Tag: Aerospace
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SWISSto12 Secures NEASTAR-1 Reflector Contract from HPS/LSS
SWISSto12 announced a major contract with German high-performance space subsystem providers HPS/LSS. The Munich-based consortium will provide a large deployable reflector subsystem (LDRS) for the NEASTAR-1 mission, built on HummingSat, enabling the world’s first direct-to-device media broadcasting capabilities from geostationary orbit. The German-led antenna reflector subsystem is the result of more than 15 years of…
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Astroscale Advances Debris Inspection with ADRAS-J Mission
Astroscale, a space sustainability company focused on in-orbit servicing and debris removal technologies, has advanced orbital debris management with the ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan) mission. The mission is designed to demonstrate high-precision rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) for safe inspection and characterization of large, unprepared space debris. The mission was conducted in collaboration with the…
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SciTec Secures Deal to Advance Space Force Missile Defense Under Golden Dome
SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, announced it received an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement from U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to support the nation’s emerging missile defense- architecture as part of the Space Based- Interceptor (SBI) program. This program was established under the Department of War to develop a space-based missile defense interceptor system…
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Planet Labs Launches Three Additional High-Resolution Pelican Satellites
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced the successful launch of three additional Pelican satellites, one of which is the first satellite to orbit as part of the recently announced satellite services agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF). The spacecraft were launched to orbit aboard the…
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Planet Labs and Carbon Mapper Sign Agreement for New Tanager Spacecraft
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced its plans to design a specialized version of the Tanager spacecraft. Together with Carbon Mapper, and with support from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Planet plans to architect this cutting-edge spacecraft as a specialized iteration of Tanager, designed to solely…
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KONGSBERG Selected for Seven European Defence Fund Projects
The European Commission has allocated EUR 1.07 billion to 57 projects under the 2025 EDF programme, part of a total budget of EUR 7.3 billion for the period 2021–2027. EDF is the EU’s programme for collaborative defence research and development, designed to strengthen industrial cooperation and support the development of shared capabilities across Member States.…
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Loft Orbital and EarthDaily Analytics Sets Record Launch with Six Satellites
Loft Orbital, a global space infrastructure company, and EarthDaily Analytics, a premier provider of end-to-end Earth observation solutions, announced a milestone mission planned for this quarter that will see six EarthDaily satellites deployed on a single launch. This mission marks a major step in the full deployment of EarthDaily’s constellation and will double the size…
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Redwire Launches Additional Colloids Experiments to the International Space Station
Redwire launched additional colloids experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard a recent commercial resupply mission to the ISS. These modules support Redwire’s Colloidal Solids Instrument (COLIS), a powerful research platform advancing our understanding of diseases, drug development, advanced materials, industrial processes, and biomedical applications. When sunscreen thickens over time or mayonnaise slowly separates…
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HawkEye 360 to Support NASA in Developing Resilient Space Communications
HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, announced that the Commercial Crew and Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Programs at NASA have awarded the company a contract to supply its RFIQ data product to support critical research on future space-to-space communications. Leveraging its constellation of satellites, HawkEye 360 provides radio frequency…
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Starfighters Space Joins C-STARS Space Research Consortium
Starfighters Space, Inc., a commercial aerospace company operating the world’s fastest fleet of supersonic aircraft, announced that it has joined the Centre for Science, Technology, and Advanced Research in Space (C-STARS), a proposed National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry–University Cooperative Research Centre (IUCRC) focused on advancing space manufacturing and training the next generation of space technology…