Tag: Ground
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Exolaunch Reaches 500th Satellite Deployed During Transporter-13 with SpaceX
Exolaunch, the global leader in launch mission management, satellite integration, and deployment services, has successfully deployed 27 customer satellites on SpaceX‘s Transporter-13 rideshare mission, delivering nearly 1,500 kilograms of payloads into orbit for customers from fourteen countries. The mission also marked the first flight of Exolaunch’s Quadro four-point separation system, which performed flawlessly, ensuring a…
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Muon Space Launches FireSat Protoflight to Revolutionize Wildfire Detection
Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider, has successfully launched the FireSat Protoflight satellite, marking a significant milestone in the deployment of the FireSat constellation. This groundbreaking initiative aims to transform global wildfire detection, monitoring, and response. Designed and built by Muon Space, including its state-of-the-art six-channel multispectral infrared (IR) instrument, FireSat showcases the company’s…
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Kongsberg NanoAvionics Deploys First Satellite for Norway’s N3X Maritime Surveillance Constellation
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has successfully launched the first of three initial microsatellites for Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace’s N3X constellation. The launch is part of a five-year contract awarded in 2024 by the Norwegian Armed Forces to KONGSBERG for providing maritime surveillance data. The ARVAKER I satellite was launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission from Vandenberg Space…
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Ursa Major to Provide Chemical Propulsion for Tactical Satellite Bus Systems
Ursa Major has been awarded a contract for delivery of fully integrated GEO propulsion systems for a customer focused on critical space missions. The multi-year award totaling $10 to $15 million supports the development, manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing of a full propulsion system capable of six degree-of-freedom maneuverability. Building upon successful flights for hypersonic…
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BlackSky Delivers 1st AI-Enabled Analytics Derived from Gen-3 Imagery
BlackSky Technology, a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world, has delivered its first AI-enabled analytics derived from new, very high-resolution imagery captured by the company’s first Gen-3 satellite three weeks after its successful…
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Sidus Space Launched AI-Powered LizzieSat-3 on SpaceX Transporter-13 Mission
Liftoff of the Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, LizzieSat-3 is targeted for a launch window that opens, on March 14, 2025, at 11:39 PM PDT. The satellite will launch as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. LizzieSat-3 is…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launches to ISS for Science Expedition
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission of four crew members were launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace…
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ICEYE Expands SAR Satellite Fleet with Gen4 for Advanced Earth & Defense Imaging
ICEYE, the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging for high-fidelity Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully launched four new 25 cm resolution satellites, strengthening the company’s SAR satellite constellation, the largest in the world. Among the satellites was ICEYE’s Generation 4 satellite (Gen4), marking another leap in the…
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Dawn Aerospace to Provide Reditus Space with Propulsion for On-Orbit Manufacturing Satellite
Dawn Aerospace, a global leader in green in-space propulsion, has announced a new partnership with Reditus Space Inc, marking it Dawn’s first venture supporting on orbit manufacturing applications in space. Reditus Space is a company focused on developing reusable satellites for zero-gravity manufacturing, particularly in materials, pharmaceutical and biologics, leverage the unique manufacturing opportunities that…
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Wiley and Pi School Partner on ESA’s AI-Powered Earth Virtual Expert (EVE) Project
Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, announced it will provide access to a curated collection of Earth science research materials to help enhance the training and capabilities of the European Space Agency’s Earth Virtual Expert (EVE). Wiley signed an agreement with Pi School, which is leading…