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Redwire Roll-Out Solar Arrays Successfully Deployed on Maxar’s Ovzon 3 Satellite
Redwire Corporation, a space infrastructure company for the next-generation space economy, announced today that two 5-kW Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) have successfully deployed and are operating nominally in geosynchronous orbit on the Maxar Space Systems-built Ovzon 3 communications satellite, which successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on January 3, 2024. Ovzon 3 represents…
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Cutting-Edge Advanced Channel Emulator Addresses the Evolving Needs of SATCOM Testing
dBm Corporation, a pioneering force in RF test equipment and components, has introduced the Advanced Channel Emulator (ACE9600) to address the evolving needs of satellite communications testing. The dBm Advanced Channel Emulator (ACE) is one of the most advanced non-terrestrial RF channel emulation solutions to date. Its capabilities encompass the emulation of critical impairments such…
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KVH Expands Multi-Orbit Hybrid Network with Eutelsat OneWeb Service
KVH Industries announced a distribution partnership agreement with LEO connectivity provider Eutelsat OneWeb. Under the terms of the deal, KVH will offer Eutelsat OneWeb’s LEO connectivity services supporting terminals for commercial and leisure vessels via Eutelsat OneWeb’s LEO satellite constellation. OneWeb’s network compromises more than 630 satellites in low earth orbit that can deliver enterprise-grade broadband connectivity…
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Muon Space Awarded SBIR Phase I Contract by AFWERX for Weather Intelligence
Muon Space, a LEO satellite constellation company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, has been selected by AFWERX for an SBIR Phase I contract focused on weather intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and operational mission planning. Muon Space will perform a feasibility study to determine the benefit of modifying its multispectral Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR)…
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Daily Telescope: A monster protostar in a distant nebula
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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Measat Partners with SpaceX to Sell Starlink Services
SpaceX has made a move in the Asian broadband market as it looks to bring Starlink services and hardware to people across the world. It will partner with Malaysian satellite operator Measat in a deal that will see Measat sell Starlink hardware and services in markets that Measat serves. Measat will be an official authorized reseller…
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Tom Choi Talks Finance, Consolidation, and AI for Satellite Sector
2023 was quite a year in the satellite industry. Huge deals like Viasat/Inmarsat, Eutelsat/OneWeb were completed. Intelsat and SES held merger talks without success, and Telesat announced funding and its plans for its Lightspeed network. And this was just among the legacy operators. With the likes of Amazon and SpaceX continuing to make a huge…
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Using Hubble, scientists observe weather on exoplanet
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected atmospheric variability on an exoplanet called WASP-121 b. The team analyzed observations taken with Hubble over several years and used computer simulations to demonstrate that the observed variations in the atmosphere could be explained by weather patterns. WASP-121 b, also known…
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Chang’e 6 to collect samples from far side of the moon
The Chang’e 6 spacecraft, China’s next robotic expedition to the moon, has been scheduled to land on the moon in the first half of this year and will be tasked with bringing back samples from the silver celestial body’s little-known far side, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said in a news…
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After its impressive first flight, here’s what’s next for the Vulcan rocket
Early Monday morning, the hefty Vulcan rocket streaked into orbit for the first time, nailing its performance targets and delivering a substantial success to United Launch Alliance on the vehicle’s first test flight. Unfortunately for the mission’s primary customer, Astrobotic, there was subsequently an issue with the lunar lander’s propulsion system. However, Astrobotic was quick…