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AvL Technologies Makes Management Changes With CEO’s Retirement
AvL Technologies has announced changes to its executive team with the retirement of CEO Guy Clerici. The company’s owner and founder Jim Oliver semi-retired in 2022 and appointed Clerici to serve as interim CEO during this transitional period and while a new chairman of the board was selected. AVL announced July 10 the company has…
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NASA CubeSat Rides on ESA’s First Ariane 6 Launch
NASA has launched CURIE (CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment) as a rideshare payload on the inaugural flight of ESA’s (European Space Agency) Ariane 6 rocket, which launched on July 9 from Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, in French Guiana. Designed by a team from the University of California, Berkeley, CURIE will use radio…
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Alpine Space Ventures Closes $185M Fund to Target Space Startups
European venture capital firm Alpine Space Ventures closed its first fund with 170 million euros ($185 million) in capital to target space startups. The fund is targeting Series A funding rounds of companies in the space sector, primarily in Europe but also in the U.S. and beyond. The fund has a special focus on companies…
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Gravitics Secures Axiom’s Contract to Construct Commercial Space Infrastructure
Gravitics, an aerospace company that designs and manufactures large space structures, has announced that it has been awarded a $125-million contract by Axiom Space, a leader in the commercial space industry, to provide a pressurized spacecraft that will support Axiom Station operations. The Gravitics spacecraft will play a utility role and will be capable of…
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Congress apparently feels a need for “reaffirmation” of SLS rocket
There is a curious section in the new congressional reauthorization bill for NASA that concerns the agency’s large Space Launch System rocket. The section is titled “Reaffirmation of the Space Launch System,” and in it Congress asserts its commitment to a flight rate of twice per year for the rocket. The reauthorization legislation, which cleared…
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Moog Debuts New Radiation-Hardened Space Computer
Moog is rolling out a new space computer designed to support the next-generation of on-orbit computing needs. The company announced the Moog Cascade Single Board Computer (SBC) on July 9. It is a radiation-hardened space computer for multi-mission, bus/payload applications for all orbital regimes. The SBC also incorporates Layer 2 ethernet switch capabilities for data…
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D-Orbit Expands its Presence in US Satellite Manufacturing Market
D-Orbit, a company in the space infrastructure, logistics and orbital transportation industry, announced that it has formed D-Orbit USA, a joint venture with Mike Cassidy, Mark Krebs, Miles Gazic, Danny Field, and David Harrower to strengthen their presence in the US satellite bus market. D-Orbit USA is the latest addition to the D-Orbit Group and…
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Europe’s Ariane 6 Heavy-Lift Rocket Successfully Completes Inaugural Flight
Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 16:00 local time on 9 July (+4 20:00 time BST, +5 21:00 time CEST). Ariane 6 is the latest in Europe’s Ariane rocket series, taking over from Ariane 5, and featuring a modular and versatile design that can…
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Beryl is just the latest disaster to strike the energy capital of the world
I’ll readily grant you that Houston might not be the most idyllic spot in the world. The summer heat is borderline unbearable. The humidity is super sticky. We don’t have mountains or pristine beaches—we have concrete. But we also have a pretty amazing melting pot of culture, wonderful cuisine, lots of jobs, and upward mobility.…