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Progress MS-32 launches to ISS from Baikonur
Just over two weeks after the CRS-33 cargo delivery to the International Space Station, another cargo ship is now flying to humanity’s orbital outpost, this time from the other side of the world. Progress MS-32, which rolled out to its launch pad on Monday, Sept. 8, flew atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31/6…
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New Hyperspectral Satellite Startup Messium Targets Crop Monitoring
U.K.-based startup Messium looks to use hyperspectral satellites to monitor nitrogen in crops. The company announced a 3.3 million euro ($3.9 million) seed round this week, led by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) and Expansion Aerospace Ventures. Messium’s platform combines hyperspectral satellite data that measures nitrogen levels in fields with AI models that…
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Space Infrastructure Startup Rendezvous Robotics Emerges from Stealth
Rendezvous Robotics, a new startup focused on space infrastructure emerged from stealth mode this week with $3 million in pre-seed funding. The company is started by a team with experience at SpaceX, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, and Nokia, and is focused on a new way of in-space assembly using modular tiles. Rendezvous plans to scale…
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Space Infrastructure Startup Rendezvous Robotics Emerges from Stealth
Rendezvous Robotics, a new startup focused on space infrastructure emerged from stealth mode this week with $3 million in pre-seed funding. The company is started by a team with experience at SpaceX, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, and Nokia, and is focused on a new way of in-space assembly using modular tiles. Rendezvous plans to scale…
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Idaho to Deploy Satellite-Based Wildfire Detection With OroraTech
The Idaho Department of Lands will deploy a statewide satellite-based wildfire detection and monitoring system through a new partnership with OroraTech USA. OroraTech said Sept. 10 that the system uses both public and its own proprietary wildfire satellites and other public data sources. It is designed to provide fire location, intensity, and predicted spread. The…
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Pentagon begins deploying new satellite network to link sensors with shooters
The first 21 satellites in a constellation that could become a cornerstone for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile-defense shield successfully launched from California Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 7:12 am PDT (10:12 am EDT; 14:12 UTC) and headed south over the…
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DSEI Takeaways: Space and Cyber and the Invisible Front Line
LONDON — The advance of space and cyber technologies is creating “an invisible front line” in the warfighting domain. Royal Air Force Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, who is serving as assistant chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnership, with the U.S. Space Force (USSF) said during the Space Forum at DSEI UK on…
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DSEI Takeaways: Space and Cyber and the Invisible Front Line
LONDON — The advance of space and cyber technologies is creating “an invisible front line” in the warfighting domain. Royal Air Force Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, who is serving as assistant chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnership, with the U.S. Space Force (USSF) said during the Space Forum at DSEI UK on…
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Allente Taps Space Norway for Further Broadcast Capacity
Space Norway has signed a new broadcast deal in the Nordic region with Allente, a major player in the Nordic pay-TV market, for long-term satellite capacity from the 1 degree West orbital position. This partnership aims to enhance communication infrastructure and service delivery across the region. The deal was announced Sept. 11. The two players…
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SFL Missions Secures Contract to Build Three HawkEye 360 Satellite Clusters for Advanced RF Detection
SFL Missions Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide spacecraft bus units in support of three new HawkEye 360 satellite Clusters, totaling nine spacecraft, which will expand HawkEye 360’s RF detection and geolocation constellation. The contract includes Cluster 14, which is similar to those recently launched by HawkEye 360, and Clusters 15 and 16,…