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Sidus Space Publishes New U.S. Patent Application for LizzieSat Platform
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space, and Data-as-a-Service company, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published U.S. Patent Application No. 2023/0406548-A1 (the ‘548 patent application). The ‘548 patent application enhances the robust IP portfolio of Sidus by seeking additional patent protection on even more functionality of the LizzieSat Modular Satellite Platform System. We…
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Viasat to Initiate Service on ViaSat-3 Satellite, Starts Receiving Insurance Money
Viasat plans to initiate service soon with the first ViaSat-3 satellite, which has just a fraction of its planned capacity due to an issue with an antenna on board. The operator announced in its Feb. 6 quarterly results that it plans to start commercial in-flight connectivity service on the satellite in the quarter of its…
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Slingshot Aerospace Selects Former Microsoft and Dell Executive, Tim Solms as New CEO
Slingshot Aerospace announced Feb 7. it is appointing Tim Solms, former executive at Dun & Bradstreet, Microsoft, Dell and VMware, as their new CEO. Solms will also have a seat on the Slingshot board of directors. Solms previously headed Dun & Bradstreet’s Public Sector business as the executive vice president. Prior to that he was…
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Environmentalist to get their day in court as SpaceX works to expand their Starbase facility
Environmentalist want to stop the beach closures A group of environmentalist have won an appeal in the Texas courts to make its case against road closures to Boca Chia Beach for SpaceX’s Starship rocket activities. The groups believe the law that was passed allowing these sort of closures is unconstitutional. If you didn’t know, the…
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Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 Mission Lunar Lander Ready for Historic Launch
Intuitive Machines, one of the leading space exploration, infrastructure, and services companies, announced its IM-1 mission Nova-C class lunar lander completed all integration milestones and is safely encapsulated within SpaceX’s payload fairing in preparation for launch. In coordination with SpaceX, the launch of the Company’s IM-1 mission is targeted for a multi-day launch window that…
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Geespace Successfully Launches Eleven LEO Satellites for Future Mobility Constellation
China’s Geespace conducted its second successful satellite launch on 3rd February, sending eleven satellites into low Earth orbit, finishing the deployment of the second orbital plane of the ambitious Geely Future Mobility Constellation. Geely Future Mobility Constellation represents the world’s inaugural commercial initiative to integrate communication, navigation, and remote sensing within a single satellite network.…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9’s 300th Flight and SpaceX to launch lunar lander
On the week of the sixth anniversary of the first flight of Falcon Heavy, SpaceX launched four separate Falcon 9 missions. Meanwhile, Roscosmos resupplied the International Space Station (ISS) with Progress MS-26 launching on Soyuz. Early Thursday morning, Falcon 9 launched from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) taking NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud,…
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Exolaunch Signs Contract with ESA for Launch and Deployment of Arctic Weather Satellite
Exolaunch — the premier global provider of launch mission management, integration, and deployment services for the New Space industry – won a public tender and signed its first launch contract with the European Space Agency for launch services arrangement, integration, and deployment of the pioneering Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS). The contract highlights Exolaunch’s commitment to…
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Daily Telescope: A stunning new image of Io reveals a volcanic plume
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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Space System Command Awards Lockheed Martin $66M Fixed Contract to Design 2 MUOS Satellites
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $66 million for risk reduction activities and early design work for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Service Life Extension (SLE) program. Lockheed announced the contract on Feb. 2. Lockheed Martin built and operates the SSC’s entire MUOS constellation of…