Tag: Launch
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Astranis Partners with Orbith to Launch a Dedicated MicroGEO Satellite for Argentina
Astranis has announced its new partnership with Orbith, a fast-growing, Latin American Internet Service Provider, to provide a dedicated MicroGEO communications satellite for Argentina. This deal is an exciting opportunity in a country that has proven its openness to disruptive technologies and ideas. This new partnership with Orbith is a great opportunity to expand Astranis…
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UK Space Agency to Open New Headquarters in Harwell Science Campus Space Cluster
The UK Space Agency is opening new headquarters in Harwell, Oxfordshire, and regional offices in Scotland, Wales, and the Midlands as it works to support the space sector across the UK. Aligned with the government’s Levelling Up strategy, the expansion will enable the Agency to collaborate more closely with the UK’s thriving space sector, while…
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Astrobotic’s Xodiac Completes First Night Flight in Preparation for NASA’s TechLeap Challenge
Astrobotic’s Propulsion & Test department flew Xodiac, a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL) reusable terrestrial rocket, for its first-ever night flight. The tethered night test prepared Xodiac for upcoming flight testing with the NASA TechLeap Prize’s Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge, managed by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program. TechLeap is designed to rapidly identify and develop technologies of interest…
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Apex Releases Satellite Selfie Following Successful First Payload Commissioning
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, released its “satellite selfie,” an image taken by its Aries SN1 spacecraft. The photograph was taken by a payload owned by Apex, which completed commissioning last week. The image was taken by a camera mounted on the satellite bus’s payload deck. The camera captures one of the deployed solar…
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NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson and Crewmates Launch to the International Space Station
Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson successfully launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT on March 23, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Dyson, along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, will dock to the space station’s Prichal module at…
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Startical to Test its Air Traffic Surveillance Systems on NanoAvionics-Built Satellite
Startical, the company created by ENAIRE, Europe’s fourth-largest air navigation services provider, and Indra, a technological company and one of the world’s leading providers of air traffic systems, will use a satellite produced by Kongsberg NanoAvionics, a leading small satellite company, and mission integrator, to test the systems of its future constellation of over 270…
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NASA Science and Hardware Launch Aboard SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Mission to the ISS
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are on the way to the International Space Station, including studies of technologies to measure sea ice and plant growth in space. SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the…
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NEC and Skyloom to Revolutionize Space Communications with 100 Gbps Optical Terminals
NEC Corporation and Skyloom Global Corporation have joined forces to revolutionize space communications with the development of cutting-edge optical communication equipment for multi-orbit satellite networks. The collaboration aims to commercialize and make available on the open market one of the world’s fastest space optical terminals, achieving remarkable high-speed inter-satellite communications of 100 Gbps and more, propelling…
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Firefly Aerospace Selected by Defense Innovation Unit to Demonstrate Launch and On-Orbit Services
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to conduct a trade study on its capabilities to rapidly launch Firefly’s Elytra vehicles and support missions beyond Geosynchronous Orbit, referred to as xGEO. Once complete, the trade study will provide the groundwork for…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches NROL-123 Mission for National Reconnaissance Office
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, successfully launched a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia. The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle at 03:25 EDT on March 21,…