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Launch Roundup: scrubs deny SpaceX its 100 Falcon launch goal; look to end the year with a 300th mission milestone
This week nearly saw two secret spaceplanes launched within days of each other. After ground systems concerns and then weather delays, the US Department of Defense’s X-37B vehicle had its OTV-7 launch on the Falcon Heavy USSF-52 mission scrubbed from its initial planned attempt on Dec. 11. Starlink Group 6-34 was also scrubbed that same…
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Hughes Rolls Out New Internet Plans With Jupiter 3 Capacity
Rendition of EchoStar24/Jupiter 3 satellite. Photo: SSL. Hughes Network Systems has introduced new high-speed satellite internet plans using capacity from its recently launched Jupiter-3 satellite. The company now offers new plans with speeds up to 100 Mbps, and all plans include unlimited data. Hughes also has the Hughes Fusion plan which combines satellite and wireless…
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Hughes Rolls Out New Internet Plans With Jupiter 3 Capacity
Rendition of EchoStar24/Jupiter 3 satellite. Photo: SSL. Hughes Network Systems has introduced new high-speed satellite internet plans using capacity from its recently launched Jupiter-3 satellite. The company now offers new plans with speeds up to 100 Mbps, and all plans include unlimited data. Hughes also has the Hughes Fusion plan which combines satellite and wireless…
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Launch success brings Blue Origin closer to resuming crewed suborbital space trips
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down at the end of an uncrewed flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today sent its New Shepard rocket ship on its first suborbital trip to space in 15 months — and although no people were aboard the craft this time, the research mission boosted confidence…
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Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky
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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Rocket Lab Sets New Annual Launch Record with Successful Launch of SAR Satellite for iQPS
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its 42nd Electron rocket and deployed a satellite for Japan-based Earth imaging company the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). The mission was Rocket Lab’s 10th Electron launch for the year, surpassing the Company’s previous annual record of nine launches…
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Sidus Space to Execute Reverse Stock Split to Raise Share Price
Sidus Space will execute a reverse stock split on Tuesday to raise its share price, after receiving approval from its stockholders. The company will reverse split its stock so that every 100 shares of issued and outstanding common stock will be exchanged for 1 share of common stock. This is intended to raise the company’s…
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HawkEye 360 to Acquire Aurora Insight Assets from Maxar Intelligence
HawkEye 360 is acquiring two radio frequency (RF) satellites from Maxar Intelligence that were part of Aurora Insight before Maxar acquired the company. HawkEye announced Monday it is acquiring the RF Solutions business from Maxar Intelligence, which includes two existing RF satellites, RF scanning intellectual property, a multi-year RF database, and personnel. Maxar Intelligence previously…
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Lynk Global to Go Public With A-Rod’s Slam SPAC
Satellite startup Lynk Global, which has proven satellite-to-cell technology, plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Alex Rodriguez’s SPAC, Slam Corp. Lynk and Slam Corp. announced Monday they have signed a non-binding letter of intent for a potential business combination. They intend to finalize the business combination in the…
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2023 Year in Review Podcast With Via Satellite Editors
2023 was a year of massive news in the satellite industry. From the Viasat/Inmarsat and Eutelsat/OneWeb mergers, to new leaders at top operators, and major constellation updates from Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and Telesat Lightspeed, Via Satellite had no shortage of things to cover this year. In this episode of On Orbit, Via Satellite’s editors…