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OroraTech and Spire Partner on Satellites to Track and Monitor Wildfires
OroraTech is expanding its partnership with Spire Global to build, launch, and operate an eight-satellite constellation dedicated to global temperature monitoring. The two companies announced the partnership on June 28. Once operational, it will represent one of the first and largest constellation of satellites dedicated to tracking and monitoring wildfires. Each spacecraft in the eight-satellite…
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Branson’s Virgin Galactic flies its first commercial mission
Virgin Galactic launched three Italian researchers and three company employees on the suborbital operator’s first commercial flight to the edge of space Thursday. The six-man crew rocketed to an altitude of more than 279,000 feet, higher than the 50-mile height recognized as the boundary of space by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, according to…
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Lockheed Martin to Launch Tech Demo on Firefly Aerospace Alpha Vehicle
Lockheed Martin has signed a deal to launch a tech demonstration on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha launch vehicle. This is the first deal between Lockheed Martin and the launcher. Firefly’s Thursday announcement was light on details on what the mission will entail, and when it will occur. The Alpha rocket has the capability to launch…
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Virgin Galactic readies spaceplane for first commercial flight on Thursday
Virgin Galactic’s Eve carrier jet carries the VSS Unity on a test flight in April 2023. Image: Virgin Galactic. Four-and-a-half years after an initial sub-orbital test flight, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is finally ready to begin commercial operations with the launch Thursday of a six-man crew, including three Italian researchers, on an up-and-down flight to…
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ULA shipping Vulcan upper stage back to factory for more work
United Launch Alliance technicians at Cape Canaveral, Florida, have partially disassembled the first Vulcan rocket to send the launch vehicle’s upper stage back to its factory for reinforcements to its paper-thin steel fuel tank. A test article for the Vulcan rocket’s Centaur V upper stage exploded on March 29 during a structural test at NASA’s…
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Virgin Galactic launches its first commercial flight to space
VSS Unity ignites its engine after being released from its carrier aircraft. Image: Virgin Galactic. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic launched its first commercial space flight Thursday, sending three Italian researchers, two company pilots and an astronaut trainer on a high-speed thrill ride to the edge of space aboard a winged rocketplane. “Che volo fantastico [what…
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Ramon.Space Raises $26M from Foxconn Subsidiary, Other Investors
Space computing company Ramon.Space has raised $26 million from Ingrasys, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, Abu Dhabi-based strategic investment firm Strategic Development Fund, and existing investors Grove Ventures, Deep Insight and UMC Capital. Ramon.Space announced the new funding on June 28 and said the funding will help it commercialize its computing platform for space…
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Arctic Broadband Satellites Complete Thermal Vacuum Testing
Two satellites that will provide high-speed broadband in the Arctic for the Global Xpress service have completed vacuum testing. The two satellites are part of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, which was an Inmarsat mission, and is now part of Viasat following the acquisition. The mission, managed by Space Norway Heosat and will deploy the two…
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A handover ceremony held in Egypt for models of the MisrSat-2 project
A handover ceremony was held at the Satellite Assembly, Integration and Test Center in New Cairo city in the Eastern Area of Cairo in Egypt for two models of a remote-sensing satellite jointly developed by Chinese and Egyptian scientists on Sunday. The MisrSat-2 is a benchmark project for space cooperation between China and Egypt under…
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Aalyria Wins Naval Research Laboratory Laser Comms Contract
Google connectivity-focused spinoff Aalyria has a new contract from the Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop over-the-horizon connectivity for the Navy’s sea, air, and land assets. The initial $7 million contract award is for the first phase of the Navy’s Secure Optical Aerial Relay (SOAR) project, which aims to provide…