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NASA set to announce crew of Artemis 2 moon mission
A cadre of NASA astronauts walks toward the Space Launch System moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida before launch of the Artemis 1 test flight last year. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA will unveil the four crew members Monday who will fly around the moon on the first piloted flight of the agency’s Orion…
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SpaceX launches initial satellites for Space Development Agency
SpaceX has launched a batch of 10 communications and missile tracking satellites on the Tranche 0 Flight 1 mission for the Space Development Agency (SDA) on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 7:29 AM PDT (14:29 UTC). The flight took off from launch site SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The satellites were placed…
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EGS Integration Console engineers review Artemis I campaign
The NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program is continuing to review the experiences from the Artemis I launch campaign as teams plan and prepare for Artemis II in a couple of years. History suggested there would be a long ground campaign to the Space Launch System’s (SLS) first liftoff, and a series of issues —…
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SDA is Ready to Demonstrate PWSA Capabilities With the First Tranche 0 Launch
The Space Development Agency (SDA) saw the successful first launch for its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation this weekend. This was a highly anticipated launch as Tranche 0 demonstrates the feasibility of a proliferated constellation architecture for beyond line of sight targeting and advanced missile detection and tracking. SpaceX launched the first 10 satellites of…
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How Rapid Growth in Drone Use and EU Regulations Will Accelerate Demand for Satellite Connectivity
By 2030, global use of commercial drones is expected to increase tenfold, and the market is growing exponentially, especially due to geopolitical concerns and increasing commoditization. But with rapid growth comes new regulation, and this creates new business opportunities for developers and providers of satellite-based connectivity for drone technology. The international drone market can be…
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Astrofein Unveils New Reaction Wheel for Cubesats
Astrofein one of the market leaders in space products that develop, builds and test space systems and space components such as satellite buses and CubeSat deployers has introduced a new reaction wheel that has been designed for CubeSats. The RW1 Type A which has been developed by Astrofein is a CubeSat reaction wheel that features…
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BlackSky’s New Satellites Begin Revenue Generation Within 18 Hours of Commissioning
BlackSky Technology Inc. successfully commissioned two new satellites that began revenue-generating commercial operations within 18 hours of “The Beat Goes On” launch mission. BlackSky achieved a baseline operational constellation of 14 low earth orbit small satellites in 2022. The satellites launched Friday temporarily bring the total number of operational spacecraft to 16. The new satellites will…
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Eutelsat Hotbird 13F Reaches Orbit
Eutelsat Hotbird 13F satellite — the first Eurostar Neo satellite — has reached its operational Geostationary Orbit (GEO). SpaceX launched the satellite for operator Eutelsat Communications in October 2022. The satellite is one of two satellites built by Airbus Defence and Space for Eutelsat as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Neosat Partnership Project.…
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Seized property at Baikonur threatens Soyuz-5 program
In early March 2023, reports began to circulate that Kazakhstan had seized the property of Roscosmos at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This has raised questions regarding launch operations from the spaceport, including important crew and cargo logistics flights for the International Space Station (ISS). However, it is likely that the development of the Soyuz-5 rocket, as…