Tag: Launch
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Virgin Orbit Receives UK’s First Orbital Launch License
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has issued launch and range control licenses to Virgin Orbit to undertake the first satellite launch from UK soil. The granting of these licenses represents a major step forward for the historic Start Me Up mission, and reflects the CAA’s concurrence that all reasonable steps have been taken by Virgin…
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OHB Italia and ESA Sign a Contract to Implement the Comet Interceptor Mission
OHB Italia S.p.A, a subsidiary of the German technology and space group OHB SE, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor to implement the Comet Interceptor science mission. The corresponding contract was signed in Paris. The aim of the mission is to study a long-period comet to gain new…
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GKN Aerospace Signs a Contract with ArianeGroup for Ariane 6 Rocket Engine Subsystems
GKN Aerospace has signed a contract with ArianeGroup to supply the next phase of Ariane 6 turbines and Vulcain nozzles. The contract includes the manufacturing and supply of units for the next 14 Ariane 6 launchers, to be produced from now until 2025. GKN Aerospace, at its Trollhättan site in Sweden, is currently focused on…
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HUBER+SUHNER Delivers Innovative Space Qualified Solutions
HUBER+SUHNER who has been delivering innovative passive microwave products in a number of scientific and commercial space projects for the past 15 years has demonstrated superior mechanical and functional capabilities under extreme conditions in space with their innovative products. A number of successful products for a wide range of space applications have been developed that…
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Quantum Space to Begin Expansion of QuantumNet with $15 Million Investment
Quantum Space announced that it has received a $15 million investment from Prime Movers Lab, a U.S.-based venture capital firm. The investment enables Quantum to begin the expansion of QuantumNet, a cornerstone project aimed to provide data products and digital services for customers from cislunar space. Quantum plans to close the Series A round of…
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Boeing’s Spectrolab to Power Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
As the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission begins its survey of the Earth’s surface, the satellite will get power from solar cells built by Spectrolab, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing. The SWOT satellite, targeted to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, will conduct the first global survey of water on the…
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Airbus Delivers First Sentinel-4 Air Monitoring Instrument to ESA
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be integrated into the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite next year. The instrument will continuously monitor key air quality trace gases and aerosols from geostationary orbit with…
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Meteosat MTG-I1 Successfully Launched by Ariane 5 Rocket from Europe’s Spaceport
The MTG-I1 weather satellite, built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), was successfully launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. MTG-I1 is the first imaging satellite in the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) program, designed to improve…
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Isar Aerospace and German Space Agency at Selected Payloads for Second Flight of Spectrum Launch Vehicle
At the first German Small Satellite conference, Isar Aerospace and the German Space Agency at DLR announced the selection of payloads for the second flight of the company’s launch vehicle Spectrum, planned for 2023-2024. The payloads have been selected in the process of the Microlauncher competition, which included an Announcement of Opportunity for European payloads…
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SES’s First Two O3b mPOWER Satellites Successfully Launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
SES announced that the first two O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. Built by Boeing and designed to deliver unprecedented performance with a first-of-its-kind software-driven payload, O3b mPOWER is SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system. Customers…