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Hello Space Inks Multi-Launch Deal with Alba Orbital to Expand PocketQube IoT Constellation
Alba Orbital, the world’s leading PocketQube launch services provider, announced the signing of a multi-launch contract with Hello Space Systems, building upon the success of Hello Space’s previous mission, ‘Istanbul’. This contract signifies a significant step forward in Hello Space’s commitment to advancing their Internet of Things (IoT) constellation. Following the successful launch of ‘Istanbul’…
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SES Sees Positive Signs from its Networks Business in 2023 Financial Results
SES passed the 2 billion euros mark for overall revenues in 2023. This was one of the highlights of its 2023 full year results, issued Feb. 29. SES achieved revenues of 2.03 billion euros ($2.2 billion), ahead of forecast, and slightly more than its overall revenues in 2022. Video revenues continue to fall as the…
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SES Sees Positive Signs from its Networks Business in 2023 Financial Results
SES passed the 2 billion euros mark for overall revenues in 2023. This was one of the highlights of its 2023 full year results, issued Feb. 29. SES achieved revenues of 2.03 billion euros ($2.2 billion), ahead of forecast, and slightly more than its overall revenues in 2022. Video revenues continue to fall as the…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX launches three Falcon 9 rockets in just over 20 hours
Three missions have now launched this week, starting with Crew-8, which is sending a new crew to the International Space Station for a six-month tour of duty after successfully launching from Florida. Starlink 6-41 from Cape Canaveral and Transporter 10 from Vandenberg Space Force Base have also flown, and the debut of a new small…
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NASA Signs Space Act Agreement with Nikon to Develop Camera for Artemis Lunar Mission
When NASA sends astronauts to the South Pole region of the Moon for the first time with its Artemis campaign, they will capture photos with a handheld camera to help advance scientific research and discovery for the benefit of all. NASA and Nikon recently signed a Space Act Agreement that outlines how they will work…
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Aitech’s Space Systems Integral to the Success of Intuitive Machines’ Moon Landing Mission
Aitech, one of the leading providers of rugged boards and system-level solutions for military, aerospace, and space applications, provided a complete avionics computer system to Intuitive Machines for the IM-1 Mission, that successfully landed on the Moon on February 22, 2024. The space-rated system developed by Aitech includes its SP0-S space-rated single board computer, S740…
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For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space
Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six months, giving a few Virgin Galactic customers a taste of spaceflight after waiting more than a decade. Finally, it appeared that Virgin Galactic…
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Rocket Report: Astra warns of “imminent” bankruptcy; Falcon Heavy launch delay
Welcome to Edition 6.33 of the Rocket Report! If you check the “next three launches” list below you’ll see that all three are for Falcon 9 rockets. That’s not the first time this has happened this year, nor will it likely be the last. It’s starting to look like SpaceX might actually come close to…
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Daily Telescope: Two nebulae in Orion for the price of one
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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Viasat Secures Contract from Northrop Grumman for USAF’s Space Internet Experiments
Viasat, a global company in satellite communications, has been awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program – better known by its nickname ‘Global Lightning.’ Northrop Grumman was awarded a four-year contract to test how…