Tag: Satellite Bus & Platforms
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Europe‘s First Solar Sail Mission Successfully Launched by SpaceX
Kongsberg NanoAvionics has announced the successful launch of Europe‘s first solar sail mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-6. The 6U nanosatellite nicknamed ‘Alpha’ was manufactured for France’s Gama. It is one of four satellites, built by the Lithuanian smallsat mission integrator for multiple customers, that got sent into low Earth Orbit. It is the first time for…
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Spaceflight Signs Deal to Launch Sherpa Vehicles on Maritime Launch Services Missions
Spaceflight Inc., a premier launch and in-space transportation services provider, announced it has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services Inc. to launch up to five of its Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs). The launches will be from Spaceport Nova Scotia aboard the Cyclone-4M beginning in 2025. Spaceflight has successfully delivered more than 550 spacecraft…
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Ball Aerospace Enters Final Stages of Building Space Force’s Next-Gen Operational Weather Satellite
Ball Aerospace completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force’s next-generation operational environmental satellite system. Ball also finalized environmental testing on the Microwave Imager (MWI) instrument and has started the final space vehicle assembly, integration, and testing. Upon delivery, WSF-M will provide mission data to the Department of…
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Terran Orbital Delivers Final of Ten Satellite Buses to Lockheed Martin for SDA Tranche 0 Transport Layer
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the delivery of the final of ten satellite buses to prime contractor Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer. The delivery of the ten Tranche 0 buses proves Terran Orbital’s ability…
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Thales Alenia Space Begins Instrument Integration for Europe’s First CO2 Monitoring Satellite
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has completed the assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) of the MicroCarb satellite platform, and is now ready to begin the integration of the dispersive spectrometer delivered to the UK, bringing this important climate mission a step closer to launch in early 2024. MicroCarb…
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Sidus Space Selects Exolaunch for LizzieSat Deployment
Sidus Space, a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection recently signed an agreement with Exolaunch to use their CarboNIX separation system to deploy LizzieSat satellites during the LizzieSat rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2023 and 2024. This agreement includes comprehensive technical support that ensures…
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Terran Orbital Announces Formation of Optical Solutions Group (OSG)
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced the formation of a new Optical Solutions Group (OSG) focused on electro-optical (EO) satellite imaging products. The new group will concentrate on the development and innovation of new EO products while offering a wide variety of custom-made…
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Absolut Sensing Selects NanoAvionics to Build “GEN1” Demonstration Satellite
Absolut Sensing, a subsidiary of the Absolut Group specialized in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a significant milestone with the selection of satellite manufacturer Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build its demonstration satellite dubbed “GEN1”, after a rigorous selection process. Under the mission agreement, NanoAvionics will provide its 16U nanosatellite bus, payload integration services,…
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Boeing Delivers First Two O3b mPOWER Satellites to SES
Boeing has delivered the first two O3b mPOWER satellites to SES, a leader in global content connectivity solutions. The all-digital satellites are being prepared in Florida for launch to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), 8,000 km from Earth, where they will provide low-latency, high-throughput connectivity to users around the world. The satellites combine Boeing’s flight-proven 702…
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NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch TROPICS Mission that Captures the Formation of Tropical Cyclones
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, has announced that it has been selected by NASA to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission, as part of the agency’s Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. Rocket Lab will launch…