Tag: Ground
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Impulse Space Advances Orbital Operations with Mira High-Thrust Maneuverable Spacecraft
Impulse Space is expanding the spacecraft portfolio with Mira, a high-performance, maneuverable spacecraft designed to support payload hosting, deployment and dynamic orbital operations across multiple orbital regimes. Engineered for flexibility and responsiveness, Mira is built to enable missions that require precise maneuvering, rapid retasking and high delta-v performance in increasingly complex space environments. With a…
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Rhea Space Activity Raises $6 Million to Scale GPS-Free AutoNav
Rhea Space Activity (RSA), a leader in deep space GPS-denied navigation with the optical software “AutoNav,” announced the close of its ~$6 million Series A round to accelerate its growth and respond to demand for its GPS-independent navigation software from the U.S. and allied partner military/intelligence customers. Funding from Boston Global (BG) Space Tech Investors,…
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Simsbury Manufacturer Plays Critical Role in NASA’s Artemis II Crewed Lunar Mission
Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense (EBAD), which employs approximately 500 people in Simsbury, CT and 300 in Moorpark, CA has designed, manufactured, and rigorously tested mission-critical hardware supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission; the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years. Artemis II will carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby,…
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AST SpaceMobile Confirms Orbital Launch of BlueBird 7 Launch on New Glenn Vehicle
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, addresses orbital launch of BlueBird 7 on the New Glenn launch vehicle. During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the…
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Voyager Technologies Selected by NASA for Seventh Private Astronaut Mission
Voyager Technologies has signed an order with NASA for the seventh Private Astronaut Mission to the International Space Station, launching no earlier than 2028. “This award reflects decades of partnership with NASA and validates our belief that the infrastructure being built in low-Earth orbit today is the launchpad for humanity’s future in deep space,” said…
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SATNUS Completes Fourth NGWS/FCAS Test Campaign at INTA-CEDEA
SATNUS successfully completed the fourth flight demonstration campaign under Pillar 3 of the Next Generation Weapon System/ Future Combat Air System (NGWS/FCAS) program at the INTA-CEDEA facilities. The campaign consisted of nine flights aimed at verifying the Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUT) software led by SATNUS and developed in collaboration with the international partners Airbus and MBDA, integrated into…
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Boeing and Millennium Expand Satellite Production with New Resolute Platform
Boeing and its subsidiary Millennium Space Systems are expanding space production capacity and broadening their satellite portfolio to help government and commercial customers field capability faster and with greater flexibility. The effort includes Resolute, a new mid-class satellite platform designed for missions that need more capability than a traditional small satellite can provide, with greater…
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CES and Tecton Establishes a Satellite Data and Geospatial Venture in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is rapidly emerging as a key hub for digital transformation and space technology development in Central Asia. In response to this momentum, CES and Tecton Analytics have jointly established Kazakhstan Earth Services (KES), a new venture aimed at advancing satellite data utilization and geospatial intelligence across Kazakhstan and the broader CIS region. KES has been…
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RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies Expands Reaction Wheel Production Capacity
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, part of RTX’s Raytheon business, is increasing reaction wheel production capacity to support growing demand for spacecraft subsystems and components. The company has allocated more than $1 million to expand production capability from 650 reaction wheels per year to 2,400 wheels per year – a…
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Synopsys Support NASA Artemis with Spacesuit Analysis & Comms Systems
NASA selected Synopsys and EMA to verify spacesuit compatibility with the lunar environment. This work advances Synopsys’ ongoing support of future Artemis missions, which also includes a collaborative effort with Cesium, part of Bentley Systems, and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to validate cellular system performance on the lunar surface using digital twin technology.…