Author: starpathwp-production
-
Beyond Gravity Supplies Key Products for New European Navigation Satellites
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) will deliver key products like thermal insulation, the mechanisms for solar array wings and thruster pointing, the satellite structure, and the thermal insulation to the next generation of European navigation satellites. Two more European Galileo navigation satellites were launched into space and In parallel, work on the second generation of…
-
Vyoma and ESA Collaborate to Advance Technologies for Safer Space Operations
Vyoma and the European Space Agency (ESA) kicked off a 14-month project within the frame of ESA’s Competitiveness Element in the Space Safety Program. The goal is to evaluate the Vyoma Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre (CAM) recommendation service according to the strict requirements and quality standards of ESA. As part of the project, ESA is granting…
-
Maxar Intelligence’s WorldView Legion Satellites Performing Well After SpaceX Launch
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence, confirmed the first two WorldView Legion satellites are performing well after being launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket earlier from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Shortly after launch, the satellites deployed their solar arrays and began receiving and sending signals. These satellites will undergo commissioning,…
-
Kuva Space Secures €1.8M Contract to Join ESA’s Civil Security from Space Program
Kuva Space, a Finnish hyperspectral satellite and AI-powered insights company, has been awarded a €1.8M contract to participate in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Civil Security from Space (CSS) program to provide advanced hyperspectral situational awareness information for monitoring and mitigating civil security and crisis events. Within the three-year R&D program, Kuva Space will test…
-
BAE Systems Selected by NASA to Develop Air Quality Instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO Program
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to monitor air quality and provide information about the impact of air pollutants on Earth for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract…
-
L3Harris to Supply Payloads for Millennium Space Systems FOO Fighter Satellites
L3Harris will supply the infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) FOO Fighter satellites. L3Harris received a contract from prime contractor Millennium Space Systems, the company announced May 2. Under the deal, L3Harris will build eight infrared payloads. They will be manufactured in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The SDA awarded Millennium, a Boeing company, potential $414…
-
Historic journey from Chang’e 6 lifts off
A Long March 5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e 6 spacecraft, blasts off from its launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China’s Hainan province, May 3, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] The Chang’e 6, the world’s first attempt to retrieve substances from the moon’s far side, embarked on its historic journey on Friday afternoon from China’s…
-
Int’l guests call for more cooperation on space exploration
A guest from the European Space Agency (ESA) speaks at a workshop focusing on the international payloads carried by Chang’e-6 in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, May 3, 2024. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang) HAIKOU, May 3 (Xinhua) — International guests on Friday spoke highly of the extensive international cooperation on China’s Chang’e-6 mission and agreed to continue…
-
China’s Lunar Mission: Chang’e-6 probe geared for lunar far side mission
China will launch its Chang’e-6 probe to the moon in around two hours. The Chang’e-6 mission is tasked with collecting and returning samples from the moon’s far side, the first endeavor of its kind in history. The probe will lift off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China’s Hainan Province. Our reporter Sun…
-
Long March 5 blasts into the skies
A Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket blasted off at 5:27 pm today at the coastal Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, elevating the historic Chang’e 6 robotic mission up into skies. If everything goes according to plan, the 20-story-tall colossal rocket will fly for a short time before placing the 8.35-metric-ton Chang’e 6,…