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Momentus’ Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle Successfully Completes Vibration Testing
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, announced that it has completed vibration testing of its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission no earlier than March 2024. The vibration testing conducted at Experior Laboratories…
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Private astronaut mission likely first to use SpaceX’s new crew access tower
The crew access arm is manuevered into place on the newly constructed tower at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. A crew access arm was lifted into place at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on Monday, as SpaceX races to ready the pad for its first Crew Dragon…
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EchoStar Reports Q3 Losses with Jupiter 3 Service Launch, Dish Network Merger on the Horizon
Satellite operator EchoStar, parent company of Hughes Network Systems, reported a tough 2023 fiscal third quarter (Q3), which included a 17% year-over-year decrease in consolidated revenue and a loss of 165,000 Hughes broadband subscribers. Echostar’s Q3 consolidated revenue dropped to $413.1 million, with the decrease driven by lower service revenues and fewer broadband customers. Equipment…
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Momentus to Deploy AVS’ LUR-1 Payload on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 Mission
U.S. space-as-a-service company Momentus secured a contract with Spanish space and science equipment company AVS for transportation and orbital delivery services in 2024. Under the contract, Momentus will integrate AVS’ LUR-1 microsatellite payload with SpaceX‘s Transporter-11 mission scheduled for launch in the Summer of 2024. LUR-1 is a mix of an in-orbit demonstration and commercial…
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Ariane 6 cost and delays bring European launch industry to a breaking point
European space officials will convene on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the future of space policy for the continent. The “Space Summit” gathering in Seville, Spain, will encompass several topics, including the future of launch. “Seville will be a very decisive moment for space in Europe,” said the director general of the European Space Agency,…
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Mynaric Awarded Additional Contract for its CONDOR Mk3 Terminals from a U.S. Customer
Mynaric, a provider of industrialized, cost-effective, and scalable laser communications products, announced that it entered into an additional definitive agreement with an undisclosed U.S.-based customer for the delivery of CONDOR Mk3 optical communication terminals. The order has a value of around $6 million, foresees payment milestones in Q4 2023 and 2024 and product deliveries in…
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Plays Crucial Role in Lucy’s Asteroid Flyby Mission
Thrusters supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, placed NASA’s Lucy spacecraft right on target for its successful November 1 flyby of Dinkinesh, a main-belt asteroid. This flyby was a critical dress rehearsal for Lucy’s primary mission of making the first-ever close-up observations of Trojan-belt asteroids starting in 2027. Lucy passed within 265 miles…
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Planet Labs Publishes Initial Ground Testing Results for NASA’s CSP Program
Planet Labs PBC, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced the successful completion of a significant technical milestone for its planned satellite-to-satellite communications links under the NASA Communications Services Project (CSP). Planet was selected as a subcontractor by SES Space & Defense and Telesat Government Solutions in late 2022 to demonstrate real-time…
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ONCD Assistant Director Says White House is Incentivizing Long-Term Space Cybersecurity Investments
RESTON, VIRGINIA — The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) is taking a particular look at cybersecurity for space systems, and seeking industry collaboration to inform policy in this area. Nicholas Leiserson, assistant national cyber director for Cyber Policy and Programs for ONCD gave a keynote address on Monday at CyberSatGov about…
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Elon Musk shares Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
Elon Musk shared on X, his social media site formally known as Twitter, that Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow. While Musk didn’t state any time period, if this means over the operational history of the product, that would be a big deal for the product’s success. Starlink is no longer in the red Musk…