Tag: Launch
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IonQ Launches Commercial InSAR for Automated Millimeter-Precise Earth Monitoring
IonQ, the world’s leading quantum technology company, announced the commercial launch of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities through its space missions line. The offering enables millimetre-precision ground deformation monitoring with fully automated tasking and data delivery, enabling customers to detect and track physical change on the Earth’s surface consistently, at a frequency and scale…
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EarthDaily Launches Six Satellites to Advance Daily Global Planetary Change Measurement
EarthDaily Analytics announced the successful launch of six EarthDaily Constellation satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission, confirming initial contact with satellites EDC-02 through EDC-07. The milestone significantly advances the company’s goal of delivering daily, consistent measurement of planetary change at a global scale. The launch, executed on May 3, 2026, delivered all six…
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OroraTech Launches Greece’s Wildfire Monitoring Satellite System
OroraTech, the global leader in space-based wildfire intelligence, announced the successful launch and deployment of the Hellenic Fire System, four dedicated wildfire monitoring satellites for Greece, marking the world’s first national satellite system designed exclusively for wildfire detection and tracking. The satellites were launched with SpaceX via Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Developed for…
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Interlune Awarded $6.9 Million Contract from NASA for Lunar Resource Development
Interlune, a natural resources company, announced a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III project with NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Game Changing Development (GCD) program for a lunar resource development effort. The sole-source contract is for a firm-fixed-price of $6.9 million over the next 18 months to develop a payload suite that will…
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Pixxel to Launch India’s First Orbital Data Centre Satellite
Pixxel, a planetary intelligence company that builds and operates some of the world’s most advanced imaging satellites, announced a strategic partnership with Sarvam to develop and build India’s first orbital data centre satellite. Under the partnership, Pixxel will design, build, launch and operate the Pathfinder satellite. Sarvam will provide the AI backbone, handling both training…
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Planet Labs Launches Three Additional High-Resolution Pelican Satellites
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced the successful launch of three additional Pelican satellites, one of which is the first satellite to orbit as part of the recently announced satellite services agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF). The spacecraft were launched to orbit aboard the…
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Planet Labs and Carbon Mapper Sign Agreement for New Tanager Spacecraft
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced its plans to design a specialized version of the Tanager spacecraft. Together with Carbon Mapper, and with support from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Planet plans to architect this cutting-edge spacecraft as a specialized iteration of Tanager, designed to solely…
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Morpheus Space Advances Satellite Mobility with GO-2 Electric Propulsion System
Morpheus Space is strengthening the position in satellite propulsion with the GO-2 electric propulsion system, a modular and highly redundant solution designed to support a wide range of mission profiles. Headquartered in California, USA, the company focuses on scalable propulsion technologies that enable efficient satellite mobility across Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond. GO-2 is…
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Rocket Lab Introduces High-Accuracy Star Tracker for Radiation-Intense Environments
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced its next-generation High-Performance Star Tracker (ST-HP), designed to improve key performance metrics for longer duration spacecraft missions in low Earth orbit and beyond. The High-Performance Star Tracker combines enhanced resilience with a targeted pointing accuracy of better than 1 arcsecond, ideal for…
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Loft Orbital Expands On-Orbit AI Capabilities with Virtual Mission Platform
Loft Orbital is advancing space-based computing through the on-orbit AI technology and virtual mission platform, enabling customers to develop, test and deploy applications directly in space without the need to build or launch dedicated hardware. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, the company integrates sensing, compute and connectivity resources into a unified satellite infrastructure, supporting…