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Maxar Previews New Geospatial Platform
Maxar Technologies has a new Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP) now available as an initial release, for access to Earth observation intelligence. The company said MGP was designed to simplify discovery, purchasing and integration for geospatial data and analytics. Maxar announced Monday during the Esri User Conference that select customers can access MGP now, and it…
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We can leave the Solar System, but arriving anywhere is not happening soon
On August 25th, 2012, humanity became an interstellar species. There was no fanfare or galactic welcome party as a humble robotic probe, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, crossed an invisible threshold. It slipped between the region dominated by the physics of the Sun and into the thin milieu of plasma between the stars. Whatever fate befalls…
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Orion Spacecraft’s Heat Shield Installed for NASA’s Artemis II Mission
The team at NASA has successfully installed the heat shield for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft located inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 16.5-foot-wide heat shield is one of the most important systems on the Orion spacecraft, ensuring the safe return of…
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Redwire’s Critical Navigation Technology to Support NASA’s Dragonfly Mission
Redwire sun sensor technology is continuing to advance science and discovery onboard planetary missions to deepen humanity’s understanding of our solar system. Through a contract from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Redwire will supply critical navigation technology for NASA’s groundbreaking Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The Digital Sun Sensor system onboard…
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Rivada Signs MoU With IEC Telecom
Rivada Space Networks and has signed an MoU with satellite service provider IEC Telecom to work together on land and maritime communications. According to a Monday announcement, IEC Telecom plans to use Rivada’s future OuterNET satellite service for the humanitarian and maritime sectors. OuterNET is Rivada’s planned network of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in a…
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Astronomers solve mystery of how a mirror-like planet formed so close to its star
It has been about three decades since the first confirmed exoplanet was discovered. In the following 30 years, using a variety of telescopes and instruments on the ground and in space, astronomers have cataloged more than 5,000 planets around other stars. As part of this process of scientific discovery, astronomers have confirmed that our Milky…
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SpaceX uses Twitter to provide additional options for launch viewing
Friday’s launch, the 46th rocket launch of 2023 for SpaceX, was unremarkable, with a foggy backdrop at Vandenberg. Although we didn’t have clear ground feeds of the launch due to the fog, Twitter provided additional viewing options. While not entirely new feeds, Twitter offered a multi-view feature that allowed users to switch between various shots…
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China launches new satellite to test satellite internet technologies
China on Sunday sent a new test satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The satellite was launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 7:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit. It will carry out test missions for satellite internet technologies. The launch was the 478th flight…
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SpaceX and the FAA on the same side for once, asking for Starship’s lawsuit thrown out
This is the first significant news arising from the Starship-FAA lawsuit since SpaceX joined as a co-defendant earlier this year. However, the motion to dismiss was anticipated, with SpaceX denying all allegations against Starship regarding damage to the local ecosystem. While acknowledging that dust and debris were spread from beneath the orbital launch mount, SpaceX…
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West Coast launch puts 48 more Starlink internet satellites in orbit
SpaceX lofted another batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9, carrying 48 satellites inside its payload fairing, lifted off at 12:29:50 p.m. PDT (3:29:50 p.m. EDT; 1929:50 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 4-East. A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base…