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Rivada Signs UAE Connectivity Deal
Rivada Space Networks has made further inroads into the Middle East connectivity market. It is teaming up with Wiseband, an Emirati satellite services company, to bring secure connectivity solutions to the Middle East region. Rivada announced the deal on Jan. 24. Wiseband provides customized private satellite networking solutions which are designed to meet high-performance and…
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Daily Telescope: The Milky Way above one of my favorite places on Earth
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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The situation with Astrobotic’s lunar lander appears to be quite dire
On Monday morning, the new Vulcan rocket made a smashing debut, launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and performing flawlessly. After 50 minutes of flight, the rocket’s upper stage deployed its primary payload—the Peregrine lunar lander—into a Moon-bound trajectory. United Launch Alliance declared complete success with its new rocket. After the deployment…
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KVH Signs Distribution Partnership With Eutelsat OneWeb for LEO Connectivity
Maritime connectivity provider KVH Industries signed a distribution partnership with Eutelsat OneWeb for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity, the company announced Tuesday. KVH plans to offer LEO connectivity for commercial and leisure vessels. KVH said the LEO service will be sold as a standalone offering and as an integrated companion to its TracNet and TracPhone terminals,…
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“We are worried,” says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition
There is “no guarantee” France’s ArianeGroup will continue to be Europe’s rocket launch company of choice, according to the head of the European Space Agency, after ESA member states agreed to introduce more competition to the market. Josef Aschbacher, the agency’s director-general, told the Financial Times that the decision at its space summit in Seville…
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Viasat and Es’hailSat Sign Capacity Agreement in Middle East
Es’hailSat has won a new capacity deal with Viasat Energy Services, a business unit of Viasat. Viasat Energy Services is securing capacity on multiple transponders on the Es’hail-1 satellite located at the 25.5 degrees East hotspot and will also use teleport services from Es’hailSat’s facility in Doha, Qatar to provide VSAT services across Middle East…
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Rocket Lab Announces Space Situational Awareness Mission Launch for Spire and NorthStar
Rocket Lab USA, a global organization in launch services and space systems, announced it has set the launch window for its first mission of 2024. The ‘Four of a Kind’ mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than January 18 between 19:15-20:00 NZT (January 18 between 06:15-07:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in…
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America’s first lunar lander in a half-century won’t reach the Moon
A few hours after a successful liftoff on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic’s first commercial lunar lander ran into serious trouble. The robotic Peregrine lander, still in orbit around Earth, appears to have a propellant leak that will prevent it from reaching the Moon. There are 20 payloads aboard the Peregrine lunar lander, including…
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The Big Impact of Small Data
Thanks to Starlink and OneWeb, broadband from the sky dominates the view of the satellite data business for both the industry and the public. It’s all about hundreds of Mbps crossing from terminals to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to gateways and back again. That makes it easy to forget the power of small bursts of…
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United Launch Alliance’s Next Generation Vulcan Rocket Successfully Launched
United Launch Alliance marked the beginning of a new era of space capabilities with the successful launch of its next-generation Vulcan rocket on Jan. 8 at 2:18 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Vulcan rocket provides industry-leading capabilities to deliver any payload, at any time, to any orbit.…