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Terran Orbital Secures Lockheed Martin Subcontract for SDA’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced being selected by Lockheed Martin to produce 18 satellite buses for their recent Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 2 (T2) Tracking Layer contract. Lockheed Martin will provide the SDA with 16 wide field-of-view missile warning/missile tracking…
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NASA’s Latest Mobile Launcher Stacks Up for Upcoming Artemis Missions
The foundation is set at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launching crewed missions aboard the agency’s larger and more powerful SLS (Space Launch System) Block 1B rocket in support of Artemis IV and future missions. On May 9, 2024, teams with NASA’s EGS (Exploration Ground Systems) Program and contractor Bechtel National transferred the…
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Loft Orbital Selected by Viasat for Real-Time Space Relay Service Demonstration
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, announced it selected Loft Orbital as a partner for its Real-Time Space Relay (RTSR) service. The demonstration is part of Viasat’s work in support of a $53 million award under NASA’s Communications Services Project, which evaluates commercial satellite communications services and technologies to support NASA’s near-Earth communications…
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Marble Imaging and Reflex Aerospace to Deploy EO Satellite Network
Marble Imaging is teaming up with Reflex Aerospace to build a new Earth observation (EO) constellation. Marble Imaging, based in Bremen, Germany, is planning a constellation of up to 200 small satellites. The initial satellite will be built for Marble Imaging by Reflex Aerospace with the funding coming via the German Space Agency at DLR. …
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Life360 Tracking Network to Use Hubble’s Satellite Bluetooth Technology
The family location-sharing app Life360 is interested in Bluetooth from space. Life360 announced a non-binding letter of intent on Monday with Hubble to become the exclusive consumer application of its satellite Bluetooth technology. Hubble is a startup pursuing Bluetooth technology from space. The company recently announced its prototype satellite successfully received a Bluetooth signal. Hubble…
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Redwire is Developing a Very Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Phantom
Redwire Space is developing a Very Low-Earth Orbit (VLEO) spacecraft platform called Phantom, the company announced Monday. Phantom is being developed at Redwire’s facility in Belgium and is designed to carry out a wide array of intelligence, Earth science, and communications missions. Redwire said it is working with Thales Alenia Space to advance Phantom’s design…
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Exolaunch Signs Agreement with Creotech to Deploy Poland’s Largest-Ever Satellite
Exolaunch, one of the global leaders in launch mission management, integration, and satellite deployment services, announced a new partnership with Creotech Instruments, a publicly traded leading satellite and space components manufacturer based in Poland. After winning the public tender, Exolaunch will manage the upcoming launch and deployment services for Creotech’s “EagleEye” satellite, Poland’s first and…
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Swissto12 Supplies Northrop Grumman with RF products for GEOStar-3 Satellite
Swissto12 has delivered three RF Antenna Feed Chains to Northrop Grumman for a GEOStar-3 satellite, after completing a qualification program. Swissto12 announced the milestone on May 13. GEOStar-3 is Northrop Grumman’s Geostationary (GEO) satellite bus, the bus used in C-band replacement satellites for Intelsat and SES and the Mission Extension Vehcile (MEV) servicing spacecraft. Swissto12…
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UK Space Agency Awards £1.8 Million to British Organizations to Boost Tech Innovations
New funding from the UK Space Agency is backing technologies to help satellites measure our changing shorelines, estimate levels of biomass, predict weather forecasting and manufacture medicines in space. The £1.8 million injection, divided across nine individual projects, rounds off the final phase of the Agency’s Enabling Technologies Programme (ETP), designed to give a boost…