Tag: LEO
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Sierra Space Introduces Technology for Oxygen Extraction from Lunar Soil
Sierra Space, a commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced the company’s proprietary Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, heralding the first time in history that oxygen has been extracted from simulated lunar…
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Apex Announces its New ESPA-Grande Class Nova Satellite Bus
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft bus platform manufacturing company, announced Nova, its ESPA-Grande class satellite bus platform supporting payloads ranging from 200 to 500 kg. Nova deliveries will begin in Q3 2025 and are focused on meeting the needs of operational proliferated LEO missions, including the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) architecture and…
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Peraton Partners with Rivada Space Networks for Ultra-Secure LEO Communications in U.S
Peraton, a next-generation national security company and transformative enterprise IT provider, is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to offer a unique, ultra-secure low-earth orbit network capability to support mission-critical U.S. government communications around the globe. Based in the U.S., Peraton is already using first-generation LEO constellations; the company will now work with Rivada Space Networks…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Equips Its Solar Arrays After Testing
NASA‘s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft sits in a clean room in August 2024 after undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. Now that those tests are done, the orbiter and its science instruments will go through flight system software tests that simulate key aspects of launch, maneuvers, and the science mission while in…
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Telesat Selects Calian Group to Develop Element Management System for Lightspeed LEO Network
Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, announced that it has selected Calian Group Ltd., an Ottawa-based company with deep experience in delivering advanced technology solutions for the space, defense, and terrestrial sectors, to design, develop, deliver and deploy the Element Management System (EMS) within the Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit…
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Impulse Space Secures $60M STRATFI Award to Advance Helios for Responsive GEO Capabilities
Impulse Space announced its selection by SpaceWERX, sponsored by U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Space Safari Office, for a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) award with the value of $60M between government funds, matching Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funds, and private funds. The work will focus on the company’s high-performance kick stage,…
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Hughes and Boost Mobile Demonstrate Multi-Transport Network Management for U.S. Navy
Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile, EchoStar companies, successfully demonstrated optimized, multi-transport network management for the U.S. Navy. The demonstration, which took place earlier this year, tested remote network orchestration, wide area network (WAN) resiliency, and secure Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing between standalone Private 5G networks operating at the U.S. Navy Air Station, Whidbey…
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Loft Orbital and Marlan Space Partners to Launch the First Satellite Production Company in UAE
Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space, a new space company affiliated with International Holding Company (IHC), has established a joint venture with Loft Orbital to form Orbitworks, the Middle East’s first private space infrastructure company. Orbitworks marks a significant milestone in the UAE’s rapidly growing space sector, becoming the first to produce commercial low Earth orbit (LEO)…
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Scout Space Partners with Dawn Aerospace for Spaceplane Surveillance Demonstration
Scout Space, a Virginia-based startup specializing in space domain awareness, has signed an agreement with Dawn Aerospace to demonstrate the ability to observe objects in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) from an aircraft operating in suborbital space. Under the deal announced Aug. 22, Scout will install its space domain awareness sensors aboard Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II…
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Satellite Industry Association Welcomes Kinematics as Its Newest Member
The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) announced that motion control solutions provider Kinematics is the newest member of SIA. Based in Phoenix, AZ, Kinematics provides satellite positioning solutions for ground stations including a line of ready-to-integrate low-Earth-orbit satellite positioners that antenna manufacturers can integrate into their products. “SIA is pleased to announce that Kinematics has joined…