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BAE Systems Selected to Build Instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO Constellation
BAE Systems was selected by NASA to develop the Atmospheric Composition instrument (ACX) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite constellation. BAE Systems announced the contract on May 1. GeoXO is a constellation of three satellites that will succeed NOAA’s current GEO Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R). The mission…
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Skylo Certifies Sony’s Altair ALT1250 Chipset for Operation with its Satellite Network
Skylo Technologies, the pioneer in satellite network connectivity, announced the certification of Sony Semiconductor Israel’s (Sony) ALT1250 chipset as part of the Skylo Certification Program. All devices incorporating the chipset will seamlessly support both cellular and native satellite connectivity without requiring the user to manually switch between the two. Connectivity plans and devices are available through…
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Maxar’s First 2 WorldView Legion Satellites Launch After Years of Delays
The first two satellites in Maxar’s long-awaited WorldView Legion constellation launched on Thursday afternoon, a significant milestone for the program after years of delays. SpaceX launched the satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force base in California. The mission lifted off at 11:37 a.m. PT. SpaceX confirmed deployment at 12:29 p.m. PT. …
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China launches to the far side of the Moon with sample return
In cooperation with France, China launched the Chang’e 6 mission. The launch happened at Friday, May 3, at 09:27 UTC, and the mission’s main goal is a regolith sample return from the surface of the Moon. The launch happened during very rainy conditions, which did not affect launch criteria. About the mission In overall structure,…
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Portal Space Systems Secures $3 Million Space Force Award to Launch Supernova Satellite Bus
Portal Space Systems, a Seattle-based space startup, announced its emergence from stealth with over $3 million in funding from the Department of Defense and Space Force to support the development and launch of its revolutionary Supernova satellite bus. Led by industry veteran Jeff Thornburg, architect of SpaceX’s Raptor engine, former head of Mechanical Engineering &…
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Arianespace Selected to Launch Second-Generation Galileo Satellites on Ariane 6
The European Commission and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) will entrust Arianespace with the launch of four new satellites for the Galileo navigation constellation. This order brings to five the total number of launches scheduled onboard Ariane 6 for Europe’s ultra-high performance Galileo satellite navigation system: the last three launches of…
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Satellogic Releases Open Dataset to Train AI Models
Satellite imagery company Satellogic released a large dataset of high-resolution imagery to train foundational Earth observation (EO) AI models. Satellogic announced Wednesday it released the full dataset on Hugging Face as part of EarthView. The dataset contains around 3 million 384 meter by 384 meter Satellogic images of unique locations spanning different land-use types, objects,…
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Daily Telescope: The Horsehead Nebula as we’ve never seen it before
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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Kevin Steen to Lead Eutelsat’s US Government Subsidiary
Eutelsat has appointed Kevin Steen as the new president and CEO of Eutelsat America Corp (EAC). Steen will also continue in his existing role as president and CEO of OneWeb Technologies (OWT). EAC and OWT completed a combination earlier this year and will go to market as a single EAC entity. Eutelsat announced the appointment,…