Tag: Ground
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Eutelsat Procures 340 OneWeb Low Earth Orbit Satellites From Airbus
Eutelsat has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a contract to build a further 340 OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Together with the previous batch of 100 satellites procured in December 2024, the total number of satellites ordered is up to 440. The satellites will be manufactured at Airbus Defence and Space’s Toulouse facility on…
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Okapi Orbits Expands Soteria Services for Space Traffic Coordination and Orbital Risk Management
Okapi Orbits, a provider of space traffic management and orbital safety solutions, highlights Okapi Soteria, the space situational awareness and traffic coordination service designed to support safe, compliant and sustainable satellite operations. Soteria addresses the practical challenges of collision avoidance, regulatory compliance and operational decision-making throughout a satellite’s mission lifecycle. Okapi Soteria is built to…
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HawkEye 360 Launches Cluster 13 and Establishes Initial Communications
HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, announced the successful launch of its latest satellite trio, Cluster 13, and confirmed initial communications with the satellites. Cluster 13, integrated via Exolaunch, launched into a sun-synchronous orbit as part of the Twilight rideshare mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This successful deployment…
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Exolaunch Deploys 22 Satellites on SpaceX’s First Dawn-Dusk Rideshare
Exolaunch, a global leader in launch mission management, satellite integration and deployment services, has successfully deployed 22 customer satellites on SpaceX‘s Twilight rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Launch occurred from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 05:44 PT (14:44 CET). As Exolaunch’s first mission of 2026 and 42nd overall, the launch highlights the…
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Opterus Research and Development Expands Space Services and Engineering Capabilities
Opterus Research and Development highlights the space services and technical capabilities, underscoring the company’s role in supporting government, defense and commercial space programs with applied research, engineering development and system-level integration. Opterus Research and Development is an established provider of mission-focused engineering solutions, delivering hardware, software and analytical support across the full lifecycle of space…
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Dhruva Space Announces Polar Access-1 Programme to Enable 10 Missions on ISRO’s PSLV-C62
Dhruva Space has announced Polar Access-1 (PA-1), its most integrated and infrastructure-led launch programme to date, through which the company is enabling 10 Space missions serving 6 Indian States and 2 Nations, aboard ISRO’s PSLV-DL-C62, launched at 10:17 am IST on Monday, 12 January 2026, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Polar Access by…
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Mitsubishi Corporation Becomes Foundational Customer of Starlab Commercial Space Station
Starlab Space LLC announced that Mitsubishi Corporation has reserved and pre-purchased capacity on Starlab’s commercial space station, becoming a foundational customer while simultaneously increasing its investment in the company and joining Starlab’s Board of Directors through representative Issei Shinohara. The expanded partnership includes the acquisition of usage rights for designated payload volume and the utilization…
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Planet Labs Signs 9-Figure Deal with Sweden
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced a multi-year low-9-figure agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces to rapidly deliver a suite of satellites, space-based data and awareness solutions to support the country’s peace and security operations. This agreement marks Planet’s third Satellite Services contract in twelve…
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mPower Technology Highlights Advanced Space Power Technologies for Satellite Missions
mPower Technology, a US-based developer of advanced power and energy solutions, highlights the space technology portfolio designed to address the growing power-generation and power-management demands of modern satellite missions. The company’s technologies are already in use across aerospace and defense programs and are engineered to meet the strict size, weight, performance and reliability requirements of…
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Ursa Major and Teledyne Partners to Enhance Hypersonic Missile Defence Systems
Ursa Major has been added as a key partner for Teledyne Brown Engineering’s (Teledyne) prime contract under US Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Design, Development, Demonstration, and Integration (D3I) Domain 1 Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity. The D3I IDIQ contract vehicle funds threat representative ballistic and hypersonic target vehicles that are integral for missile defense…