Tag: Ground
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General Dynamics Wins $491.6M Contract from SDA for Tranche 2 Ground System Development
General Dynamics Missions Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced it was awarded a $491.6 million contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to perform design, analysis, engineering studies, and technical augmentation for their Ground Management and Integration (GMI) program’s integrated ground system. General Dynamics and teammate Iridium build upon the Tranche 1 (T1)…
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Viasat Launches Enhanced LAISR On-Demand Global L-Band Service for Air, Sea, and Land Users
Viasat Inc., a global company in satellite communications, introduced Enhanced LAISR, its global mobility, on-demand managed L-band service offering communications flexibility for airborne, maritime, and land users worldwide. It will deliver highly available, flexible, on-demand capabilities enabled by Viasat’s seamless, global L-band space and ground network. The award-winning L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LAISR)…
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SFL Chosen by NUVIEW to Develop Pathfinder Satellite Bus for LiDAR Constellation
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been chosen by NUVIEW, a space-technology company specializing in 3D Earth imaging, to develop the bus for Mr. SPoC, its pathfinder small satellite that will demonstrate the capabilities of the world’s first commercial space-based LiDAR constellation. Based in Orlando, Florida, NUVIEW is building a ground-breaking constellation of satellites that will…
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Benchmark Awarded $4.9M AFRL Contract to Scale Ascent-Fueled Thrusters For Government Missions
Benchmark Space Systems, the leading developer and integrator of in-space mobility solutions, announced it has won a critical two-year, $4.9 million Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) award to further develop its non-catalytic 22 Newton-to-100 Newton class propulsion systems to power government missions using high-performance ASCENT monopropellant. ASCENT (Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic) is a next-generation spacecraft…
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Sierra Space Shooting Star Cargo Module Completes Acoustic Testing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Sierra Space, a commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced the successful completion of acoustic testing on its Shooting Star cargo module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, moving the spacecraft a significant step closer to launch readiness. The test, the first of…
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Redwire Expands National Security Space Portfolio by Complete Acquisition of Hera Systems
Redwire Corporation, a leading company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Hera Systems, a spacecraft development company with expertise in specialized missions for national security space customers. The acquisition of Hera Systems expands Redwire’s spacecraft portfolio to support specialized national security space…
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Rocket Lab Schedules Second Launch for Kinéis IoT Constellation Deployment
Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it has set the launch window for its 53rd Electron Launch. The mission will be the second of five dedicated launches for the French company Kinéis, designed to provide global Internet of Things (IoT) accessibility worldwide. The ‘Kinéis Killed the RadIOT…
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Ovzon Secures Second U.S. Department of Defense Order for T7 Satellite Terminal
Ovzon has received a second order from the United States Department of Defense for the company’s most recent mobile satellite terminal, the Ovzon T7. The order value amounts to 0.4 MUSD. In February of this year, the United States Department of Defense (U.S. DOD) became the first customer to place an order for Ovzon T7,…
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Inmarsat’s NexusWave Trialed by Hapag-Lloyd for Enhanced Maritime Connectivity
Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has announced that global container liner shipping group Hapag-Lloyd is among the first to trial NexusWave, the fully managed service which delivers an unparalleled global service orchestrated by bringing together a multi-orbit, multi-band set of connectivity networks as a single network solution. The trials align with the Hamburg-headquartered shipping group’s…
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Arianespace Ready to Lift-off Vega Rocket for Sentinel-2C’s Multispectral Imaging Mission
Arianespace is set to launch Sentinel-2C Copernicus satellite for the European Commission within the scope of a contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA). The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is ready for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch will be on ESA WebTV…