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Terran Orbital Must Raise its Share Price to Continue Trading
Terran Orbital’s stock is at risk of being delisted if the company cannot raise its average share price over $1. The New York Stock Exchange sent the satellite manufacturer official notice on Oct. 20 that it is not in compliance with requirements regarding share price. The average closing price of its stock was less than…
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SES Space & Defense Awarded Low Earth Orbit IDIQ Contract from U.S. Department of Defense
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) satellite-based services (SBS). The IDIQ vehicle was awarded through the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) by the U.S. Space Force. Under the multi-award…
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Imagining the Future of Quantum Computing for Space
The year is 2075. Picture vast fleets of spacecraft, equipped with hyper-sensitive quantum accelerometers, gyroscopes, and clocks, navigating the solar system with unmatched precision. Swarms of tiny cubesats, outfitted with miniaturized quantum sensors, working in unison to image exoplanets, map asteroids, and detect elusive dark matter. Space telescopes harnessing quantum optics to peer back to…
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Soft-Fail Versus Conventional Redundancy
Redundancy, in the context of earth station electronics, refers to subsystems that are designed to limit service-interruption to a matter of milliseconds (the time it takes for a switch to move from position-one to position-two) following the catastrophic failure of a major component (a ‘component’ being any significant device, such as a power amplifier, RF…
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PLD Space Strengthens its Position at the Forefront of European Space Race
The analysis of the data collected by the Spanish company PLD Space after the launch of their MIURA 1 rocket shows that the mission has been “a complete success”. 100% of the main objectives have been achieved and all the technologies developed by the company have been validated in flight. This is a milestone that…
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UK Space Agency Awards £1.2 Million Grant to Horizon Technologies for Amber Phoenix Mission
At an event at the Army-Navy Club in London on 11 October, Horizon Technologies announced a £1.2 Million grant awarded by the UK Space Agency. This grant is part of a £2.8 Million total program called the Amber Phoenix Mission. The Phoenix Mission will see another Amber RF (Radio Frequency) Earth Observation payload launched into…
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Next-Generation Cybersecurity Defenses Coalesce for Space Systems
It’s no secret that advancements in AI are growing in parallel with the ambitions of foreign adversaries. Although not limited to state actors, the most obvious threats to Western cyber infrastructure are China and Russia – countries with antagonistic tendencies who happen to be launching inspector satellites into space. Any number of Cold War analogies…
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L3Harris Secures Contracts to Update DoD’s Space Domain Awareness Mission
L3Harris Technologies received two contracts worth up to $134 million to update portions of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) space domain awareness mission. The Ground Based Optical Sensor System (GBOSS) and Space Fence Sustainment (Option Year 4) contracts support the U.S. Space Force’s Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program. Under the GBOSS…
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ST Engineering iDirect CEO Don Claussen: Solving the Identity Question
In January this year, Don Claussen was appointed the new CEO of ST Engineering iDirect at a pivotal moment in the company’s history as it looks to capitalize on demands for ground segment technology as we enter this new, multi-orbit era. The company is one of the giants in this area. Its acquisition of leading…
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A Changing of the Guard
Change is afoot at the top of the satellite industry. For a number of the big operators, they have seen significant change in their management teams in recent years. At the time of going to press, SES announced that Adel Al-Saleh is the company’s new CEO, starting February next year. Both Eutelsat and Intelsat also…