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Telesat Selects Aalyria’s Spacetime Software to Orchestrate the Lightspeed Constellation
Telesat signed a deal with Aalyria to deploy its Spacetime networking software to manage customer traffic for Telesat’s Lightspeed satellite constellation. The deal announced Tuesday is a 10+ year agreement. Financial terms were not disclosed. Telesat will use Aalyria’s Spacetime platform to route customer data through real-time analysis of millions of possible paths. The operator…
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SpaceX founding employee successfully moves from rockets to in-space propulsion
SpaceX launched its ninth “Transporter” mission on Saturday from California, carrying dozens of small- and medium-sized satellites into low-Earth orbit. The upside of these launches for customers is that they can rely on regular, low-cost access to space aboard the reliable Falcon 9 rocket. The downside is that the satellites are all released into a…
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SpaceX Launches O3b mPOWER Satellites and Rideshare Mission in a Busy Weekend
SpaceX launched two O3b mPOWER satellites for SES, and a 90-payload rideshare mission in a busy weekend of Falcon 9 missions. SES confirmed that the fifth and sixth O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched in a Sunday mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SES expects to begin commercial service with O3b mPOWER in the second quarter…
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Hamid Akhavan Named CEO of Dish Network, Before Merger Close
Hamid Akhavan is now CEO of Dish Network ahead of the EchoStar/Dish merger close, the company announced Monday. Akhavan is currently the CEO of EchoStar, and it was already in the works for him to lead the combined company when the merger ended. According to the Nov. 13 announcement, he will take the helm at…
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Daily Telescope: An amazing, colorful view of the Universe
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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We’ll know soon if Astra—the commercial space company—has a future
Over the last two years, Astra has become one of just a handful of the dozens of startup launch companies to actually put something into orbit. This is a measure of the technical acumen of Astra engineers, who set out to execute on the vision of the company’s co-founders, Chris Kemp and Adam London. During…
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GSOA Hopes to Drive Space Sustainability With New Code of Conduct
The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) hopes to play a key role and drive better behaviors in the area of space sustainability. GSOA released a Code of Conduct on Space Sustainability on Nov. 13 — calling on operators to implement responsible practices that mitigate the risk of in-orbit collision, minimize the threat of non-trackable debris,…
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SpaceX nails three launch weekend (ish) featuring two RTLS landings
CRS-29 arrives at ISS with fresh supplies Late Thursday night, early Friday morning UTC (which makes the headline work so I’m going with that), SpaceX launched an Cargo Dragon on a Falcon 9 rocket from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. This was SpaceX’s third CRS flight of the year and 29th overall (which you should…
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Satellite Policy and a Side of Space Movies With Henry Gola
What do satellite policy and space movies have in common? For starters, space debris often plays a key role in both. In this episode of On Orbit, we talk about regulation and space movies with Henry Gola, a partner in Wiley’s Telecom, Media & Technology practice. Wiley is a leading law firm for the satellite…
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First Dream Chaser Vehicle Ready for Final Testing
After years of work, Sierra Space’s first Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane is almost ready to fly. The vehicle’s next step is a trip to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio ahead of its first launch at the Kennedy Space Center currently scheduled for no earlier than March 2024. NSF was invited as part…