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NASA’s Peregrine Lunar Lander Mission Yields Valuable Data Despite Missing Moon
NASA’s recent mission to send payloads on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander, launched in January on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, faced a setback when a propellant leak prevented the spacecraft from attempting a lunar landing. Despite this, valuable data was still collected from the mission. According to Dan Hendrickson, vice president of Astrobotic, many of…
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Redwire Reports Strong Revenue Growth, Plans Expansion in Space Market
Redwire, a space infrastructure company, is aiming for continued growth and profitability by securing larger contracts for its components and advancing its satellite design capabilities. In its financial results for 2023, Redwire reported a revenue of $243.8 million, marking a significant 51.9% increase over the previous year. Even excluding the contribution from QinetiQ Space NV,…
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Rocket carrying China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite transported to launchpad
A Long March-8 rocket carrying China’s Queqiao-2 (Magpie Bridge-2) relay satellite has been vertically transported to its launchpad at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Sunday. The Queqiao-2 relay satellite and the Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket completed various preparations, such as…
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Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1
It’s been four months since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sent an intelligible signal back to Earth, and the problem has puzzled engineers tasked with supervising the probe exploring interstellar space. But there’s a renewed optimism among the Voyager ground team based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. On March 1, engineers sent a command…
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Sierra Space tests upcoming in-space habitat as other commercial space stations continue development
On Jan. 21, Sierra Space performed an “ultimate burst pressure test” on a full-scale model of its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat — an inflatable space station module. The launcher-agnostic habitat is designed to be launched encapsulated within any four-meter fairing, docked to a space station in orbit, and then inflated to a 9-meter…
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Satcoms Innovation Group Partners with ETL Systems to Host 2024 European Workshop
The Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG) has announced that its European Workshop will take place at ETL Systems in Herefordshire, UK. Taking place on the 26th and 27th of June, the workshop will bring together operators, manufacturers, and vendors in order to discuss the technical aspects of the latest changes within the satcom landscape. SIG promotes…
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After Thursday’s flight, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built
One of the best things about spaceflight is its power to dazzle us. I will never forget seeing the first images of Pluto and its moon Charon for the first time, with their vibrant colors and exotic geology. A world with super-sized ice volcanoes? Oh my. Similarly affecting were up-close views of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, revealed…
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VPT Releases New 1600W, GaN-based SGRBX DC-DC Converter for Space Applications
VPT announced the release of the first-ever configurable box solution featuring state-of-the-art GaN technology: the SGRBX. Housing up to four award-winning SGRB DC-DC converter slices within its framework, the SGRBX delivers up to 1600 watts of output power. Utilizing the SGRB’s advanced fixed frequency and reduced voltage switching topology, the SGRBX has extremely low input…