Tag: Ground
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Star Catcher Raises $65 Million to Build the First Power Grid in Space
Star Catcher, the company building the first power grid in space, announced it has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. The new investment, led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus Capital Management brings Star Catcher’s total capital raised to $88 million. Cerberus’…
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Solstar Space Expands Space Networking and Communications for Orbital and Lunar Missions
Solstar Space is advancing space-based networking and communications technologies designed to support human spaceflight, satellite operations, lunar exploration and future deep-space missions. Headquartered in Santa Fe, the company is developing integrated communications solutions intended to provide persistent connectivity between astronauts, spacecraft, payloads and mission operators across Low Earth Orbit (LEO), lunar orbit, the lunar surface…
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Globalstar Announces HIBLEO-4 Satellite Replenishment Launch with SpaceX
Globalstar, a next-generation telecommunications infrastructure and technology provider, announced that Globalstar’s HIBLEO-4 replenishment satellites will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday, May 17 during a 14-minute window that opens at 8:50 a.m. ET, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The satellites are designed to help replenish Globalstar’s existing low Earth…
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Space42 and Sindan Partner on Autonomous Systems Testing and Satellite Connectivity Integration
Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company with global reach, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sindan, a specialist in advanced additive manufacturing, to discuss collaboration across satellite connectivity solutions on autonomous systems. The partnership will study synergies between Space42’s satellite communications capabilities and aerospace systems, alongside Sindan’s manufacturing and flight-testing infrastructure. The agreement…
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BlackSky Secures Seven-Figure Government Contract for Advanced Gen-2 Mission Applications
BlackSky Technology Inc. was awarded a seven-figure subscription contract with a new government customer for new and advanced Gen-2 mission applications. This initial one-year period-of-performance contract expands access to Gen-2 capacity and increases mission value for the customer. “BlackSky’s Gen-2 constellation continues to provide tremendous real-time operational utility to our global customer base with high-cadence,…
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Sierra Space Advances Orbital Cargo Transportation with Dream Chaser Spaceplane
Sierra Space, a US-based aerospace company focused on commercial space transportation and orbital infrastructure systems, is advancing reusable orbital cargo operations through its Dream Chaser spaceplane and Shooting Star cargo module architecture. The integrated system is designed to deliver and return cargo from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) while supporting runway-based spacecraft recovery and flexible logistics…
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MDA Space Opens High-Volume Satellite Production Facility in Montréal
MDA Space Ltd., a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, inaugurated its new high-volume satellite manufacturing facility in Montréal, marking a defining milestone in the company’s growth as a satellite prime contractor. The 185,000-square-foot expansion was completed in under two years from groundbreaking to operational clean rooms.…
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Eycore and NanoAvionics Launch Polish SAR Sat with Neutrino/Quantum Missions
SpaceX’s second CAS500 (Compact Advanced Satellite 500) mission to low-Earth orbit (LEO) carried, among others, three satellites using buses from small-satellite manufacturer Kongsberg NanoAvionics into orbit: Eycore-1, a pilot for an all-European, military-grade Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) solution and NanoAvionics’ platform debut for SAR applications, QUBE II, demoing the first-ever quantum key exchange between a…
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Lonestar Data Holdings Inc Signs NASA Space Act Agreement
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc, a leader in resilient space-based data storage and infrastructure, announced it has signed a Space Act Agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration focused on advancing technologies and operational concepts supporting lunar data storage,…
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Rocket Lab Corporation to Acquire Motiv Space Systems for Robotics and Spacecraft Integration
Rocket Lab Corporation a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Motiv Space Systems (Motiv), a California-based company specializing in space robotics, motion control systems, and precision mechanisms for spacecraft. The acquisition will advance two strategic objectives for Rocket Lab: it will add Mars-proven robotics…