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SpaceX seeks a waiver to launch Starship “at least” nine times this year
As SpaceX nears its first Starship launch of 2024—possibly as soon as within three weeks—from its Starbase facility in South Texas, the company is pressing regulators to increase its cadence of flights. During a press availability this week, the administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration, Kelvin Coleman, said the agency is…
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Luxembourg Orders 2 New Ground Stations from SES and HITEC
The Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (DoD) procured two ground stations from SES and HITEC Luxembourg to support military satellite communications. SES and HITEC announced the award on Feb. 22. These two new ground stations will be installed at the Luxembourg Army’s Military Centre in Diekirch for Luxembourg’s GovSat-1 satellite services and for the Wideband Global…
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Rocket Report: Starliner launch preps; Indian rocket engine human-rated
Welcome to Edition 6.32 of the Rocket Report! I’m writing the report again this week as Eric Berger is in Washington, DC, to receive a well-earned honor, the 2024 Excellence in Commercial Space Journalism Award from the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Cape Canaveral is the world’s busiest spaceport, and this week, three leading US launch companies…
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Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek to Demonstrate 5G NTN-NR Rel.17 Connection at MWC 2024
Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek have teamed up to demonstrate a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) new radio (NR) connection based on the latest 3GPP Release 17 specifications. This technological advancement will be presented at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona using the state-of-the-art R&S CMX500 one-box signaling tester (OBT) from Rohde & Schwarz and…
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Seamless Air Alliance Looks to Integrate 3GPP 5G NTN Standards for Aviation
In-flight connectivity (IFC) standards organization the Seamless Air Alliance is looking to integrate 3GPP 5G NTN standards into the aviation industry, the group announced on Feb. 22. IFC systems are typically proprietary due to varying modem, antenna, and frequencies. The Alliance sees potential in 5G NTN standards to overcome the difficulty in integrating mobile satellite…
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Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket finally makes an appearance on the launch pad
Anyone who has tracked the development of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has been waiting for signs of progress from the usually secretive space company. On Wednesday, engineers rolled a full-scale New Glenn rocket, partially made up of flight hardware, to a launch pad in Florida for ground testing. The first New Glenn launch is…
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Thuraya Unveils the Skyphone D2D Android
Thuraya has unveiled a new consumer and business device – the Skyphone, a direct-to-device (D2D) Android smartphone with satellite voice and SMS capability. The phone will be on display during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Thuraya, a subsidiary of Yahsat, announced details of the new device on Feb. 22. Users will have smartphone with satellite…
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Thuraya Unveils the Skyphone D2D Android
Thuraya has unveiled a new consumer and business device – the Skyphone, a direct-to-device (D2D) Android smartphone with satellite voice and SMS capability. The phone will be on display during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Thuraya, a subsidiary of Yahsat, announced details of the new device on Feb. 22. Users will have smartphone with satellite…
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A little US company makes history by landing on the Moon
For the first time in more than half a century, a US-built spacecraft has made a soft landing on the Moon. There was high drama and plenty of intrigue on Thursday evening as Intuitive Machines attempted to land its Odysseus spacecraft in a small crater not all that far from the south pole of the…
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Terran Orbital’s CAPSTONE Nanosatellite Surpasses 450 Days of Lunar Operations
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global company in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced that its 12U nanosatellite built for Advanced Space’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission in support of NASA, has surpassed 450 days in orbit around the moon. Launched June 28, 2022, the space…