Tag: Launch
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Arabsat Selects Telesat Lightspeed LEO Services for its Multi-Orbit Connectivity Portfolio
Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat), the top satellite service provider in the Arab world, announced the companies have successfully negotiated and signed a Term Sheet for a multi-Gbps capacity pool of Telesat Lightspeed connectivity services. The companies executed the agreement today during a…
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UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory: Redefining Small Satellite Capabilities for Global Space Missions
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory, Established in 1998, is a research center within the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, located in Toronto, Canada. SFL specializes in the design, development, and operation of low-cost, high-performance small satellites, including micro- and nanosatellites. With a mission to make space more accessible, SFL has contributed to over 84…
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Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird. Ars published a story a few months ago on spaceflight patches from NASA, SpaceX, Russia, and the NRO, the US government’s spy satellite agency, which is responsible for…
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Viasat and Blue Origin to Partner on Launch Telemetry Demonstration for NASA CSP
Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications (SATCOM), announced it has selected Blue Origin as its launch mission partner to support Viasat’s demonstration of its InRange launch telemetry relay service as part of its work with NASA’s Communications Services Project (CSP). Viasat’s Space and Mission Systems team, part of the company’s Defense and Advanced Technologies…
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Venus Aerospace Completes Historic US Hypersonic Engine Flight Test
Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup pioneering the future of high-speed flight, announced it completed the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rocket engine: a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE). This milestone marks a breakthrough in American aerospace, with a design ultimately aimed at enabling vehicles to travel four to six times the speed of…
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The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch
The payload fairing at the top of Gilmour Space’s first Eris rocket was supposed to deploy a few minutes after lifting off from northeastern Australia. Instead, the nose cone fell off the rocket hours before it was supposed to leave the launch pad Thursday. Gilmour, the Australian startup that developed the Eris rocket, announced the…
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NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Aspera SmallSat Mission for Galaxy Research
NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This contract allows the agency to make…
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York Space Systems Bard Mission Ready for Launch to Test Advanced Communications for NASA
York Space Systems, the Denver-based aerospace company dedicated to the rapid deployment of complete space mission solutions, announced that its Bard mission is ready for launch. Bard will flight-demonstrate the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT), an advanced communications technology developed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and…
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Apex Space: Transforming Satellite Bus Manufacturing for the Future of Space Exploration
Founded in 2022, Apex Space is a Los Angeles-based aerospace company specializing in satellite bus manufacturing. The company aims to revolutionize spacecraft production by offering standardized, high-rate configurable satellite bus platforms that cater to commercial and government space missions. Apex collaborates with leading space agencies and private firms to accelerate satellite deployment, ensuring rapid delivery…
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Intuitive Machines: Pioneering the Lunar Frontier to Power Humanity’s Future in Space
Intuitive Machines was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, as a hub for space innovation due to its proximity to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Intuitive Machines aims to open access to the Moon for the progress of humanity by providing lunar surface access, payload delivery, data transmission services, and lunar infrastructure. The…