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Lockheed Martin Realigns its Space Business to Boost Efficiency
The Space business area within Lockheed Martin announced upcoming changes in order to promote greater effectiveness in delivering on customer missions, support growth and innovation, and create stronger collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners. The realignment follows the recent establishment of Lockheed Martin Space’s Ignite organization, an innovation hub for rapid capability development. “With an…
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Benchmark Combines Space Heritage with Its Advanced Control Systems Products and Services
Benchmark Space Systems to make space more accessible and sustainable by providing world-class in-space mobility solutions to their customers and partners. Their mission includes three major criterias : Accessible: Space is a natural resource that should be available for the good of all humanity. In-Space Mobility: Mobility is enabled through hardware, software and services, allowing…
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Rocket Lab Launches First TROPICS Storm-Monitoring Mission for NASA
Rocket Lab launched the first TROPICS mission for NASA on Monday from New Zealand, launching two cubesats that will monitor hurricanes. This is the first of two dedicated missions for NASA to launch four total cubesats in the TROPICS constellation. The Electron mission took off at 1 p.m. local time from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex…
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Axess Networks to Connect 700 New 4G Nodes in Mexico
Axess Networks is helping bringing more connectivity to hard to reach areas in Mexico. The company announced May 4 that it will connect more than 700 new 4G nodes via satellite for CFE Telecomunicaciones “Internet for All” program, a national development plan in Mexico. The new 4G nodes will be connected throughout 2023. These new…
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Blue Origin picking up the pace at the Cape
While SpaceX has captured headlines with its first test flight of Starship, Blue Origin, the company founded by rival billionaire Jeff Bezos, is ramping up work on its own reusable heavy-lift rocket and a reusable Starship-like vehicle. The New Glenn rocket, listed as having a payload capacity of 13 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit…
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Start of construction paves way for first UK mainland vertical launch
The ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction was attended by a number of officials, including (from left): Richard Lochhead, Minister for Small Business, Innovation & Trade, Scottish Government; Kristian von Bengtson, Chief Development Officer & Interim CEO, Orbex; Dorothy Pritchard, Chair, Melness Crofters’ Estate; Bart Markus, Chairman, Orbex; Ian Annett, Deputy CEO, UK…
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Europe’s Advanced Weather Satellite Reveals Earth’s Cloudy Image
Europe’s newest weather satellite reveals conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic with an extraordinary level of detail. Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, and the European Space Agency (ESA) jointly released the image from the first satellite in the new generation of European weather satellites, Meteosat Third Generation – Imager 1 (MTG-I1). MTG-I1 was launched…
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CesiumAstro to Provide Active Phased Array Communication Payloads for SDA’s T1TL Lunar Exploration
CesiumAstro, a provider company of active phased array communications technology for space and airborne systems, announced that the company was selected by Raytheon Technologies to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) RF communications payload for integration into seven space vehicles supporting Space Development Agency’s (SDA’s) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. CesiumAstro’s Vireo payload will…
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Rosenberger Connectors Used in ESA Satellite as Part of the Mission to Explore Jupiter and its Moons
Rosenberger announced that more than 100 of the SMP, SMA, and RPC-2.92 series, are among the essential components that the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft is carrying on its journey to the planet. The Juice spacecraft – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) – of the European Space Agency ESA consists of various components…
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China successfully lands reusable test spacecraft
A reusable experimental spacecraft on Monday successfully returned to its scheduled landing site at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The spacecraft returned after 276 days of in-orbit operation. The success of the experiment marks an important breakthrough in China’s research on reusable spacecraft technologies, which will provide more convenient and affordable round-trip…