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Ovzon Wins First Spanish Renewal
Ovzon has received its first Spanish renewal for its Satcom-as-a-Service. Its Spanish partner Aicox has renewed for a further six months, and the extension will mainly be delivered during the first half of this year. Ovzon announced the deal April 12. Ovzon’s Satcom-as-a-Service Plus solution is a fully integrated solution that includes satellite bandwidth, Ovzon…
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Ovzon Wins First Spanish Renewal
Ovzon has received its first Spanish renewal for its Satcom-as-a-Service. Its Spanish partner Aicox has renewed for a further six months, and the extension will mainly be delivered during the first half of this year. Ovzon announced the deal April 12. Ovzon’s Satcom-as-a-Service Plus solution is a fully integrated solution that includes satellite bandwidth, Ovzon…
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China completes new round of tests on reusable liquid rocket engine
China has been actively developing space propulsion technology in recent years, and the latest achievement is successful ground ignition tests of a 130-tonne liquid oxygen and kerosene engine that will power the country’s reusable carrier rockets. Developed by an institute under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the new reusable engine was ignited twice…
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ST Engineering iDirect CEO Don Claussen Unpacks the Vision for Intuition
At SATELLITE 2024, ST Engineering iDirect unveiled it’s much anticipated next-generation satellite ground system. As expected, it’s engineered to be cloud-enabled, with virtualized infrastructure, supporting multi orbit networks, designed for network orchestration, and built on open standards. But what is truly novel about the new platform is actually captured in its name: Intuition. In this…
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SpaceX’s most-flown reusable rocket launches for the 20th time
For the first time, SpaceX launched one of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters for a 20th time Friday night on a flight to deliver 23 more Starlink Internet satellites to orbit. This milestone mission lifted off at 9:40 pm EDT Friday (01:40 UTC Saturday) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force…
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Viasat Opens New International Headquarters in London
Satellite operator Viasat announced Thursday that it opened its new International Business Headquarters in London following its acquisition of UK-based Inmarsat last year. The Viasat London office will be the home for the company’s integrated teams with a strong focus on technology innovation and scaling execution to support its UK and global customers across maritime,…
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Commercial and Military Leaders Wrestle With Issues Around Commercial Protection
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Military space domain operators are working more closely with the commercial satellite industry to not only exchange vital operational information, but also to forge ahead integrating with them, and to deal with issues around protecting commercial assets. This comes at a time when nefarious satellite interruption activities have ticked up across the board,…
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Firefly Aerospace Partners with Klepsydra to Demonstrate Edge Computing in Space
Firefly Aerospace an end-to-end space transportation company, announced a new agreement to host the Klepsydra Artificial Intelligence (AI) application on Firefly’s Elytra vehicle that will launch aboard Alpha later this year. By serving as an edge computing platform in space, Elytra is equipped to support a variety of hosted software applications with real-time data processing…
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Space Systems Command Selects Rocket Lab to Build and Launch Spacecraft for TacRS Mission
Rocket Lab USA announced that it has been selected for a $32M U.S.Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) contract to deliver the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission. The mission will see Rocket Lab design, build, launch, and operate a rendezvous proximity operation (RPO) capable spacecraft. The mission was contracted under Rocket Lab National…