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Spire Global Enters Deal with Financial Firm for Weather Forecasts
Spire Global has entered a multi-million-dollar deal with an unnamed financial firm to provide its High-Resolution Weather Forecast model. This model offers a six-day outlook powered by space data and develops an AI-powered model for long-range forecasting. Spire announced the deal on April 29. Through this deal, Spire will utilize its recently announced collaboration with…
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WISeSAT.Space Strengthens Ties with Swiss Armed Forces
WISeSAT.Space has deepened its relationship with the Swiss Armed Forces which will see the two collaborate to launch an enhanced WISeSat satellite later this year. WISeSAT.Space announced the strengthening of the strategic partnership on April 29. The upgraded WISeSAT.Space satellite will be equipped with SEALSQ semiconductor technology and WISeKey cryptographic keys to secure the new…
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Agile Space Industries to Provide Propulsion Capability for True Anomaly’s Orbital Vehicle
Agile Space Industries announced that it is providing advanced propulsion technology for a variant of True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicle (AOV). True Anomaly is a Denver-based technology company developing advanced hardware and software for the sustainable security of space. Space security and sustainability missions require True Anomaly’s Jackal AOV to maneuver in any orbit.…
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SpaceX Launches Two European Galileo Navigation Satellites
SpaceX launched the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission on Saturday evening, deploying two Galileo satellites. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the satellites to Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking off at 8:34 p.m. ET on April 27. The two new navigation satellites launched are Galileo GM25 and FM27. The…
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Launch Roundup: China returns to the moon, SpaceX keeps up high launch cadence
This week, China returns to the Moon with the Chang’e-6 mission, making the first-ever attempt to collect samples from a site on the far side, near the lunar South Pole. SpaceX keeps up its high cadence with the launch of the long-delayed WorldView Legion satellites from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at the Vandenberg Space…
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Gravitics Secures $1.7M Space Force Contract for Tactically Responsive Space Development
Gravitics announced it has been awarded a $1.7M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX. In partnership with Space Systems Command’s Space Safari Program Office, this effort will focus on a new mission area for Gravitics, Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS). Under this contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture…
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Gravitics Secures $1.7M Space Force Contract for Tactically Responsive Space Development
Gravitics announced it has been awarded a $1.7M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX. In partnership with Space Systems Command’s Space Safari Program Office, this effort will focus on a new mission area for Gravitics, Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS). Under this contract, Gravitics will leverage its commercial space station product architecture…
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EUSPA Takes Over the Latest Galileo Satellites After Successful SpaceX Launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2024, at 8:34 p.m. ET. This launch of two Galileo satellites into orbit marked another successful mission in the collaboration between the European Commission,…
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EUSPA Takes Over the Latest Galileo Satellites After Successful SpaceX Launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2024, at 8:34 p.m. ET. This launch of two Galileo satellites into orbit marked another successful mission in the collaboration between the European Commission,…
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NanoAvionics Satellite Bus Carrying NASA’s Solar Sail System Launched by Rocket Lab
Kongsberg NanoAvionics has announced that the 12U nanosatellite bus the smallsat manufacturer and mission integrator had built for the in-orbit demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System mission was successfully launched by Rocket Lab. The satellite was launched onboard Electron 47 Light from a launch site in Mahia, New Zealand. NASA’s technology demonstration aboard…