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ispace’s RESILIENCE Lander Ready for Lunar Orbit After Maneuver Success
ispace, a global lunar exploration company, announced that its RESILIENCE lunar lander completed all deep space orbital maneuvers on April 24, 2025, at 10:00 UTC (7:00 pm JST) in advance of a planned lunar orbit insertion. This marks the completion of Success 6 milestone of Mission 2, “SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon.” ispace engineers performed…
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Amazon Project Kuiper Deployment Begins With First ULA Launch
United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the first full-scale mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation on Monday evening, starting the deployment phase of Amazon’s competitor to Starlink and OneWeb. ULA launched 27 satellites in the Kuiper-1 mission on an Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:01 p.m. EDT. The launch…
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Skylo Partners Brings Syniverse Partnership Benefits to Verizon Customers
Skylo Technologies is bringing two-way SMS messaging over satellite to Verizon customers thanks to a partnership with Syniverse. Skylo has extended the Syniverse Evolved Mobility solution as a method for seamless integration, allowing mobile network operators like Verizon to integrate SMS over non-terrestrial networks (NTN) with no changes in architecture, solutions, or hardware. Skylo announced…
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Space Solar Completes Design Study for CASSIOPeiA Satellite
Space Solar has completed CASSiDi, an 18-month, 1.7 million pound ($2.26 million) project designed to advance the design maturity of its CASSIOPeiA satellite. The project advanced key aspects of the design, including the wireless power beaming, in-space assembly process and the ground receiver. Space Solar said the study confirms that solar power satellite mass targets…
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Planet Signs Three-Year Contract with EMDYN to Provide Satellite Data for Intelligence Solutions
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced a multi-year contract with EMDYN, a European-based company providing agile intelligence-led solutions and security services. Through this relationship, EMDYN will use Planet’s near-daily global satellite imagery and taskable high-resolution SkySat satellites to monitor subtle activity across large geographical regions such…
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FCC Kicks Off Review of Satellite Spectrum Sharing and EPFD Limits
The FCC has opened a review of spectrum sharing between Geostationary (GEO) and Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellite systems, and invited comments on satellite power limits. During Monday’s open meeting, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that initiates a review and comment period on these issues. The FCC released the NPRM earlier this month. According…
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NASA’s Artemis Lunar Space Station Module Enters Final Outfitting Phase
NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of the Gateway program. The primary structure of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) arrived at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, where it will undergo final outfitting and verification testing. HALO will provide Artemis astronauts with space to live,…
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ESA’s Biomass mission launches aboard Vega-C
The European Space Agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission, Biomass, launched on Tuesday aboard an Arianespace Vega-C rocket. Biomass, which will study Earth’s forests and their impact on the planet’s climate, lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:15 UTC (6:15 AM local time). The Earth Explorer missions are part of the Living Planet Programme (LPP),…
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Amazon and ULA count down to second launch attempt for Project Kuiper satellites
An Atlas V rocket stands ready to launch Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites. (United Launch Alliance Photo) After a nearly three-week delay, Amazon and United Launch Alliance prepared once again to launch the first batch of full-scale satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet network. Liftoff is set to take place today at Space Launch Complex…