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Spire Debuts Weather Forecast for Utilities and Commodity Traders
Spire Global is launching a new weather forecast model geared toward the energy and commodity markets. The High-Resolution Weather Forecast model announced Tuesday is designed to provide customizable weather forecasts to help energy traders, commodity traders, utilities, and grid operators anticipate the impact of weather on price dynamics, market trends and energy supply and demand.…
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The State of the Optical Communications Market
Laser communications terminals provide increased data rates, which means they are able to send and receive more information in a single transmission compared to systems based on radio frequency. Future technologies will target scalability and the establishment of a mesh network of interoperable, multi-domain, multi-orbit laser communications. Laser communications have come a long way since…
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XArc and Astroport Receive $1.3 Million in Multiple NASA SBIR/STTR Awards for 2023
Astroport Space Technologies and its parent organization Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) received a combined $1.3M in NASA SBIR/STTR awards for the development of extreme environment landing pad technologies. The SBIR/STTR Phase 1 and Phase 2 awards will focus on the development of lunar construction and operations technologies needed for lunar surface landing/launch pads (LLPs) in…
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Eyes in the Sky: How Satellite Data Transforms Economic Modeling
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently unveiled its PortWatch platform, a groundbreaking application resulting from a collaborative effort with partners such as the World Bank, Oxford University, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and ESRI, which offers the ArcGIS geospatial data analysis software. PortWatch harnesses the power of satellite imagery and satellite enabled Automatic…
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Millennium Space Systems Completes CDR for Missile Track Custody Space Vehicle
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company, has achieved the critical design review (CDR) for its Missile Track Custody (MTC) space vehicle. Millennium announced the CDR on Tuesday, less than a year after it received authorization to proceed. The MTC program is part of Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Sensing Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, Missile…
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Lockheed Martin’s ESA Payload Demonstrator To Showcase Faster On-Orbit Sensor Calibration
Lockheed Martin will soon launch a unique wideband Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) payload demonstrator to show the company’s investment in advanced technology to perform missions faster once in orbit. Based on an innovative, proprietary design, Lockheed Martin expects to calibrate this new ESA sensor in a fraction of the time it takes to operationalize traditional…
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Axiom Space Chooses Amazon Web Services for its Terrestrial IT Infrastructure
Axiom Space, one of the leaders in commercial human spaceflight and architect of the world’s first commercial space station, announced that it is going all-in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in support of its terrestrial information technology (IT) infrastructure. By migrating its enterprise IT to AWS, Axiom Space looks to provide its engineers, ground operations,…
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10 Tech Trends That Will Impact the Satellite Industry in 2024
As we enter 2024, the opportunities for satellite technology development seem as vast and unending as outer space itself. Certain technology trends remain powerful drivers across the space domain year over year, such as artificial intelligence, launch capacity, and lower size, weight, and power (SWaP) initiatives. Advancements in these areas are opening up opportunities for…
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Aerojet Rocketdyne, ULA mark 60th anniversary of RL10 rocket engine
A Dual Engine Centaur upper stage for Atlas V nears completion at the factory in Decatur, Alabama. The RL10 engine marked 60 years of flight on Nov. 27, 2023. Image: United Launch Alliance A rocket engine with a long pedigree marked a big milestone on Monday. It’s 60 years since the hydrogen-fueled RL10 engine debuted…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights new connections to AWS and partners in Japan
A Project Kuiper satellite terminal is set up with a wind farm in the background. (Amazon Photo) As Amazon gears up to build and launch thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper constellation, it’s talking up the space-based broadband network’s potential to enable new options for managing data traffic with Amazon Web Services — including…