Tag: Launch
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ispace Announces Mission 2 Launch with RESILIENCE Lunar Lander and TENACIOUS Rover
To mark Japan’s national Space Day, ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, announced that its Mission 2, featuring the RESILIENCE lunar lander and TENACIOUS micro rover, is now planned to launch no earlier than December 2024. The press conference held at the Tsukuba Research Support Center in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan, ispace released multiple…
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Rocket Report: China leaps into rocket reuse; 19 people are currently in orbit
Welcome to Edition 7.11 of the Rocket Report! Outside of companies owned by American billionaires, the most imminent advancements in reusable rockets are coming from China’s quasi-commercial launch industry. This industry is no longer nascent. After initially relying on solid-fueled rocket motors apparently derived from Chinese military missiles, China’s privately funded launch firms are testing…
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Polaris Dawn Crew Completes First Commercial Spacewalk in Newly-Designed SpaceX EVA Suits
The Polaris Dawn crew, after launching into space earlier this week, completed the first commercial spacewalk at 7:58 am EDT today. Wearing newly designed SpaceX extravehicular activity (EVA) suits, the crew began their approximately two-hour operation at 5:12 a.m. EDT while traveling at 17,500 miles per hour in an elliptical orbit of 190 x 700…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Equips Its Solar Arrays After Testing
NASA‘s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft sits in a clean room in August 2024 after undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. Now that those tests are done, the orbiter and its science instruments will go through flight system software tests that simulate key aspects of launch, maneuvers, and the science mission while in…
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Comtech Introduces Digital Common Ground Modem Product Line for DoD and Coalition Partners
Comtech, a global technology company, announced the launch of the Company’s new Digital Common Ground (“DCG”) portfolio of modems. Comtech’s DCG product line is designed to enable the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”) and coalition partners to move to digitized, hybrid satellite network architectures, which will bring forward a new era of secure, resilient, interoperable,…
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Sidus Space Secures New Contract for NASA’s ASTRA Project
Sidus Space, a provider of end-to-end precision Space Infrastructure solutions that include satellite Data-as-a-Service on its proprietary on-orbit platform, is pleased to announce the award of a follow on contract from NASA Stennis for additional ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications) support aboard LizzieSat-1. A key component of the additional objectives is collecting onboard data…
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Astroscale Secures Contract for Next Phase of UK Active Debris Removal Mission
Astroscale Ltd., the UK subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings, the company in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, has been awarded a GBP £1.95 million contract by the UK Space Agency to continue development of its Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture (COSMIC) spacecraft. COSMIC is Astroscale’s solution for a UK national…
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NASA Selects Satellogic for Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program
Satellogic, a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation data,has announced its selection as one of eight recipients of NASA‘s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program (CSDA) On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract, with a maximum cumulative value of $476 million for all award winners. This award, announced on September 6, 2024, highlights Satellogic’s commitment to delivering high-quality Earth…
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Boeing Advances Quantum Communications Technology with In-Space Test Satellite Initiative
Boeing announced the scheduled 2026 launch of a satellite – dubbed Q4S – which is designed to demonstrate quantum entanglement swapping capabilities in orbit. This Boeing-funded, first-of-its-kind space mission brings humanity closer to building a secure, global quantum internet that connects quantum sensors and computers. Quantum sensors are much more precise than today’s state-of-the-art instruments…
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SpaceX says regulators will keep Starship grounded until at least November
The Federal Aviation Administration has signaled to SpaceX that it won’t approve a launch license for the next test flight of the Starship rocket until at least late November, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. This is more than two months later than the mid-September timeframe the FAA previously targeted for determining whether…