Tag: Launch
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ESA’s Sentinel-2C Satellite Arrives at European Spaceport for Liftoff on Final Vega Rocket
The Sentinel-2C satellite, the third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, has arrived at the European spaceport in French Guiana for liftoff on the final Vega rocket in September. Sentinel-2C, like its predecessors, will continue to provide high-quality data for Copernicus – the Earth observation component of the EU Space Program. After road transportation from the Airbus facilities…
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Morpheus Space Opens New Mass Production Facility for Space Systems in Dresden, Germany
Morpheus Space, one of the leading providers of space mobility solutions, opened the first mass production facility for space systems in Dresden, Germany. The new “Reloaded” facility will initially manufacture 100 units of the GO-2 per year, Morpheus Space’s second-generation electric propulsion system aimed at addressing the urgent demand for mobility by the rising number of…
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Orbex Establishes New London Base and Expands Headquarters in Scotland
Orbex, one of the leading orbital launch services companies, is to set up a base in London while also expanding its headquarters in Scotland. Orbex will become the first UK rocket manufacturer to establish a base in London. The new office will enable Orbex to connect with London’s financial communities with greater ease while growing…
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Frontgrade’s 2 Gbit Dual Quad SPI MRAM Achieves NASA’s Space-Flight Qualification
Frontgrade Technologies, one of the leading providers of mission critical electronics for aerospace and defense, announced that its high-density 2Gbit Dual Quad SPI Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) offering has successfully obtained flight-grade production through NASA’s PEM INST-001 Level 2 qualification standard for plastic-encapsulated microcircuits. This achievement further validates this new MRAM’s reliability and assurance as…
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SpiderOak in Collaboration with Axiom Space Demonstrates Rust Enabled OrbitSecure Platform on ISS
SpiderOak, one of the leaders in zero-trust space cybersecurity solutions, has announced the successful demonstration of their next generation OrbitSecure software module re-written in the memory safe programming language Rust with protocol design formally proven via the Alloy specification language on the International Space Station (ISS). This demonstrates key modern cybersecurity requirements called for by…
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NASA Selects SpaceX to Provide Launch Services for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) to provide launch services for NOAA’s JPSS-4 mission. The spacecraft is part of the multi-satellite cooperative Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program, a partnership between NASA and NOAA. This mission is the next satellite in the program,…
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Planet Awarded a Contract by International Government Agency for SkySat Satellite Data
Planet Labs PBC, one of the leading providers of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that it has signed a seven-figure contract expansion with a US-allied International Government Agency for SkySat high resolution satellite data. Planet’s SkySat fleet offers multiple revisits per day of anyplace on the globe with up to 50 centimeter resolution…
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Orbit Fab Secures £1.3 Million UK Space Agency Grant to Develop High-Pressure RAFTI Refueling Port
The UK Space Agency has awarded Orbit Fab a £1.3 million Major Project grant under their National Space Innovation Program. This grant will fund the design of a high-pressure variant of the RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable Fuel Transfer Interface) refuelling port, set to be available in 2025. This new variant will enable refuelling with pressurised fuels…
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Astroscale UK Receives $15 Million Contract for Final Phase of ELSA-M In-Orbit Demonstration
Astroscale, the UK subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability, has secured EUR 13.95 million (approximately USD 15 million or GBP 11.78 million) from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency to support the final phase of the End-of-Life by Astroscale-Multiple (ELSA-M) in-orbit demonstration. The funding…
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Thales Alenia Space Receives Funding from French Government for Carb-Chaser Project
Thales Alenia Space, a global space manufacturer, has been awarded French government funding to develop the Carb-Chaser project as part of the France 2030 stimulus plan. The funding was allocated following a call for projects to support the investments needed to develop and produce new components, systems and subsystems for satellite constellations and their enabling…