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Viasat’s Rick Baldridge to Retire
Viasat’s former CEO Rick Baldridge is retiring from his role as vice chairman with the completion of the Inmarsat acquisition, and will remain on the company’s board of directors. Baldridge is a longtime executive at Viasat and served as CEO for about a year and half while founder Mark Dankberg stepped away from the role.…
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ICEYE’s Third Generation SAR Satellites Successfully Launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 Mission
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring with radar imaging satellites and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, successfully expanded its constellation with four new synthetic aperture radar (“SAR”) satellites on June 12. The launch of SpaceX’s Transporter-8 smallsat rideshare mission via Exolaunch was conducted from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. …
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Rocket Lab Spacecraft Built for Varda Space Industries Successfully Starts On Orbit Operations
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced its spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, a leading in-space manufacturing, and hypersonic re-entry logistics company, is successfully operating in orbit after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission. The spacecraft was developed, manufactured, and tested at Rocket…
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Terran Orbital Hires Virgin Orbit Exec Tony Gingiss as COO
Terran Orbital has hired Tony Gingiss as the company’s new COO, snagging the executive after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy. Gingiss has a long career in the space industry including more than two decades with Boeing Satellites Systems and Airbus OneWeb Satellites, which he led as CEO. Gingiss was COO of Virgin Orbit and had been with…
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Scientists trace phosphates to Enceladus, boosting outlook for life on Saturn’s moon
A cutaway view shows water rising up from Enceladus’ ice-covered ocean. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration) Phosphorus, an essential ingredient for life as we know it, has been detected for the first time in water samples that can be traced back to Enceladus, an ice-covered moon of Saturn. The discovery, reported today in the journal Nature,…
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Tomorrow.io Raises $87M in Series E Round
Tomorrow.io announced an $87 million Series E funding round, along with the successful launch of its second satellite on this week’s SpaceX rideshare mission. Activate Capital led the round for the weather intelligence startup, and new investors include RTX Ventures, Seraphim, and Chemonics. Existing investors SquarePeg Capital, Canaan, ClearVision, JetBlue Ventures, and Pitango participated as…
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Tomorrow.io Raises $87M in Series E Round
Tomorrow.io announced an $87 million Series E funding round, along with the successful launch of its second satellite on this week’s SpaceX rideshare mission. Activate Capital led the round for the weather intelligence startup, and new investors include RTX Ventures, Seraphim, and Chemonics. Existing investors SquarePeg Capital, Canaan, ClearVision, JetBlue Ventures, and Pitango participated as…
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Spire Successfully Launches Satellites Carrying Optical Payload on SpaceX Transporter-8 Mission
Spire Global, Inc., a global provider of space-based data analytics and space services, successfully launched and made contact with two satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission carrying optical inter-satellite link (OISL) payloads that will significantly reduce data latency and strengthen the security of communication. The 6U satellites are equipped with optical communications terminals (OCT) to…
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China’s parachute system makes controllable landing of rocket boosters
During a recent space launch, China tested a parachute system that can help guide fallen rocket boosters into targeted areas, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology said on Friday. The system was used on a Long March-3B rocket carrying a BeiDou navigation satellite into orbit on May 17 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center…
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Pioneering space scientist dies at 103
Lu Yuanjiu, a distinguished scientist and recipient of the July 1 Medal, the Communist Party of China’s highest honor, died on Tuesday in Beijing. He was 103. Lu was one of the most decorated scientists in China and one of the founders of the nation’s space industry. He was an expert in automatic control, gyroscope,…