Tag: Launch
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AstroAccess and Blue Origin Partner to Advance Accessibility in Spaceflight
AstroAccess announces its collaboration with Blue Origin to make space exploration more accessible and inclusive for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people on New Shepard. Blue Origin invited AstroAccess to a two-day workshop focused on enhancing spaceflight accessibility and developing best practices for DHH astronauts last summer at Launch Site One. The Ambassadors provided expert consultation…
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UARX Space Advances Orbital Logistics for Satellite Missions
UARX Space was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Nigrán, Galicia, Spain. UARX Space is an in-space logistics company focused on providing rideshare and dedicated launch services for small satellites, including CubeSats, PocketQubes, and small satellites, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to the Moon and beyond. Their mission is to offer flexible and reliable…
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Boeing Confirms Successful Launch and Signal of O3b mPOWER Satellites for SES
Boeing engineers have confirmed the 9th and 10th O3b mPOWER satellites, built for leading space solutions company SES, have successfully launched and are transmitting signals from space after lifting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Approximately two hours after liftoff, the satellites separated from the launch vehicle, initiating…
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SES Successfully Launches Ninth and Tenth O3b mPOWER Satellites
The latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:12 pm local time, SES announced. These two new satellites enhance global coverage and bring incremental capacity to scale up services provided by SES’s second-generation medium…
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Open Cosmos: Broadening Space Access with Smart Satellite Missions and Shared Constellations
Open Cosmos, Founded in 2015 and headquartered at the Harwell Space Campus in the UK, is transforming how Earth observation data is accessed and applied, offering end-to-end satellite mission services from design and build through to launch, operations and data delivery. With a firm focus on sustainability, its ESG principles guide efforts in reducing space…
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SEOPS Integrates EPIC Athena on Upcoming TRACERS Mission with SpaceX
SEOPS, a leading provider of responsive launch and space mission services, announced it is providing the capacity, mission management and integration services for EPIC Athena, a 110 kg pathfinder spacecraft funded by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Defense’s U.S. Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC). Also Read:…
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Dutch Partners Announce Construction of TANGO Climate Satellite
ISISPACE, TNO, SRON, and KNMI announced the construction of the Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse gas Observers (TANGO). This is a satellite system from the European Space Agency (ESA) that measures global greenhouse gas emissions of CO2 and methane at the source level. TANGO builds on the successful TROPOMI satellite mission. TANGO takes a major step forward:…
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Dyndrite and Ursa Major Signs Multi-Year Deal for High-Performance Rocket Engines
Dyndrite, the company behind the GPU-accelerated computation engine powering next-generation digital manufacturing solutions, announced a multi-year licensing agreement with the aerospace and defense company Ursa Major. Under the agreement, Ursa Major has chosen Dyndrite LPBF Pro to drive its metal additive manufacturing initiatives, supporting material development, part qualification, and the production of high-performance rocket propulsion…
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EUMETSAT Assumes Control of Europe’s First Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder Satellite
After more than two weeks of complex manoeuvring, precise positioning and meticulous checks, EUMETSAT assumed control of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) spacecraft on 18 July 2025, the latest addition to its fleet of geostationary meteorological satellites. Following MTG-S1’s successful launch on 1 July 2025, the satellite, which carries the Infrared Sounder (IRS)…
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Avio Designated As Launch Service Provider for the VEGA Launcher
With the approval of the new Launcher Exploitation Declaration (“LED”) at ESA headquarters in Paris, a key milestone has been achieved in the redefinition of Europe’s launch system. The declaration officially designates Avio as the launch service provider for the Vega launcher family. For the first time, an Italian company is entrusted with providing access-to-space services,…