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Turion Space won a $32.6 million fixed-price contract to build three satellites for the Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) with multiple payloads and real-time command and control.  Under the contract announced Dec. 18, Turion Space will rapidly build three satellites with rendezvous proximity operations high-resolution, satellite-to-satellite imagery collection capabilities.  The work is expected to…

Maxar Intelligence has received $35 million in total for new tasking contracts from two government customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Maxar said these contracts are the first purchase of direct access to WorldView Legion imagery. Maxar has four WorldView Legion satellites in orbit to collect 30 cm class imagery.  As part of Maxar’s Direct Access…

NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a $179 million award to deliver six experiments to the Moon in 2028. This will be Firefly’s third lunar mission and it is its fourth NASA task order. The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload (CLPS) initiative and will utilize Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, its Elytra Dark orbital…

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed allocating more spectrum for space launch communication. The proposal announced on Dec. 19 would reallocate the 2360–2395 MHz band on a secondary basis for space operations. Rosenworcel said this will provide “certainty and predictability” for commercial launches.  According to the release, “these rules would add spectrum to support space…

Arianespace’s longtime CEO Stéphane Israël will leave the company at the end of the year, the French launcher announced Thursday. Israël led Arianespace since 2013 and supervised 108 launches and played a key role in the development of the Ariane 6.  Israël began a new role as partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on Jan.…