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Gilat Successfully Acquires DataPath, Advancing Presence in Defense Communications Market
Gilat Satellite Networks, one of the worldwide leaders in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, announced that it has completed the acquisition of DataPath, a market leader in trusted communications for the US DoD Military and Government sectors. The transaction was approved by the Gilat Board of Directors and by DataPath’s Board of Directors and…
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This Week in Launches: Post Starship lull and Thanksgiving day engine test
This week’s launches November 21 SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink Group 6-29, 11:00 P.M. ET SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida November 23 ExPace Kuaizhou 1 Unknown Payload, 5:00 A.M. ET Mobile Launcher Pad, Xichange Satellite Launch Center, China VKS RF Soyuz 2.1a Bars-M n°5, 3:00 P.M. ET Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia Join our Discord Server:…
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Yes, Starship’s second launch was a success! Here’s why
While this article focuses on the success of Starship Flight 2, we went over everything that went wrong here. Stage 0 in great condition The orbital launch mount at Starbase, or as SpaceX calls “Stage 0,” is an extremely important part of Starship’s planned rapid reusability. Ground equipment has always been an important part of…
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ESA’s Rapidly Developed Arctic Weather Satellite Enters Testing Phase
As its name suggests, the new Arctic Weather Satellite mission is expected to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic – a region that currently lacks data for accurate short-term forecasts. Today, satellites, both those in geostationary orbit and in polar orbit, provide a wealth of information that meteorologists use routinely to forecast the weather. However,…
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MDA Secures $180 Million Contract for New NGSO Digital Satellite Constellation
MDA, a provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, announced that it has received an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) contract from an undisclosed customer to start work on a new Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO)* satellite constellation. The ATP, valued at approximately $180 million, is to immediately commence engineering and programmatic…
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Daily Telescope: Spying a double cluster of supergiant stars
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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Tototheo Maritime Hits 1,000 Fleet Xpress Installs
Satellite communications and technologies specialist Tototheo Maritime has passed the 1,000-ship mark in Fleet Xpress terminal installations. Inmarsat, which offers Fleet Xpress, announced the milestone on Nov. 20. Inmarsat is now fully part of Viasat, and maritime remains a key target market for the company. The 1,000 terminal installations have included container and general cargo…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper Protoflight Mission Achieves 100% Success Rate
Amazon started Project Kuiper with the goal of providing fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Within 30 days of sending two prototype satellites into space, Project Kuiper has achieved a 100% success rate for its Protoflight mission, validating key technologies that underpin the network and moving the program another step…
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NASA’s DSOC Experiment Aboard Psyche Transmits First Laser Encoded Test Data
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This is the farthest-ever demonstration…
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Advanced Space’s CAPSTONE Mission Completes One Year of Operation at the Moon
Advanced Space, a space tech solutions company, announced that their Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has successfully operated on-orbit around the Moon for a full year. This milestone puts the company in an elite category logging over 365 days of continuous operations in the cislunar environment. As the first…