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Viasat Launches IoT Nano Services With Orbcomm OGx
Viasat’s enterprise business is rolling out a new IoT Nano connectivity service with two-way messaging, powered by Orbcomm’s OGx IoT service. The IoT nano service is designed for businesses to monitor and control fixed and mobile assets in remote and challenging environments, in industries like agriculture, transport, utilities, mining, and environmental monitoring. It offers two-way…
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Small Satellite Market Goes from Strength to Strength
Welcome to Via Smallsat, our annual special edition focused on the small satellite market to go alongside the Small Satellite Conference in Utah. It also now features two of our most popular stories of the year — Rising Stars and 10 Smallsat Startups to watch. This year, when we put out a call for Rising…
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Upcoming Boeing X-37B Mission to Test Inter-Satellite Laser Communications
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The eighth X-37B mission is set to test “next-generation technologies including laser communications and the highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space,” the service said on Monday. Last Dec.…
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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10 Smallsat Startups to Watch in 2025
Back for the fourth year, Via Satellite highlights 10 Smallsat Startups to Watch, companies on the rise in the smallsat arena in early funding rounds or pre-funding. This list represents companies from around the world that have piqued investors’ interest, honed in on a niche market, or advanced to technology milestones. This year’s list features…
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Nanomedicine on the ISS: Pioneering Medical and Pharmaceutical Research in Orbit
This episode of the Future Space Economy series focuses on how space is shaping the future of medicine. Host Jeff Hill is joined by Eascra Biotech CEO and co-founder Mari Anne Snow and Jana Stoudemire, senior executive, Barrios Technologies, to discuss some exciting new developments in bringing medical and pharmaceutical research to space. Eascra Biotech…
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Blue Origin’s First Blue Ring Mission to Showcase Space Domain Awareness with Scout Space Sensor
Blue Origin announced an agreement with Scout Space to integrate one of its flagship next-generation space domain awareness (SDA) Owl sensors onboard the first mission of Blue Ring, our highly maneuverable multi-mission spacecraft for payload delivery, hosting and infrastructure services. Blue Ring’s first mission is expected to launch in spring 2026 with initial injection into…
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Arianespace Launches Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D and CNES’s MicroCarb Satellites
Arianespace successfully launched Airbus Defence and Space‘s CO3D satellites, as well as the CNES‘s MicroCarb satellite, on Friday July 25th, 2025, at 11:03 p.m. local time (02:03 a.m. UTC, 04:03 a.m. CEST, on July 26th, 2025). This mission, called “VV27” was performed using an Arianespace-operated Vega C rocket, launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.…
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What is NASA GEVS?
The NASA General Environmental Verification Standard (GEVS) is a foundational document in aerospace engineering that outlines comprehensive test methodologies for verifying the structural integrity and operational reliability of space systems. Developed and maintained by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), GEVS acts as a critical quality assurance framework for evaluating spacecraft components, subsystems and entire…