Tag: Launch
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Valkyrie Creates History with First-Ever Knowledge Graph Database on the Moon
Valkyrie, a leading applied sciences lab, has announced a groundbreaking achievement in space technology: the launch of the first-ever knowledge graph database beyond Earth’s atmosphere. On February 26, 2025, Valkyrie’s revolutionary knowledge graph technology will embark on its journey to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machine’s IM-2 Mission as a part of the Athena Mission Launch from…
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Marotta Controls Delivers 50,000th CoRe Series Solenoid Valve to Rocket Lab
Marotta Controls, a rapidly growing aerospace and defense supplier, announced a significant milestone with the delivery of its 50,000th CoRe Flow Control valve to Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems. Developed by Marotta and launched in 2018, the CoRe product line features a series of commercially available and reusable solenoid…
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NASA to Host Briefings on Expedition 73 and Upcoming Crew Missions to ISS
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming Expedition 73 mission aboard the International Space Station during news conferences on Monday, Feb. 24, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission leadership will participate in an overview news conference at 2 p.m. EST on NASA+, covering preparations for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 launch in March and…
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Columbia Sportswear and Intuitive Machines Expands Partnership for Next Lunar Mission
Columbia Sportswear continues to test the limits of its innovative technologies by expanding its partnership with space exploration company Intuitive Machines ahead of its historic second lunar launch later this month. Columbia’s Omni-Heat Infinity and Omni-Shade Sun Deflector technologies will help protect the lander from the extreme cold and hot temperatures in space and on…
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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of SPHEREx and PUNCH Mission Launch
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer), the agency’s newest space telescope. This will lift off with another NASA mission, Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH, which will study the Sun’s solar wind. The…
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SuperSharp Selects NanoAvionics’ Microsatellite Platform for Blue Moon Mission
UK-based SuperSharp, part of the Satlantis group, has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite platform for a first-of-its-kind Thermal InfraRed (TIR) mission called Blue Moon. The mission will embark SuperSharp’s flagship instrument HIBISCUS, an 80kg payload, onboard NanoAvionics’ flight-proven MP42 satellite bus. The launch is scheduled for the second half of 2026 onboard a SpaceX’s Transporter rideshare service.…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 60th Electron to Deploy BlackSky’s First Gen-3 Satellite
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its 60th Electron to deploy the next satellite in the Earth-imaging satellite constellation of real-time space-based intelligence company BlackSky. The ‘Fasten Your Space Belts’ mission lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 12:17 NZDT on…
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AAC Clyde Commences INFLECION Project for Maritime Ecosystem
AAC Clyde Space has announced the start of the INFLECION project, a transformative initiative made possible by a newly signed 0.85 MEUR (approx. 9.5 MSEK) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). This order covers the first phase, which will be completed by the end of 2025. This marks the beginning of a project that…
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US-Japan Space Collaboration Advances with Successful Launch of QZSS-6 Satellite
A U.S. space domain awareness payload hosted on Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 6 successfully launched on a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on February 2. This is the first bilateral U.S.-Japan cooperative space effort focused on national security, and the first…
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K2 Space Secures $110M Series B Funding and Completes First In-Space Demonstration
K2 Space announced its $110 million Series B to ramp up mass production of its multi-orbit, high power satellite platform. The funding round, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Altimeter Capital, includes participation from existing investors Alpine Space Ventures, First Round Capital, and others. This milestone comes as K2 celebrates the opening of its new…