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Redwire Supplies Roll-Out Solar Arrays for Thales Space Inspire Line
Thales Alenia Space placed a follow-on order with Redwire Corporation for additional Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings for the manufacturer’s Space Inspire line of satellites. The follow-on order increases the total number of shipsets that Redwire will deliver based on its existing agreement with Thales Alenia Space, announced in June. Redwire announced the deal on…
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ESA’s Meteosat Satellite Advances Towards Launch After Successful Environmental Test Campaign
As climate change drives more frequent and severe weather events, the need for accurate and timely forecasting has never been more critical. And now, the next Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite has passed its environmental test campaign with flying colours, taking it a significant step closer to launch. This new generation of satellites is set…
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Safran Plays a Vital Role in the Flight Success of Ariane 6
Ariane 6 is a European Space Agency (ESA) program to build a family of launch vehicles capable of placing any kind of payload on an optimized orbit, whatever the mission, be it low Earth orbit (LEO), geostationary (GTO) or sun-synchronous (SSO). With a large storage capacity, Ariane 6 can perform conventional, single or double launches,…
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NASA Selects BAE Systems to Develop Next-Generation Optical System for HWO Space Telescope
BAE Systems and strategic partners L3Harris Technologies and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have been selected as one of three teams to mature technologies in support of NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission concept. A first of its kind telescope, HWO will be designed to seek out signs of life beyond our solar system…
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NASA and NGA Deliver Laser Retroflector Arrays for Upcoming GPS Satellites
The U.S. Space Force delivered two laser retroflector arrays built by NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGIA) to Lockheed Martin for upcoming GPS satellites. Space Force announced last week that the laser retroflector arrays (LRAs) were delivered in May under a directed program to rapidly integrate hosted payloads on GPS satellites ahead of launch…
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NASA and NGA Deliver Laser Retroflector Arrays for Upcoming GPS Satellites
The U.S. Space Force delivered two laser retroflector arrays built by NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGIA) to Lockheed Martin for upcoming GPS satellites. Space Force announced last week that the laser retroflector arrays (LRAs) were delivered in May under a directed program to rapidly integrate hosted payloads on GPS satellites ahead of launch…
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EchoStar Launches Open RAN Development Lab
EchoStar Corporation has opened a new Open RAN (O-RAN) testing and evaluation lab at the company’s data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID) is a site where vendors can test and validate O-RAN solutions using EchoStar’s live O-RAN network. The facility was supported by a $50 million…
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General Atomics Secures Contract for Second EWS Satellite and On-Orbit Services from USSF
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded GA-EMS a contract modification to help alleviate Government on-orbit risks through delivery of a second weather satellite and to provide three years of operations services for each of the two satellites to support the Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR)…
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Thales Alenia Space and Exotrail Collaborate on Ground Segment Software
Thales Alenia Space and Exotrail will develop a surveillance, command and control (SCC) ground segment solution designed for constellations of small satellites. The two companies have signed an MoU in order to work together and develop this solution, announcing the MoU on July 12. This collaboration intends to integrate Exotrail’s spacetower flight dynamics system (FDS)…