Tag: Launch
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Apex Achieves Historic Success with the Launch of First Production Unit of Flagship Aries Bus
Apex Space, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, announced the confirmed success of Aries SN1, their first production build of Apex’s productized ESPA-class satellite bus. After launching on SpaceX’s Falcon-9 on March 4, Apex’s vehicle is communicating bidirectionally with its ground stations and is healthy. Apex specializes in building productized satellite buses, starting with their…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat Successfully Launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare Mission
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company announced its LizzieSat satellite has successfully launched and deployed to low Earth orbit as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission. Liftoff occurred at 2:05 p.m. PDT on 3 March 2024, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The successful deployment…
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Olsen Actuators and Drives to Showcase SuperNova Servo Drive at Space-Comm Expo 2024
Olsen Actuators and Drives, one of the leading manufacturers and providers of COTS, customized and bespoke space-certified motion control products will introduce its SuperNova servo drive at Space-Comm Expo 2024, to be held in Farnborough from 6-7 March. The event, which gathers space, aerospace, defense, downstream and upstream industries highlights the end-to-end supply chain for…
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Terran Orbital Awarded $15.2 Million US Space Force Contract to Supply Satellite Platforms
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced it was awarded a $15.2 million contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms complete with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL. The contract, managed through Axient Corporation, will integrate payloads…
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ICEYE Launches Three New SAR Satellites Strengthening its Earth Observation Capabilities
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring and natural catastrophe solutions, successfully launched three additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites on March 4, 2024, including a 1200 MHz radar bandwidth in-orbit technology demonstrator that will enable 25 cm imaging. The satellites were integrated via launch integrator Exolaunch and successfully lifted off aboard SpaceX’s…
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MethaneSAT Enters Orbit Following SpaceX’s Launch of Groundbreaking Climate Mission
Just after 4:00 pm Pacific Time on March 3, 2024, MethaneSAT effectively detached from SpaceX Transporter-10 which carried the emissions monitor into space. The groundbreaking satellite is designed to help protect the Earth’s climate by accelerating reductions of a powerful greenhouse pollutant, focusing first on oil and gas operations, a major source of methane. Developed by a…
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BrainChip Enhances Space Heritage with Launch of Akida AI Tech into Low Earth Orbit
BrainChip Holdings, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI, saw its Akida AI technology launched into low earth orbit aboard the Optimus-1 spacecraft built by the Space Machines Company. The successful launch is another milestone for BrainChip’s innovative AI acceleration solution in the burgeoning SpaceTech industry, which needs advanced…
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Axelspace Successfully Launches PYXIS Demonstration Satellite
Axelspace Corporation announced the successful launch and orbital insertion of the demonstration satellite “PYXIS,” marking another milestone in the company’s history. PYXIS was launched on March 4, 2024 (PST) on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base (California, USA). Axelspace has received the first voice transmission*1 from PYXIS. It will now proceed through the…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches to International Space Station
NASA‘s SpaceX Crew-8, an international crew of four, reached orbit following a successful launch to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the agency’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission with the company to the space station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled…
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Hello Space Inks Multi-Launch Deal with Alba Orbital to Expand PocketQube IoT Constellation
Alba Orbital, the world’s leading PocketQube launch services provider, announced the signing of a multi-launch contract with Hello Space Systems, building upon the success of Hello Space’s previous mission, ‘Istanbul’. This contract signifies a significant step forward in Hello Space’s commitment to advancing their Internet of Things (IoT) constellation. Following the successful launch of ‘Istanbul’…