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Airbus Delivers First Active Transmit Antenna for Hisdesat’s SpainSat NG-I Satellite
Acceptance testing of the active transmit antenna for Hisdesat’s SpainSat NG-I satellite has been successfully completed following the final radiation pattern tests. The antenna is now being integrated into the satellite at the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France. Once integrated, the antenna and satellite will undergo thermal vacuum tests (TVAC) and then vibration tests. The…
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Starfish Space Awarded $37.5 Million Contract by SSC for Satellite Augmented Maneuver Mission
Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Starfish Space a $37.5 million Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract to build, launch, and operate an Otter satellite vehicle for a first-of-its-kind docking mission designed to provide two years of augmented maneuver for National Security Space assets. Through a partnership with Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) SpaceWERX Program, Starfish Space,…
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US Tells United Nations That Russia Launched Anti-Satellite Mission Last Week
In a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the U.S representative alleged that Russia launched what is likely a new anti-satellite mission last week. U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood spoke during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday, saying Russia launched the satellite on May 16. “Russia launched the satellite into Low-Earth…
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Blue Origin resumes human flights to suborbital space, but it wasn’t perfect
More than 60 years after he was denied an opportunity to become America’s first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight finally traveled into space Sunday with five other passengers on a 10-minute flight inside a Blue Origin capsule. Dwight, a retired Air Force captain and test pilot, had a chance to become the first African American astronaut.…
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Planet Extends its Digital Farming Contract with Germany’s BASF
German smart agriculture company BASF Digital Farming GmbH will expand the scope of its existing contract with Planet Labs in order to access more data from Planet’s Crop Biomass Planetary Variable analysis feed. In an announcement published Tuesday, BASF Digital Farming said it will increase its use of Planet’s satellite data products to power its…
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Daily Telescope: Black holes have been merging for a long, long time
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a…
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Pasqal and Thales Achieve Milestone in Satellite Planning with Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing
Pasqal, a global leader in neutral atom quantum computing, in partnership with Thales, announced a major advancement within the AQUAPS project. This innovative project aimed to explore neutral atom architectures to solve optimization problems, with a particular focus on satellite planning. For the past three years, the teams from Pasqal and Thales, supported by the…
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Sidus Space, L3Harris to Continue DoD Mentor-Protégé Program Support
Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company Sidus Space and L3Harris Technologies announced Tuesday that they will continue working together to support the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Mentor-Protégé Program (MPP) for another year. The DoD Mentor-Protégé Program was designed to foster partnerships between established defense contractors and smaller, emerging businesses, and to help smaller firms expand…
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Space Force and Starfish Space lay out their roadmap for satellite docking mission
An artist’s conception shows the Otter spacecraft in geostationary Earth orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) The U.S. Space Force says a Pentagon partnership with Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space will result in a “first-of-its-kind docking mission” aimed at adding to the maneuverability of national security assets on orbit. Starfish Space’s $37.5 million contract for a demonstration of…
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Inmarsat Maritime’s New NexusWave Managed Service Packages Viasat Ka-Band
Inmarsat Maritime has launched a new fully managed service that integrates its existing Global Xpress (GX) Ka-band network with Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) services, coastal LTE services, and an additional layer of satellite L-band. In the release announcement posted Monday, Inmarsat, which is now owned by satellite operator Viasat, said the service would be called “NexusWave”…