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Orion Space Solutions Launches Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager Satellite for US DoD
Orion Space Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcfield, announced that its Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (RROCI) satellite was successfully launched on March 4. This state-of-the-art electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) weather system (EWS) spacecraft will provide high-resolution Earth observations and infrared data, allowing for accurate and up-to-date weather forecasting for the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space…
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Ursa Major’s Hadley Engine Powers Stratolaunch’s Testbed in Historic Hypersonic Test Flight
Ursa Major’s Hadley engine, a purpose-built engine to satisfy America’s commercial and national security space needs, flew for the first time powering Stratolaunch’s Talon-A1 (TA-1) testbed during a test over the Pacific Ocean. The test, which reached high supersonic speeds approaching Mach 5, marks the first step toward flight of a hypersonic vehicle developed by…
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After coming back from the dead, the world’s largest aircraft just flew a real payload
Built and flown by Stratolaunch, the massive Roc aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California on Saturday. The airplane flew out over the Pacific Ocean, where it deployed the Talon-A vehicle, which looks something like a mini space shuttle. This marked the first time this gargantuan airplane released an honest-to-goodness payload,…
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Firefly Aerospace Selects Three Educational Payloads as Part of DREAM Program
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced that it has selected three educational payloads to launch aboard Firefly’s Alpha rocket as early as 2025. As part of Firefly’s DREAM (Dedicated Research Education Accelerator Mission) program, Firefly is donating excess capacity on its Alpha launch vehicle to fly CubeSats from the University of Illinois, Auburn…
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L3Harris Selects Maxar Space Systems to Support its Tranche 2 Tracking Layer Program
Maxar Space Systems, a provider company of comprehensive space technologies, announced it has been selected by L3Harris Technologies for the design and production of eighteen Maxar 300 spacecraft platforms and associated support for its Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program with the Space Development Agency (SDA). This selection builds on Maxar Space Systems’ existing contract with…
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Kymeta Names Rick Bergman as its New CEO
Kymeta has named a new CEO, hiring Rick Bergman, formerly of AMD and Synaptics, to lead the company, effective April 1. The company’s co-CEOs, Doug Hutcheson and Walter Berger, are retiring at the end of March. Kymeta is a flat panel satellite antenna company, based in Redmond, Washington. Bergman joins Kymeta after serving as executive…
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Crew-7 and Endurance return to Earth after a six-month ISS stay
Crew Dragon Endurance and the Crew-7 astronauts returned to Earth after the handover to the Crew-8 astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). Spacecraft commander and US Marine Corps Lt. Col Jasmin Moghbeli, pilot and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen from Denmark, Japanese mission specialist Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA, and Russian mission specialist Konstantin Borisov of…
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Viasat and Rocket Lab Collaborate to Demonstrate Data Relay Services for LEO Satellites
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, announced it selected Rocket Lab USA, a leading launch and space systems company, to support Viasat’s hybrid space communications networks demonstrations by producing a spacecraft bus and providing mission operation support. The demonstrations will make evident Viasat’s portfolio of multi-band, space-based relay communication services in support…
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Airbus Ships Eutelsat 36D Satellite to Florida in Beluga Aircraft
Airbus has shipped the Eutelsat 36D Geostationary (GEO) communications satellite from Toulouse, France to Florida, on board the Airbus BelugaST plane. Its final stop is the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will be launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 later this month. Eutelsat 36D is based on the Eurostar Neo satellite…
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Es’hailSat Renews Sports Brodcasting Deal With beIN
Es’hailSat has renewed a deal with one of the largest sports and entertainment broadcasters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region – beIN MEDIA GROUP (beIN). The Qatari satellite operator will provide satellite capacity, uplink, connectivity and operational support on Es’hail-2 satellite located at the 26 degrees East hotspot covering the MENA region.…