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Leo Labs and Clear Space Collaborate for a Safer and Sustainable Space Environment
Leo Labs, the commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management services, announced that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Clear Space, the Swiss-based, in-orbit satellite servicing company. The MOU recognizes the two companies’ shared vision of a safe and sustainable space ecosystem and their mutual efforts in making this…
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Blue Canyon Enabling Space Missions to Expand the Frontiers of Science and Defense
Blue Canyon, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, is a complete end-to-end spacecraft company and a leading provider of turnkey small satellites solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class satellites. BCT, through its various missions, is enabling space missions to expand the frontiers of science and defense. Their attitude determination and control components are one-of-a-kind, allowing for…
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Loft Orbital Procures 15 More Satellite Buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites
Loft Orbital has procured a second batch of 15 satellites from Airbus OneWeb Satellites, for the bus platform based on the OneWeb satellites. Loft Orbital announced the deal April 6, saying that it sold out of the first batch ordered in January 2022. Loft Orbital has now ordered more than 30 buses from Airbus OneWeb…
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Airline Industry Platform ch-aviation Taps Spire for Global Flight Analytics
Airline industry platform ch-aviation has a new long-term agreement with Spire Global for global flight analytics and insights, Spire announced April 6. The agreement includes access to Spire’s daily Flight Report, which aggregates satellite and terrestrial ADS-B positions to provide flight, aircraft, and airline metadata. The Flight Report detects both scheduled and unscheduled flights in…
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Chinese Tianlong-2 successfully debuts from Jiuquan
The Tianlong-2 rocket by Space Pioneer successfully performed its debut flight on April 2 and 08:48 UTC. In a rare occurrence, the company’s first orbital flight performed well, reaching its targeted orbit. The launch was conducted at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. This launch makes Tianlong-2 the first RP-1-based private rocket from China…
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NRO Awards Options To 4 Commercial RF Satellite Companies
Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space and Spire Global have each received contract options from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to assess on-orbit capabilities under a prior contract the agency awarded the companies for commercial radio frequency remote sensing data. The NRO awarded a Stage II option to Hawkeye in February and the other three companies on April 1,…
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Intelsat Adds Capacity for Mobility and Enterprise Customers With IS-40e Launch
Intelsat’s newly launched IS-40e satellite will add capacity over North America in key markets the company is targeting — commercial aviation, mobility, and network services. SpaceX launched the Maxar-built satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:30 a.m. EDT early Friday, April 7. Intelsat confirmed signal acquisition…
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SpaceX launches Intelsat 40e with NASA’s TEMPO instrument
SpaceX has launched its 23rd mission of 2023 with the company’s Falcon 9 rocket lofting the Intelsat-40e/TEMPO payload to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). Liftoff of the Intelsat-40e/TEMPO mission occurred at the opening of a 119-minute window at 12:30 AM EDT (04:30 UTC) on April 7 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape…
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Thuraya and Astrocast Partner for Strategic Investment in LEO IoT Network
Thuraya Telecommunications Company, the mobile satellite services subsidiary of the UAE’s flagship satellite solutions provider, Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC, the UAE’s flagship satellite solutions provider listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, announced that it has concluded Heads of Terms for an investment agreement with Astrocast, whose functions are into Low Earth Orbit…
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Quantum Space Introduces Ranger Orbital Transfer Vehicle
Startup Quantum Space introduced its Ranger orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) on Thursday, a new last-mile delivery service to carry payloads to Geostationary and cislunar orbits and beyond. Calling it a multi-operations vehicle, Quantum Space said Ranger is designed to take spacecraft to their final orbit more quickly and so customers can conserve propellant for operations.…