Tag: Ground
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Solstar Space Company Successfully Launches Deke Space Communicator to Orbit
Santa Fe-based Solstar Space Company announced that its Deke Space Communicator has been successfully launched to orbit and is now operating nominally in space, following its March 30, 2026 flight aboard a spacecraft operated by Momentus Inc. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. After orbital insertion, the Deke system was…
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Ursa Major Reaches 10 Successful Hadley Engine Flights Proving Reusable Hypersonic Capability
Ursa Major’s Hadley liquid rocket engine has completed 10 consecutive successful flights, including multiple missions at sustained hypersonic speeds with Stratolaunch. The milestone underscores Ursa Major’s ability to deliver flight-proven, high-performing, reusable propulsion and defense systems at the speed and scale required for national security environment. Several of the 10 flights were conducted using previously…
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Open Cosmos Partners with Ubotica Technologies to Bring AI into Orbit
Open Cosmos, the company building satellites to understand and connect the world, has partnered with Ubotica Technologies to bring advanced artificial intelligence into orbit through collaboration on the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous Measurement (FAME) – a project led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The collaboration will see two of Open Cosmos’ operational satellites, equipped…
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Vantor and Ecopia AI Deliver 300 Million Building Vectors in India
Consumer-grade maps only work if their vector data, the 2D and 3D building footprints, road centerlines and land cover features that consumers interact with reflects the world as it exists. But producing accurate, interoperable building footprints at a national scale has traditionally required a tradeoff between quality, cost and speed. Vantor and Ecopia AI recently…
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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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Little Place Labs Advances Space Intelligence with Orbitfy for Real-Time Satellite Data Processing
Little Place Labs is expanding the space technology portfolio with the Orbitfy Suite, an integrated, end-to-end solution designed to transform how satellite data is processed, transmitted and utilized. Built at the intersection of space systems, artificial intelligence and edge computing, the Orbitfy platform enables faster, more efficient delivery of actionable insights from Earth Observation (EO)…
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Astrobotic Sets Milestone for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Hot Fire
Astrobotic announced the successful hot fire test of its Chakram rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Two Chakram engine prototypes completed eight successful hot-fire tests, accumulating more than 470 seconds of total run time without any discernible damage to the engine hardware. The campaign included a…
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Kongsberg Satellite Services and Kongsberg NanoAvionics Launch End-to-End Satellite Solution
Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) and Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) have announced their strategic partnership to simplify mission deployment and lower the operational and financial burden for satellite owners. By combining NanoAvionics’ high-performance small satellite platforms with KSAT’s global ground infrastructure and operational expertise, the companies will deliver integrated, end-to-end satellite mission services. It will give satellite…
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CesiumAstro Selected to Support GMD Interceptor Communications for Missile Defense Agency
CesiumAstro, a leader in advanced space communications, has been awarded a contract to deliver a new active phased array variant as part of an expansion to its Skylark product line. This large-aperture array, built on CesiumAstro’s scalable active phased array architecture, will support modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS), a critical…
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Benchmark Space Systems Selected by DARPA to Conduct LASSO Feasibility Study
Benchmark Space Systems has been selected to conduct a Phase 1A/1B feasibility and design study under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO) program. The study will evaluate the technologies and spacecraft architectures required to operate safely and persistently in low lunar orbit (LLO), one of the most…