Tag: Launch
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Scout Space’s Optical Payload System Successfully Captures First In-Space Image
Scout Space, one of the leading in-space observation service providers focused on space security and comprehensive Space Domain Awareness (SDA), announced its optical payload dubbed “Sparrow,” launched aboard the Apex Aries bus on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission in March 2024, has successfully completed commissioning and captured its first in-space calibration image. This achievement represents the…
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SES Launches Open Orbits Inflight Connectivity Network with Satellite Network Operators
SES announced that it has reached agreements-in-principle with several regional satellite network operators to launch the SES Open Orbits Inflight Connectivity (IFC) Network to enable seamless connectivity services to airlines around the world. This fully interoperable Ka-band platform will combine the geostationary earth orbit (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite networks of SES; NEO…
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Ursa Major Successfully Conducts Hotfire Test of its Draper Engine
Ursa Major announced the successful March hot fire of its Draper engine at the company’s headquarters in Berthoud, Colorado – a huge milestone for the liquid engine. The development of Draper was announced in May 2023, and with an ambitious goal of hot firing Draper within 12 months, the engine is well ahead of schedule,…
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HawkEye 360 Opens New Vibration Testing Facility for Testing its Satellite Clusters
HawkEye 360, one of the leading providers of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, is excited to announce the opening of a new Vibration Testing Facility within its 19,000-square-foot advanced R&D, engineering, and manufacturing facility. This new capability will be essential for vibration testing of satellite clusters, ensuring they meet the highest durability and…
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LEOcloud to Demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service Onboard the ISS
The Center for Advancement of Science in Space, who manages the International Space Station National Laboratory (through a cooperative agreement with NASA), has awarded LEOcloud a technology advancement and commercialization project to demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering onboard the orbiting outpost. LEOcloud’s “Cloud ENIAC” project scope includes the deployment and…
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INNOSPACE to Launch Brazilian Satellites and Inertial System on HANBIT-Nano Launch Vehicle
INNOSPACE, a South Korean private spaceflight startup producing small satellite launch vehicles, announced that it has signed new launch service agreements with the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) and Castro Leite Consultoria LTDA (CLC) for a rideshare launch mission on its ‘HANBIT-Nano’ launch vehicle from the Alcântara Space Center in Brazil, scheduled for the first…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1 Successfully Transmits Data to Earth Using AI Delivery Platform
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that its high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) delivery platform, FeatherEdge successfully transmitted data back down to Earth for the first time on May 24, 2024. The LizzieSat-1 mission demonstrated FeatherEdge’s ability to upload new algorithms post-launch, run a machine vision algorithm on the hardware accelerator capable…
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BAE Systems to Develop Ocean Color Instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO Constellation
BAE Systems has been selected to build the Ocean Color Instrument (OCX) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite constellation. With the selection, BAE Systems is now contracted to build all three hyperspectral instruments for the mission, including OCX, the GeoXO Sounder (GXS), and the Atmospheric Composition Instrument (ACX). …
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Momentus Awarded DARPA Contract to Support the Design of Large-Scale Space Structures
Momentus, a provider of in-space transportation services, has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed to support the design and in-space demonstration of technologies that will enable the construction of large-scale structures in space. The program, known as DARPA Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D), focuses on…
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CisLunar Industries’ 20 kV Power Supply System Earns Space Heritage
CisLunar Industries, a developer company of hardware for in-space metal processing and power conversion, announced its successful first mission to space. On May 6, 2024, ThinkOrbital successfully operated an electron-beam welding system in space. CisLunar Industries developed the system that powered the operation, a 20kV power supply that boasts industry-leading size, weight, and power (SWaP).…