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Spire Posts Record Revenue, Loss Reduction in 2Q 2023 Just Before Planned Stock Split
Space-based data, analytics and space services provider Spire Global turned in one of its best fiscal quarter performances in 2Q 2023, reporting its strongest revenue haul and lowest operating loss since going public. In the results posted Thursday afternoon, the company reported a 37% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue to reach $26.5 million, which was…
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With Viasat-3 Status Still in Limbo, CEO Mark Dankberg Outlines Possible Responses to Total Loss Scenario
On what should have been a cheerful Q1 2024 financial earnings call to promote strong year-over-year revenue growth, Viasat Chairman and CEO Mark Dankberg spent most of his time explaining to investors why the company still can’t explain the anomaly it experienced with the reflector on its recently launched Viasat-3 satellite and why he’s not…
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EnduroSat Partners with Vyoma for SSA Mission
EnduroSat is teaming up with Vyoma to work on what is being billed as Europe’s first commercial mission for in-situ Space Situational Awareness (SSA). In an announcement of the collaboration published on Wednesday, Vyoma said it would use in-orbit optical telescopes to observe space objects and map the orbital environment at a high frequency, thus…
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Blue Canyon Technologies Introduces Largest Form Factor in its CubeSat Product Line
Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), RTX’s small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, continues to meet the demand for increased payload size, weight, and power (SWaP) by introducing the XB16 CubeSat, now the largest form factor in its CubeSat product line. The XB16 CubeSat offers 14U of payload volume with a canister-dependent option for an additional 12,000…
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22 Starlink satellites soar from Cape Canaveral
A Falcon 9 lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 11, 2023, carrying 22 Starlink satellites. Photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral early Friday morning carrying another 22 second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit. Liftoff from pad 40 occurred at 1:17…
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EnduroSat to Design and Build Vyoma’s Space Situational Awareness Satellite Constellation
EnduroSat and Vyoma have announced that they will be working together on Europe’s first commercial mission for in-situ space situational awareness (SSA). Vyoma will use in-orbit optical telescopes to observe space objects and map the orbital environment at a high frequency, thus providing SSA data and services with near-zero latency. EnduroSat will design and build…
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Germany’s DCUBED Ready to Demonstrate Reality of In-Space Manufacturing
A German new space company is set to show the benefits of in-space manufacturing in 2024. DCUBED aims to demonstrate in-space manufacturing as part of a demonstration mission early next year. The hardware manufacturer announced its plans Aug. 10. The company claims that this will be the first time ever that a product has been…
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Juno is bringing Jupiter’s moon Io into sharper focus
The last time a spacecraft got this close to Jupiter’s moon Io was more than 20 years ago, a blink of an eye on a typical geological timescale. Most planetary bodies in our Solar System wouldn’t exhibit so much change in a couple of decades. But Io is different, with volcanic eruptions regularly remaking parts…
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China sends disaster reduction satellite into space
China launched a new satellite for disaster reduction from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province on Wednesday. The satellite was launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 6:53 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit. Its primary users will be the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Ecology and…
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Satellite to aid disaster prevention, mitigation
A Long March 2C rocket carrying a satellite for disaster reduction blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China Aug 9, 2023. The satellite has entered the planned orbit. The launch was the 482nd mission by the Long March rocket series. [Photo/Xinhua] China deployed a radar satellite on Wednesday morning for disaster…