Tag: Satellite Cameras
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Momentus’ Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle Successfully Completes Vibration Testing
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, announced that it has completed vibration testing of its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission no earlier than March 2024. The vibration testing conducted at Experior Laboratories…
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ANSER Mission’s Formation Flying CubeSats to Launch on Europe’s Next Vega Launcher
ANSER (Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research) is a cluster of three CubeSats that will work together in close vicinity as if they are a single satellite. Due to be launched on Europe’s next Vega flight, VV23, the ANSER mission is being undertaken by the INTA (Spanish Institute of Aerospace Technology). Santiago Rodriguez Bustabad, overseeing…
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NASA and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Roman Space Telescope’s Primary Instrument
Ball Aerospace and its partners at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have successfully completed the assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s camera system, called the Wide Field Instrument (WFI). The WFI will serve as the observatory’s primary instrument, providing the scientific community with detailed and expansive images of the cosmos. The instrument will…
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True Anomaly Selects Redwire to Provide Cameras and Navigation Technology for its Orbital Vehicle
Redwire is continuing to enable today’s most ambitious national security space missions through a wide range of mission-critical systems and capabilities. During a panel at Small Satellite Conference 2023, Redwire announced that it was selected by True Anomaly, a technology company revolutionizing space security and sustainability with fully-integrated hardware and software, to provide navigation technology…
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EnduroSat to Design and Build Vyoma’s Space Situational Awareness Satellite Constellation
EnduroSat and Vyoma have announced that they will be working together on Europe’s first commercial mission for in-situ space situational awareness (SSA). Vyoma will use in-orbit optical telescopes to observe space objects and map the orbital environment at a high frequency, thus providing SSA data and services with near-zero latency. EnduroSat will design and build…
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TRL11 Showcases Space Video Recorder and Cubesat Deployer on SpaceX Transporter-8 Mission
TRL11, one of the leading providers of video solutions for the space industry, has successfully validated several of its core technologies on a demonstration mission in Low Earth Orbit, despite the host spacecraft developing an anomaly shortly after deployment. All three products in TRL11’s demo mission operated nominally for the duration of Vast’s Orbiter SN03…
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BepiColombo Mission Gears Up for Third Mercury Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its next close flyby of Mercury when it will pass the planet’s surface at an altitude of about 236 km. This is the third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury that ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through. The flybys, together with more than 15…
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Sidus Space to Launch LizzieSat Satellite on SpaceX Transporter Mission
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space, and Defense-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that it will launch industry-leading hyperspectral and multispectral imaging and Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its LizzieSat satellite on SpaceX Transporter missions beginning in 2024. LizzieSat’s hyperspectral and multispectral imaging capability will be provided by the Owl 1280 and Hawk 1920 HD cameras made by…
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Redwire Space Showcases New High Resolution Camera for LEO Applications
Redwire Space a company focused on space commercialization, digitally engineered spacecraft, on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing has announced a new high-resolution camera for low earth orbit (LEO) applications. The SpectraCAM High-Resolution Flight Cameras from Redwire Space are engineered for low earth orbit (LEO) applications including docking, navigation, inspection, and situational awareness. Featuring GigE Vision image…
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GomSpace Showcases New Camera System for Earth Observation Projects
GomSpace, one of the global leading manufacturers and suppliers of CubeSat and small satellite solutions for customers in the academic, government, and commercial markets has introduced a new high-performing camera system for earth observation projects. The NanoCam C1U system from GomSpace is a flexible and modular system to rapidly implement tailored imaging systems based on…