Tag: Launch
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Maxar Intelligence’s WorldView Legion Satellites Performing Well After SpaceX Launch
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence, confirmed the first two WorldView Legion satellites are performing well after being launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket earlier from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Shortly after launch, the satellites deployed their solar arrays and began receiving and sending signals. These satellites will undergo commissioning,…
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Kuva Space Secures €1.8M Contract to Join ESA’s Civil Security from Space Program
Kuva Space, a Finnish hyperspectral satellite and AI-powered insights company, has been awarded a €1.8M contract to participate in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Civil Security from Space (CSS) program to provide advanced hyperspectral situational awareness information for monitoring and mitigating civil security and crisis events. Within the three-year R&D program, Kuva Space will test…
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BAE Systems Selected by NASA to Develop Air Quality Instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO Program
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to monitor air quality and provide information about the impact of air pollutants on Earth for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract…
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Arianespace Signs Contract with ESA to Launch SMILE Mission on Vega C Launcher
Arianespace signed a launch contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the deployment of the SMILE (Solar-wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission, a joint ESA-Science and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) initiative that aims to better understand our solar system. SMILE is designed to study the Earth’s magnetic environment, specifically its interaction with solar…
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Exolaunch Successfully Deploys ACS3 Satellite for NASA
Exolaunch, the global provider of launch mission management, integration, and satellite deployment services, has provided its industry-leading deployment services for NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) satellite aboard Rocket Lab’s “Beginning of the Swarm” mission. The liftoff occurred on April 23 at 1000 NZT / 2200 UTC from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia,…
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Blue Origin Selects ATLAS Space Operations to Provide Support for Blue Ring DarkSky-1 Mission
Blue Origin has selected ATLAS Space Operations, the largest U.S.-owned and operated federated ground network, to provide ground segment support for their upcoming Blue Ring mission, DarkSky-1. Announced in October 2023, Blue Ring provides end-to-end services that span hosting, transportation, refueling, data relay, and logistics in medium earth orbits (MEO), geostationary orbits (GEO), lunar orbits,…
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Virgin Galactic Announces Flight Window for ‘Galactic 07’ Spaceflight Mission
Virgin Galactic Holdings, announced the ‘Galactic 07’ flight window will open on June 8, 2024. This will be the Company’s second spaceflight this year and 12th to date. Virgin Galactic’s spaceship will again be converted into a suborbital science lab, with VSS Unity carrying an Axiom Space affiliated researcher astronaut who will conduct multiple human-tended…
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Skylo Certifies Sony’s Altair ALT1250 Chipset for Operation with its Satellite Network
Skylo Technologies, the pioneer in satellite network connectivity, announced the certification of Sony Semiconductor Israel’s (Sony) ALT1250 chipset as part of the Skylo Certification Program. All devices incorporating the chipset will seamlessly support both cellular and native satellite connectivity without requiring the user to manually switch between the two. Connectivity plans and devices are available through…
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Portal Space Systems Secures $3 Million Space Force Award to Launch Supernova Satellite Bus
Portal Space Systems, a Seattle-based space startup, announced its emergence from stealth with over $3 million in funding from the Department of Defense and Space Force to support the development and launch of its revolutionary Supernova satellite bus. Led by industry veteran Jeff Thornburg, architect of SpaceX’s Raptor engine, former head of Mechanical Engineering &…
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Arianespace Selected to Launch Second-Generation Galileo Satellites on Ariane 6
The European Commission and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) will entrust Arianespace with the launch of four new satellites for the Galileo navigation constellation. This order brings to five the total number of launches scheduled onboard Ariane 6 for Europe’s ultra-high performance Galileo satellite navigation system: the last three launches of…