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Blue Canyon Technologies Announces Successful Initial Contact with NASA’s Starling CubeSats
RTX’s small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies announced a successful launch and initial contact with CubeSats for the NASA Starling mission, a technology demonstration aimed at proving the success of cooperative groups of spacecraft operating in an autonomous, synchronous manner or “swarm.” BCT provided four 6U CubeSats to NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology…
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SpeQtral Partners with Kongsberg NanoAvionics and Mbryonics for SpeQtral-1 Mission
SpeQtral, a quantum communication technology company, is thrilled to unveil the collaboration with Kongsberg NanoAvionics and Mbryonics for the upcoming SpeQtral-1 mission. NanoAvionics has been chosen as the satellite platform provider, while Mbryonics will take on the crucial role of the satellite optical terminal provider. NanoAvionics, a prominent player in the new space industry, has…
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Viasat Wins Malaysia Airlines IFC Deal
Malaysia’s national air carrier, Malaysia Airlines, selected Viasat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution for its new Boeing 737-8 fleet. The companies announced the deal Thursday, and said the first factory installation is expected to be delivered later this month. The new fleet has anticipated flight routes across Malaysia and Southeast Asia and Malaysia Airlines will leverage…
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SDA Contracts SpaceX, Kuiper, and Aalyria for LEO Backhaul Study
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has contracted SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions, and Aalyria Technologies for a study on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) backhaul capability. The awards have a total value of $1.6 million. SDA announced the contracts in a LinkedIn post on Thursday, and said the studies will begin this week. The awards were made under…
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Rare photo shows inside of Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory
A look inside New Glenn’s factory Normally enshrouded in mystery, Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory, situated near the Kennedy Space Center, boasts a comprehensive complex equipped for the production of the New Glenn rocket, with the exceptions of the BE-4 and BE-3U engines. While it’s been established that manufacturing activities have been ongoing for some…
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Spire Names Leo Basola as New CFO
Spire Global named Leo Basola as its new chief financial officer. This appointment comes after earlier this year, the company’s CFO Thomas Krywe announced he would step down in September. The change comes as Spire will soon execute a stock split to regain compliance with its NYSE listing, as its shares have been trading at…
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Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
A major development effort in the design of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the waveform used in software defined radios (SDR) to provide terminal and manpack UHF communication radios. Due to the complexity of using Spectrally Adaptive Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (SA-WCDMA) in the MUOS environment, Satellite Link Emulator test systems were…
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OneWeb Demonstrates LEO Offerings to Humanitarian Organizations
OneWeb had demonstrated how its satellites and services can make a real impact in the humanitarian community. The company announced Aug. 17 that it took part in a successful demonstration of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite capabilities last month at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. OneWeb, successfully streamed…
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BAE Systems Sees Potential to Double Ball Aerospace Sales by 2030 With Acquisition
Britain’s BAE Systems on Thursday said it has agreed to a acquire Ball Corp.’s aerospace unit for $5.6 billion and highlighted the business is forecast to generate $2.2 billion in sales this year and could grow to $4 billion by 2030 due to strong demand in the space, missiles, and munitions markets. Ball Aerospace has nearly doubled…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Science Instrument for Lunar Surface Mapping
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is nearing completion now that its second and final cutting-edge science instrument has been added to the small spacecraft. Built by the University of Oxford in England and contributed by the UK Space Agency, the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) joins the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3), which was integrated with…