Tag: Satellite
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Eutelsat Group Announces Conclusion of Operations on EUTELSAT 113 West A Satellite
Eutelsat Group confirmed that following an anomaly on its EUTELSAT 113 West A satellite which occurred on 31st January, it has ceased operations on the satellite. Launched in 2006 and operating in inclined orbit at the 113° West position, EUTELSAT 113 West A (ex-Satmex 6) provided coverage of the Americas in C-band and Ku-band serving…
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NanoAvionics Awarded Contract by Los Alamos National Laboratory for GTO Mission
The 12U (1U equals 10×10×10 cm3) spacecraft, about the size of a microwave oven, will host the Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis (ESRA) mission. ESRA is the latest of a series of Demonstration and Validation missions built by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with the focus of this mission on testing next-generation charged particle sensors…
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Carbice Partners with Blue Canyon Technologies for Deep Tech Innovation in Aerospace
Carbice Corporation, the company that is helping customers build stronger by eliminating interface failure mode and achieving sustainability, announced that it is collaborating with Blue Canyon Technologies as a key supplier of aligned carbon nanotechnology (CNT) solutions for critical spacecraft programs. RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies is a provider of turnkey small satellite solutions, including nanosatellites,…
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SFL Developed Norwegian Microsatellite Achieves Optical Communications Link
The Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA)’s NorSat-TD demonstration microsatellite developed by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has successfully transferred data to a ground station using optical communications technology. The accomplishment is a first for a Dutch-built laser communication device and among the first achieved by a microsatellite. Optical, or laser, communications between a satellite and ground station enable…
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Advanced Space’s Resilient CAPSTONE Mission for NASA Marks 445 Days of Lunar Operations
Advanced Space, one of the leading space tech solutions companies, announced that CAPSTONE – the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – continues to be “The Little Satellite That Could” as it flies near the Moon over 440 days. The spacecraft is conducting operations in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO); achieving record-long…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches First Electron Mission of 2024
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, launched its first Electron mission for 2024, a space-junk-focused mission for Spire Global and NorthStar Earth & Space. The ‘Four Of A Kind’ mission for Spire’s customer NorthStar successfully launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 19:34…
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SDA Modifies Momentus Contract for Defense Applications of Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has been awarded a contract modification valued at $1,196,404 by the Space Development Agency to continue development of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle for the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Requirements. Through this Small Business Innovation Research Award, “Orbital…
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Sidus Space’s 3D Hybrid Satellite Successfully Completes Launch Processing
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space, and Data-as-a-Service company, announced the successful completion of launch processing of LizzieSat at the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Sidus team executed the final steps in the launch processing of LizzieSat, including mating the satellite to the separation system and the launch vehicle…
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PLD Space Awarded €40.5 Million PERTE Contract for Space Launcher Development
The Spanish aerospace company PLD Space has won the second phase of the project for the development of a Spanish launcher for small satellites, framed within the Aerospace PERTE (Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation), which has a tender amount of 40.5 million euros. The company has been appointed as the sole contractor, having…
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Spectrum AMT Showcases Transformative Capabilities at SpaceCom Space Congress 2024
Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, a pivotal force in high-reliability microelectronic circuits and electronic assemblies manufacturing for over 25 years, is poised to exhibit its transformative capabilities in product development and manufacturing services at SpaceCom — America’s Commercial Space Conference and Exposition. The event starts on January 1, 2024, and runs through February 1, 2024, at…