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China completes record-breaking 25 space launches in January-June
China carried out a record-breaking 25 space launch missions in the first half of the year, with no failure, indicating a steady progress in building up the country’s spaceflight capabilities. The space launch missions included sending a new crew to the orbiting Tiangong space station, adding new satellites to the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, and…
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Outgoing SES CEO Steve Collar Shares the Reasons Behind His Surprise Departure
Steve Collar has been the face of SES and O3b for just over a decade. However, in mid-June, Collar announced he was stepping down from the role as SES’s CEO after just over five years in the role. He had previously been the CEO of O3b for just over six years. Soon after, SES announced…
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Mars helicopter calls home after long communications blackout
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s navigation camera captured the rotorcraft in shadow during its 52nd flight on April 26, 2023. This image was finally received after Ingenuity was out of communication for 63 days. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA engineers are prepping the miniature Mars helicopter Ingenuity for its 53rd flight across the surface of the Red Planet…
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Thales Announces Space Business Catalyst, Industry’s First Accelerator for Space Sector
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announces the creation of the Space Business Catalyst, a unique industry accelerator dedicated to the space sector to coincide with the Assises du New Space opening in Paris on July 5. The Space Business Catalyst is a first and is designed to explore,…
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NPC Spacemind: Empowering Research to Commercial Services in the Space Sector
Drawing upon over a decade of expertise in constructing intricate automated machinery and pioneering advancements in the space sector, NPC Spacemind endeavors to provide an all-inclusive range of services tailored for nanosatellite manufacturers and operators. Moreover, Spacemind leverages its specialized knowledge in various cutting-edge domains within the industry. This includes offering products and services to…
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Fleet Space Appoints Matteo Genna as New CTO
Fleet Space has appointed Matteo Genna as its new CTO, the company announced July 5. Genna has been in the space industry for around 30 years. After gaining his PhD in Physics from University of California, Berkeley, Genna joined SSL (now part of Maxar), where he led teams designing and building high-power Geostationary Orbit (GEO)…
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Maxar Delivers the Hughes Jupiter 3 Satellite Ahead of Launch
Hughes Network Systems’ long-awaited Jupiter 3 satellite is now at Cape Canaveral in Florida, ready to launch. SpaceX will launch Jupiter 3 on an upcoming mission, set for the night of July 23, according to Spaceflight Now. Manufacturer Maxar Technologies shipped the satellite from its facilities in Palo Alto, California, to Florida late last week.…
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ITU Waives Rivada Constellation Deadline
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has granted Rivada Space Networks request to waive the requirement to put 10% of its constellation into orbit this year. The decision came from the ITU’s Radio Regulations Board, Rivada announced Wednesday. The ITU Radio Regulations Board determined that Rivada can proceed to its second deployment milestone to place 144…
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Teledyne e2v Space Imaging Celebrates the Success of its Sensors as ESA Decommissions Aeolus
Teledyne e2v Space Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies, is proud to have designed and built sensors for Aeolus, the first ESA satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth’s wind on a global scale. Named after the Greek god of the winds, Aeolus is the fifth satellite in the Living Planet Programme of the European Space…
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Seattle-area Space Summit features NASA leader and hints at new manufacturing institute
Participants at the Washington State Space Summit were able to get inside of an exact replica of the Blue Origin crew capsule. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Sen. Maria Cantwell and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson met Wednesday at the Washington State Space Summit to hash out what’s needed to grow and strengthen the Pacific Northwest’s…