Tag: Ground
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 34th Electron Rocket and Second Mission from Virginia Launch Site
Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, announced it has successfully launched its 34th Electron rocket and second mission from its launch site on Wallops Island, Virginia deploying two spacecraft to low Earth orbit for Capella Space. The “Stronger Together” mission lifted off at 22:38 UTC, March 16, 2023, from…
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Ursa Major to Provide Hadley Rocket Engines for Vector Launch’s US National Security Mission
Ursa Major, one of America’s leading privately funded companies focused solely on rocket propulsion, announced an agreement with launch provider Vector Launch to support Vector’s recently awarded U.S. national security contract. Ursa Major will supply several 5,000-pound thrust “Hadley” engines to power the main stage of Vector-R launch vehicles to demonstrate capabilities for future missions.…
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Boeing’s Powerful Satellite Platform Delivered to Network Provider Viasat
Boeing delivered the most powerful satellite platform the company has built to date, the 702MP+, a custom-designed spacecraft for network provider Viasat. “Working with Boeing, we’re very excited to complete the ViaSat-3 Americas and bring us one step closer to providing higher speeds, more bandwidth, and greater value to our customers on a global scale whether…
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Benchmark Space Systems Ramps Up Production of Metal Plasma and Bi-Propellant Thrusters
Laser-focused on delivering mobility without compromise, Benchmark Space Systems announced that it has signed contracts for nearly two dozen new electric metal plasma thrusters (MPTs), with some set to play a key role in upcoming, unnamed in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) satellite docking demonstration missions. The bulk of Benchmark’s first MPT orders will be…
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SES-18 and SES-19 Satellites Built by Northrop Grumman Successfully Launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket
SES announced that the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites, designed and assembled by Northrop Grumman, were successfully launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 7:38 pm local time on Friday, March 17. The two American-made satellites are the fourth and fifth – and final – satellites…
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Gilat Announces Certification of its SkyEdge IV Platform by SES for O3b mPOWER, O3b and SES-17
Gilat Satellite Networks, one of the world leaders in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, announced that SES has certified the SkyEdge IV platform for O3b mPOWER, O3b, and SES-17. By virtue of this certification, Gilat’s high-speed, highly reliable next-generation SkyEdge IV platform is now the industry’s first GEO-MEO multi-orbit certified system. “After the completion…
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Kythera Space Solutions Partners with Airbus to Develop Mission Sizing Software for OneSat
Kythera Space Solutions, one of the leading providers of dynamic management systems for next-generation payloads and SATCOM networks, has partnered with Airbus Defence and Space to develop advanced payload mission sizing software for Airbus’ OneSat Software-Defined Satellite (SDS). The new OneSize product enables OneSat satellite customers to quickly plan, optimize, and evaluate the performance of…
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HawkEye 360 to Begin Operations of Sixth Satellite Cluster
HawkEye 360 announced the beginning of operations of its Cluster 6 satellites. The rapidly growing constellation can collect up to 24 times per day over a region of interest, as often as once every hour. The enhanced payloads and an additional ground station optimize the speed for delivering increased quantity and quality of data to customers…
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Rivada to Use Aalyria’s Spacetime Platform for its LEO Constellation
Aalyria which launched late last year after acquiring key networking and communications technology developed over decades within Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Rivada Space Networks (RSN) has entered into an agreement to use Aalyria’s Spacetime platform to orchestrate the network for Rivada’s planned LEO constellation. Rivada’s constellation will consist of 600 satellites interconnected…
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Intelsat To Operate First Space-Based Air Pollution Monitoring Space Instrument
Intelsat has completed testing of the operational and data collection system for the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent every daylight hour at high resolution. The new UV-visible spectrometer, operated by Intelsat for NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will be hosted on the Intelsat 40e (IS-40e) satellite…