Tag: Launch
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Astrolab Announces NASA Payloads for Upcoming Lunar Mission
Astrolab, an aerospace company building planetary rovers,announced NASA payload customers for its first lunar mission aboard the company’s FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) rover. FLIP will fly aboard Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Griffin-1 will deliver payloads to the Moon’s south pole, advancing the Artemis campaign to return…
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Planet Lab’s Pelican First-light Images Features Sweden’s Sovereign Satellite Imagery
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, released first light images from its latest Pelican launch, including the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF)’s first ever sovereign satellite. Planet launched these three Pelican spacecraft to orbit aboard the CAS500-2 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California…
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BAE Systems Supplies Flight Hardware for U.S. Space Force Missile-Warning Program
BAE Systems has delivered the sensor subassembly and sensor system controller components for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar (NGP) program. The program will provide the U.S. Space Force with advanced missile warning, technical intelligence and battlespace characterization mission capabilities. This milestone delivery keeps the program on track for full assembly of the payload,…
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Starfighters Space Partners with Integrated Launch Solutions on STARLAUNCH
Starfighters Space, the innovative aerospace company, owner and operator of the world’s largest fleet of commercial supersonic aircraft, announced that it has engaged Integrated Launch Solutions, (ILS) to provide engineering and technical integration support as Starfighters advances the STARLAUNCH pathway from design and analysis toward flight and launch services. Starfighters has engaged ILS to support…
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Blacknight Space Supports Startup Accelerator Focused on Emerging Commercial Space Startups
The commercial space industry is entering a new phase. The era of launch vehicles is maturing, satellite constellations are scaling and attention is shifting toward the infrastructure, data, logistics and services that will power the space economy over the next two decades. Blacknight Space believes that some of the biggest companies in space haven’t been…
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SpinLaunch Partners with Aalyria Technologies on Meridian LEO Network Infrastructure
SpinLaunch, a pioneer of disruptive space solutions, announced a partnership with Aalyria Technologies, a leading provider of advanced network orchestration software. The two companies will collaborate on the design and development of key infrastructure supporting SpinLaunch’s low-cost Meridian low-Earth orbit (LEO) communications constellation. Aalyria will serve as a strategic partner, providing technical and commercial support…
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LEAP Launches Bullfrog Space Vehicle Demonstrating Space Logistics and Global Mobility
LEAP, a logistics company building a world where we can move goods anywhere on Earth or in orbit in minutes, successfully launched and recovered the Bullfrog vehicle. The launch marked the transition of LEAP’s space logistics for humanitarian, commercial, and joint mobility applications using a space-enabled delivery system from a concept to an operational capability. …
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ispace and University of Leicester Sign Lunar Payload Agreement for Future Moon Mission
ispace, a global lunar exploration company, and the University of Leicester (UoL) have signed a Payload Service Agreement (PSA) to deliver a Raman spectrometer payload to the lunar surface on a future ispace mission. The payload is a Raman analytical spectroscopy instrument adapted from the original laser-based spectrometer developed for the ExoMars mission, and will…
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Antaris and Transcelestial Partner to Advance LEO ISR and Optical Communications Technology
Antaris, the AI-powered platform for the design, simulation, manufacturing, and operation of satellite constellations, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Transcelestial to jointly develop and demonstrate a persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) architecture integrated with high-throughput optical communications in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The collaboration will be flight-validated on Antaris’…
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Star Catcher Raises $65 Million to Build the First Power Grid in Space
Star Catcher, the company building the first power grid in space, announced it has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. The new investment, led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus Capital Management brings Star Catcher’s total capital raised to $88 million. Cerberus’…