Tag: Launch
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EnerSys ABSL Battery Launched Onboard NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission
EnerSys, the global company in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, is proud to announce that its ABSL lithium-ion space battery was successfully launched onboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. The launch took place on October 14, 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission was led by…
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NASA and SpaceX Set Launch for 31st Resupply Mission to ISS on November 4
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 9:29 p.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 4, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the agency’s 31st SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory. Filled with nearly 6,000 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon…
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Colt Technology and Rivada Partner to Launch Next-Gen Satellite Connectivity by 2026
Colt Technology Services, a global digital infrastructure company, is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to provide a unique next-generation connectivity network with the necessary speed, security, and performance to drive digital innovation and transformation, Rivada Space Networks announces the first satellite launch is planned for 2025, with services targeted to start in 2026. Established in…
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Lockheed Martin Expands Space Capabilities through Strategic Terran Orbital Acquisition
Lockheed Martin, a global defense technology company driving innovation and advancing scientific discovery, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Terran Orbital, a leading manufacturer of innovative modular spacecraft serving the global aerospace and defense industries, and its subsidiary, Tyvak International. Lockheed Martin has worked with Terran Orbital on projects including Space Development Agency programs…
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Apex Selected for Space Development Agency’s HALO Program
Apex, the provider company of productized satellite bus platforms, has been selected to participate in the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program, SDA Director Derek Tournear announced. HALO creates a pathway for SDA to solicit and award rapid feasibility demonstrations. As a HALO participant, Apex will be eligible to compete…
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Southwest Research Institute Expands Spacecraft EMC/EMI Testing with New Chamber
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has added a semi-anechoic shielded enclosure for electromagnetic compatibility and interference (EMC/EMI) testing for spacecraft. The test chamber is the next step in SwRI’s plans to create a turnkey spacecraft integration and test center within its 74,000-square-foot Space System Spacecraft and Payload Processing Facility. The 400-square-foot EMC/EMI Chamber is semi-anechoic, or free…
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Holt Introduces Radiation-Hardened HI-1592 Dual Transceiver for High-Reliability Space Applications
Holt Integrated Circuits announced the introduction of HI-1592, a radiation-hardened 3.3V MIL-STD-1553 dual transceiver for high reliability and space applications. Holt has been a supplier of MIL-STD-1553 IP, protocol, transceiver, and transformer components to the military and aerospace industries for over 20 years and this new product offering provides additional robustness for demanding Hi-Rel applications…
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Redwire Supports Successful Launch of X-Bow’s Bolt Rocket with 3D-Printed Solid Rocket Motor
Redwire have taken part in the launch of X-Bow Systems’ latest Bolt Rocket design. X-Bow’s Commercial Mission-1 (CM-1) mission launched from White Sands Missile Range on September 12, 2024. The CM-1 mission is the latest iteration in X-Bow’s launch vehicle designs and uses lessons learned from its previous XL-2 missions that launched in the summers…
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National Reconnaissance Office Launches NROL-167 Proliferated Constellation Mission
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-167 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 24, 2024 at 1:13 p.m. EDT. This mission is the fourth launch of…
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While ULA studies Vulcan booster anomaly, it’s also investigating fairing issues
A little more than a year ago, a snippet of video that wasn’t supposed to go public made its way onto United Launch Alliance’s live broadcast of an Atlas V rocket launch carrying three classified surveillance satellites for the US Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. On these types of secretive national security missions,…