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Terran Orbital Establishes Strategic Partnership With Hanwha Systems
Terran Orbital and South Korea’s Hanwha Systems announced an MoU on Wednesday to work together on satellite manufacturing, including solar cells, and cooperate in the defense industry in both the U.S. and South Korea. The announcement was light on details, but the companies said the MoU establishes a framework for joint research and development efforts…
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NOAA’s GOES-U Satellite is On its Way to Orbit
The GOES-U weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is on its way to its final orbital position after a Tuesday SpaceX launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket. This satellite will provide data for weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and climate monitoring. SpaceX launched the satellite on a Falcon Heavy rocket on…
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Intelsat Orders GEO Servicing Mission from Starfish Space
Intelsat has ordered a satellite servicing mission from Starfish Space for its Otter servicing vehicle. This will be Starfish’s first mission to provide services to a commercial satellite operator with Otter. Under the deal announced Wednesday, Starfish will begin its first servicing mission for Intelsat in 2026. At first, Otter will dock with and maneuver…
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Space ISAC Broadens its Reach into Australia
The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) continues to make its presence felt in markets worldwide. It has signed a new MoU with the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre (Aus3C) as it looks to foster a global approach towards space cybersecurity. Space ISAC announced the agreement on June 26. The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre…
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Starfish Space signs contract with Intelsat for satellite servicing beginning in 2026
An artist’s conception shows Starfish’s Otter satellite servicing spacecraft. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has signed a contract with Intelsat to provide on-orbit life extension services to a geostationary satellite beginning in 2026. It’s the first commercial contract for Starfish’s Otter satellite servicing spacecraft, which is currently under development. The deal follows up…
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NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag
Almost exactly two years ago, as it prepared for the next generation of human spaceflight, NASA chose a pair of private companies to design and develop new spacesuits. These were to be new spacesuits that would allow astronauts to both perform spacewalks outside the International Space Station as well as walk on the Moon as…
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Sidus Space Signs MOU with NamaSys to Develop a 3D Printing Satellite Manufacturing Facility
Sidus Space, a provider of end-to-end precision space infrastructure solutions that include satellite data as a service on its proprietary orbiting platform, announced the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining its collaboration with NamaSys, a multi-discipline Technology & Electronic Security Consultancy for the establishment of a joint venture with a mission to build,…
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INNOSPACE Secures Multi-Launch Service Contracts to Launch Italian and Thai Satellites
INNOSPACE, a South Korean private spaceflight startup specializing in small satellite launch vehicles, announced that it has signed multi-launch service contracts for the ‘HANBIT’ small satellite launcher with two private satellite companies: CShark S.r.l. in Italy and EOS ORBIT in Thailand. INNOSPACE has taken a step toward the commercialization of its space transportation business by…
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Chang’e-6 returns with lunar samples
The re-entry capsule of the Chang’e-6 lunar probe landed safely at the Siziwang Banner Landing Site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Tuesday. CGTN reporter Zheng Yibing was there to witness the event.
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ATLAS Space Operations Successfully Demonstrates Agility with Launch-Day Integration
SpaceX’s Transporter-10 launch was an exciting day across the space industry. The world watched and waited, cheering as spacecraft operators supported the variety of missions onboard. What the world does not often see, beneath the stars and below that glowing horizon where the contrails began, is the role that the ground segment plays in the…