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UK Space Agency Lead Emphasizes National Priorities at Space-Comm Expo
Farnborough, United Kingdom — The United Kingdom is shaping up for one of the most important years in its history in space, with an expected launch this year. UK Space Agency (UKSA) CEO Dr. Paul Bate spoke on March 6 at Space-Comm Expo in Farnborough, and said that despite the tight fiscal environment, 2024 is…
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Terran Orbital Awarded $15.2 Million US Space Force Contract to Supply Satellite Platforms
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced it was awarded a $15.2 million contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms complete with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL. The contract, managed through Axient Corporation, will integrate payloads…
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Thales Adjusts Workforce to Respond to Commercial Satellite Market Headwinds
Thales Alenia Space reported a dip in demand for commercial telecommunication satellite orders in 2023, and is shifting part of its workforce to respond to the change. Thales announced the move in its 2023 full year results on March 5. Thales plans to redeploy 1,300 positions — 1,000 of which are located in France —…
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BlackSky Heralds Win of DoD Contract for Moving Target Analysis
BlackSky Technology said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery. “We are taking BlackSky’s industry-leading ability to monitor moving objects from space another step forward by…
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Thaicom Orders THAICOM-9 Satellite from Astranis
Thaicom taps Astranis to build THAICOM-9, an Astranis MicroGEO satellite. Thaicom, an Asian satellite and space tech company, selected Astranis to build a MicroGEO satellite to provide Ka-band services over Asia at 119.5 degrees East. The deal includes possible expansion of coverage to future satellites. The satellite will be launched in 2025. THAICOM-9 will be…
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SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight
Between Sunday night and Monday night, SpaceX teams in Texas, Florida, and California supervised three Falcon 9 rocket launches and completed a full dress rehearsal ahead of the next flight of the company’s giant Starship launch vehicle. This was a remarkable sequence of events, even for SpaceX, which has launched a mission at an average…
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ICEYE Launches Three New SAR Satellites Strengthening its Earth Observation Capabilities
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring and natural catastrophe solutions, successfully launched three additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites on March 4, 2024, including a 1200 MHz radar bandwidth in-orbit technology demonstrator that will enable 25 cm imaging. The satellites were integrated via launch integrator Exolaunch and successfully lifted off aboard SpaceX’s…
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MethaneSAT Enters Orbit Following SpaceX’s Launch of Groundbreaking Climate Mission
Just after 4:00 pm Pacific Time on March 3, 2024, MethaneSAT effectively detached from SpaceX Transporter-10 which carried the emissions monitor into space. The groundbreaking satellite is designed to help protect the Earth’s climate by accelerating reductions of a powerful greenhouse pollutant, focusing first on oil and gas operations, a major source of methane. Developed by a…
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Daily Telescope: A new Webb image reveals a cosmos full of galaxies
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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Nuclear Weapons in Space: Behind the Headlines With Brian Weeden
A few weeks ago, space security issues took center-stage in the news after reports of a nuclear satellite weapon. The White House confirmed that Russia is developing an anti-satellite (ASAT) capability, but said it’s not an active capability, and did not speak to any nuclear capabilities. This raised a lot of questions — What would…