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Intelsat Debuts IntelsatOne IP, Internet Video Transport Solution
Intelsat is getting into the IP video space, debuting a new content distribution system that transports video via the internet. The system, IntelsatOne IP, is designed as a global network powered by a software platform. The company said it gives media customers a global solution with full network visibility and multi-destination routing across the company’s hybrid…
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Firefly Aerospace Launches VICTUS NOX Mission for the Space Force with 24-Hour Notice
Firefly Aerospace successfully launched the VICTUS NOX spacecraft in a special mission to demonstrate rapid launch capabilities to the U.S. Space Force. Firefly Aerospace and spacecraft manufacturer Millennium Space Systems have been in a standby phase since late August, which was the start of a six-month launch window in which the Space Force could call…
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NASA and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Roman Space Telescope’s Primary Instrument
Ball Aerospace and its partners at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have successfully completed the assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s camera system, called the Wide Field Instrument (WFI). The WFI will serve as the observatory’s primary instrument, providing the scientific community with detailed and expansive images of the cosmos. The instrument will…
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Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F and HOTBIRD 13G Satellites Successfully Enter into Service
Eutelsat Communications announced that its two high-power HOTBIRD 13F and HOTBIRD 13G satellites have entered into full commercial service. Located at Eutelsat’s 13° East flagship video neighbourhood, the satellites are reinforcing and enhancing the broadcast quality of around nine hundred television channels in more than 160 million homes across Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle…
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NASA JPL Imaging Spectrometer Handed off to Planet Labs for Tanager 1 Integration
Planet Labs PBC, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that an imaging spectrometer, developed by NASA JPL, has been handed off to its team for integration into its Tanager 1 hyperspectral satellite. This marks a major milestone for the Carbon Mapper Coalition, a public-private partnership announced in 2021, with the aim of…
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Rocket Lab Secures Contract from Leidos to Launch Four HASTE Missions
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a contract with Leidos to launch four HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) missions. The missions, scheduled across 2024 and 2025, will lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s…
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Rocket Report: New Shepard may fly soon; ULA changes mind on DoD competition
Welcome to Edition 6.11 of the Rocket Report! There’s a lot going on this week, including the completion of pre-flight tests by two companies developing reusable small launch vehicles. On the larger end of the spectrum, NASA is installing engines onto its second Space Launch System rocket, and SpaceX appears to be on track to…
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Soyuz MS-24 docks after first Russian crewed launch in a year
The Soyuz MS-24 mission launched from Site 31/6 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, flying a crew of three to the International Space Station (ISS). Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub as well as NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara launched on Friday, Sept. 15, at 15:44 UTC, with a docking to ISS just over three hours later…
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RS-25 engine installation into the Artemis II SLS Core Stage begins
Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies Company, is helping install four of its RS-25 liquid-propellant rocket engines in NASA’s second Space Launch System (SLS) core stage at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. The beginning of installation of the upgraded former Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) in Core Stage-2 at MAF on Sept.…
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A NASA astronaut will finally spend a full year in space
Eleven days before Christmas last year, a micrometeoroid struck a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. This ruptured the vehicle’s cooling system, creating a dramatic spray of coolant for hours into space before there was none left. Prior to this accidental strike, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio had been planning to come home by…