Tag: Ground
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Ursa Major Announces Storable Liquid Draper Rocket Engine For Hypersonics Defense
Ursa Major, America’s privately funded company that focuses solely on rocket propulsion, is excited to introduce Draper, a revolutionary new engine designed to defend against hypersonic weapons. Draper is a storable, 4,000-pound-thrust closed catalyst cycle engine that uses storable hydrogen-peroxide/kerosene propellant, making it ideal for small hypersonic defense vehicles that need to launch on demand.…
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Rocket Lab Sets Up for Second TROPICS Launch to Deploy NASA’s Storm Monitoring Constellation
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, is preparing for the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA. This mission, named Coming To A Storm Near You, is scheduled for lift-off no earlier than 16:00 NZST on May 25th from Launch Complex 1 on…
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SETS Introduces New Power Processing Unit for LEO Satellite Applications
SETS a company that specializes in high-performance electric propulsion technology and develops the next generation of thrusters and space propulsion systems for small satellites has introduced a new Power Processing Unit for Hall Thruster. The Power Processing Unit (PPU) 500 from SETS is a power management equipment intended for LEO satellite applications and designed according…
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Spaceport Company Makes History with First Ever Commercial Launch from U.S. Territorial Waters
The Spaceport Company successfully tested its mobile floating spaceport prototype by conducting the first-ever commercial rocket launches from U.S. territorial waters. Multiple rockets were launched in one day from a modified ship located in the Gulf of Mexico. The offshore spaceport demonstration successfully tested all the procedures necessary to conduct an orbital-class launch: regulatory approvals…
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Frontgrade and Lattice Collaboration Produces Radiation-tolerant Low SWAP-C FPGA for Space Applications
The successful space grade qualification and assurance conducted by Frontgrade Technologies has yielded a radiation-tolerant, low-power FPGA tailored for space and satellite applications. Built on the award-winning Lattice Nexus platform, the Certus-NX-RT FPGA provides mission-enabling capabilities using a small footprint and delivering up to four times lower power than similar devices. These new reconfigurable, on-orbit…
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Rocket Lab Purchases Virgin Orbit’s Long Beach California Assets to Support its Neutron Rocket Program
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, announced it has been selected as a successful bidder and is finalizing an asset purchase agreement for the purchase of certain Long Beach California aerospace production and manufacturing assets from Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries in Virgin Orbit’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction.…
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Ursa Major to Provide Hypersonics and Space Launch Capabilities for Air Force Research Laboratory
Ursa Major, America’s privately funded company focused solely on rocket propulsion, announced a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to advance U.S. hyper sonics defense programs and space launch capabilities. Under the contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its new Draper engine for hyper sonics, and further develop its…
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Sierra Space Trains NASA and JAXA Astronauts for Dream Chaser Spaceplane Mission to International Space Station
Sierra Space, a pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced it has achieved another significant milestone in the journey to the first flight of Dream Chaser. The company hosted its first-ever official training for astronauts from NASA and JAXA to learn the inner workings of the world’s…
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Aphelion Orbitals Introduces New Solar Panel for Cubesats
Aphelion Orbitals, an innovative nanosatellite manufacturer and launch services provider, expanding access to space for small satellites using game-changing, ultra-low-cost reliable launch services and spacecraft has introduced a new solar panel for CubeSats. The 1U Solar Panel from Aphelion is a Cubesat solar panel that utilizes flight-proven, high-efficiency 30.5% triple junction solar cells and a…
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OneWeb’s JoeySat Satellite Successfully Deploys SatixFy’s State-of-the-Art Fully Digital Beam-Hopping Payload
SatixFy Communications, a leader in next-generation satellite communication systems based on in-house-developed chipsets, has announced that the OneWeb JoeySat satellite was successfully launched from California on Saturday, May 20, 2023. This advanced broadband satellite, designed to offer high-speed internet connectivity anywhere on Earth, has been nicknamed ‘JoeySat’ after a baby kangaroo for its beam-hopping abilities.…