Tag: Launch
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Planet Labs Ships Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 to Launch Site for Upcoming SpaceX Mission
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced it has shipped its Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites to Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of their launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Planet’s satellite production line is now fully ramped and operational, with multiple Pelican and Tanager satellites currently in…
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Firefly Aerospace Secures $177 Million NASA Contract for Pioneering Lunar South Pole Mission
Firefly Aerospace, a market leading space and defense technology company, was awarded a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to deliver five NASA-sponsored payloads to the Moon’s south pole in 2029. The mission will utilize Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle and Blue Ghost lunar lander to enable payload operations that include evaluating the…
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Slingshot Launches TALOS AI for Mission-Ready Space Operations
Slingshot Aerospace, the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, announced the launch of Slingshot TALOS — the Thinking Agent for Logical Operations and Strategy. TALOS is an autonomous, AI-powered agent designed to imitate realistic satellite actions in training and simulation environments. Purpose-built using Slingshot’s behavior cloning…
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SFL Missions Awarded Contract to Develop AISSat-4 for Norwegian Maritime Monitoring System
The Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) has awarded a contract to SFL Missions Inc. to develop the AISSat-4 maritime ship tracking microsatellite for launch in less than one year. AISSat-4 is needed to expand operational capacity in Norway’s maritime situational awareness network. AISSat-4 is being developed on SFL’s SPARTAN 6U nanosatellite platform and will carry a…
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Journey and Starlab Partners to Design the Commercial Space Station Experience
Starlab Space, global joint venture among Voyager Technologies, Airbus, Mitsubishi Corporation, MDA Space and Palantir Technologies, announced a strategic partnership with Journey, a multidimensional experience agency, that will help shape the interior and experiential design of the next-generation commercial space station. Journey joins Hilton and Airbus in developing a station environment that enhances the way…
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Spire Global Secures European Space Agency to Deliver Weather Data from Space
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, was awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Third Party Mission (TPM) programme to supply historical weather data collected by its satellites. Under the programme, European researchers will have access to Spire’s historical Earth intelligence data, including GNSS-Reflectometry and…
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Boeing’s X-37B Sets for Eighth Mission Launch in August from Florida’s Space Coast
The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is preparing to launch its eighth mission (OTV-8) from Florida’s Space Coast, with liftoff scheduled no earlier than August 21. This milestone comes less than six months after the successful completion of OTV-7. “With each successive flight, the X-37B has demonstrated adaptability and flexibility by hosting diverse experiments and pioneering…
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York Space Systems Successfully Launches BARD Mission to Demonstrate NASA’s Communication Capabilities
York Space Systems, a defense technology company transforming how the United States builds and operates space-based capabilities, announced the successful launch of its BARD mission. The satellite deployed successfully on July 23 from Vandenberg Space Force Base. York made contact on the first attempt, and all systems are healthy on orbit. BARD was procured as…
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Hanwha Aerospace Secures KSLV-II Tech Transfer to Advance Korea’s Space Capabilities
Hanwha Aerospace has signed a landmark technology transfer agreement with the state-funded Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for the KSLV-II (Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II), also known as Nuri, Korea’s first indigenously developed space launcher. This tech transfer underscores Hanwha’s commitment to cultivating the space industry as a primary future growth engine, complementing its established leadership…
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Dawn Aerospace Joins €10M European Defence Agency-Backed LEO2VLEO Consortium for Satellite Mobility
Dawn Aerospace had the official kick-off of the LEO2VLEO project, a European Defence Agency-backed program to develop the continent’s first maneuverable military satellite constellation operating between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO). Co-funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence and the Austrian Armed Forces, the project includes the development of three…