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Booz Allen Makes Strategic Investment in Albedo to Develop VLEO Satellite Constellation
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Albedo, the first company to operate satellites in very low earth orbit (VLEO), which enables them to offer ultra-high resolution commercial imagery from space. This investment supports Albedo’s operational constellation deployment and is aligned with Booz…
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Viasat to Connect 150 More Lufthansa Group Aircraft With IFC
German airline Lufthansa Group has selected Viasat to equip more than 150 aircraft – across its Lufthansa, SWISS, and Austrian Airlines fleets – with the European Aviation Network (EAN) in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. The additional 150+ aircraft include Airbus A320s, A320neos and A220s fleet types. EAN combines S-band satellite coverage provided by Viasat with a…
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Daily Telescope: Shooting a laser into the sky from Antarctica
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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Voyager Space Appoints Marshall Smith as Chief Technology Officer
Voyager Space, one of the global leaders in space exploration, announced the appointment of Marshall Smith as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and as a member of Starlab Space’s Board of Directors. Smith, who previously served as Voyager Space’s Vice President of Exploration, will lead the technical strategy for Voyager’s enterprise and guide the…
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Orbit Fab and ClearSpace to Build an In-Space Refueling Service
Orbit Fab and ClearSpace announced a new partnership on Wednesday to create an in-space refueling service. Under an MoU, Orbit Fab and ClearSpace have agreed to leverage their complementary capabilities by creating a refueling service architecture that pairs an Orbit Fab fuel depot with a ClearSpace shuttle. Both are in-orbit servicing companies, working to offer…
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Japan’s First Moon Lander Equipped with Rad-Hard ICs from Renesas Touches Down
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that its radiation-hardened ICs were onboard the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft that successfully touched down on the Moon’s low latitude area on January 20, Japan Standard Time. Operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, SLIM launched onboard an H-IIA rocket from…
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NASA Announces Media Invitation for First Intuitive Machines and SpaceX Moon Launch
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all. The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander carrying NASA science and commercial…
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NASA urged Astrobotic not to send its hamstrung spacecraft toward the Moon
Astrobotic knew its first space mission would be rife with risks. After all, the company’s Peregrine spacecraft would attempt something never done before—landing a commercial spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. The most hazardous part of the mission, actually landing on the Moon, would happen more than a month after Peregrine’s launch. But the…
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Voyager Space Appoints Marshall Smith as CTO
Voyager Space appoints Marshall Smith as CTO to lead technical strategy and to guide the Starlab team through the design, development, and operations of the commercial space station. Smith previously served as the company’s vice president of Exploration. Smith has a deep background in space missions and spent 37 years at NASA where led systems…
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Albedo Raises $35M With Booz Allen Investment
Albedo raised a $35 million Series A-1 financing round announced on Tuesday, to launch the company’s first operational satellite to collect ultra-high resolution imagery. These funds bring Albedo’s total funding to $97 million. Standard Investments led the round and new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Cubit Capital, and Bill Perkins joined the round as well. The…