabilities and activities, monitor military infrastructure, and assess…
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BAE Systems Ships Primary Instrument for Roman Space Telescope Post Testing
BAE System, a British multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, has announced the successful shipment of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI) to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, signaling the completion of integration and testing of the state-of-the-art instrument. The WFI is the primary scientific instrument for…