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NASA awards funds to study deep-space interferometer and other far-out ideas
This collage highlights several concepts proposed by 2024 NIAC Phase I awardees, including miniaturized interstellar spacecraft, a Venus glider, a water detoxifier for Mars, a solar-system-scale interferometer and an electric aircraft flying above Mars. (NASA Illustration) A proposal to build a far-flung set of radio antennas to measure the cosmos is one of 13 far-out…
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SpaceX Launches First Starlink Satellites for Direct to Cell Service with T-Mobile
T-Mobile announced that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched the first set of Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities, following the live streamed webcast. This is a significant milestone following last year’s joint announcement of the Coverage Above and Beyond initiative, which aims to bring connectivity nearly everywhere in the U.S. for Un-carrier customers —…
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Sidus Space Granted Remote Sensing License by NOAA to Provide Imaging Services to Clients
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service company announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has granted Sidus a Tier 1 remote sensing license to include Panchromatic (PAN) and Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) imaging capabilities. This approval includes Sidus’ upcoming LizzieSat scheduled for launch in March 2024, as well as subsequent LizzieSat satellites. Through…
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Astrobotic Utilizes Ansys’ Simulation Solutions to Prepare for Historic Lunar Mission
Leveraging Ansys multiphysics and digital mission engineering (DME) solutions, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is poised to make one of the first Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) deliveries to the Moon. Scheduled to launch in early January and land in late February, Peregrine will ferry 20 payloads from seven countries and will help NASA explore the…
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How WRC-23 Set the Path for a Framework for the Future of Space Communications
With the 2023 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) behind us it is time to look ahead to WRC-27. And what a road it will be to get there. WRC-23 made progress on many notable achievements including ensuring we have access to the spectrum we need for 5G terrestrial and non-terrestrial services, providing increased flexibility for operators,…
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Daily Telescope: A view of our star as Earth reaches perihelion
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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SpaceX’s Launches Ovzon-3, Sweden’s First Privately Funded GEO Satellite
SpaceX launched the Ovzon 3 satellite for Swedish satellite operator Ovzon on Wednesday evening, after many delays. Ovzon 3 is the first privately funded and developed Swedish Geostationary Orbit (GEO) communications satellite, and it will support Ovzon’s satcom-as-a-service solutions. SpaceX launched the satellite on Jan. 3 in a Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral Space…
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NGA Awards Maxar Intelligence a Task Order for Precision3D Data
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded Maxar Intelligence a task order to provide the agency with a Precision3D data bundle covering an area within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility. Maxar Intelligence announced the award on Jan. 4 The task order is worth about $7.8 million and covers a time frame of less than one year, a…
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Launch Roundup: Vulcan’s maiden flight, SpaceX continues launching Starlink
The week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10 saw the long-awaited maiden flight of the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket carrying the Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Lunar Lander to the Moon. Two Chinese rockets have launched: one Kuaizhou 1A, and the Einstein Probe X-ray satellite, launched on Jan 9. from Xichang, China on board a…
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Launch Roundup: Vulcan’s maiden flight, SpaceX continues launching Starlink
The week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10 saw the long-awaited maiden flight of the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket carrying the Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Lunar Lander to the Moon. Two Chinese rockets have launched: one Kuaizhou 1A, and the Einstein Probe X-ray satellite, launched on Jan 9. from Xichang, China on board a…