Tag: Satellite
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Sidus Space Achieves Critical AI and Hardware Contract Milestones Ahead of LizzieSat-1 Launch
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service company achieves critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) and hardware contract milestones as the Company prepares for the commencement of its satellite constellation scheduled for launch in March 2024 with LizzieSat-1 as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Notable recent achievements include the successful delivery…
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Voyager Space and Airbus Finalize Creation of Starlab Space LLC Joint Venture
Voyager Space and Airbus, global leaders in space exploration, announced they have completed the transaction to create Starlab Space LLC, a transatlantic joint venture that will design, build, and operate the Starlab commercial space station. Alongside the joint venture execution, the Starlab team completed the station-level System Definition Review (SDR), a critical milestone assessing the…
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Einstein Probe Launches with a Mission to Monitor the X-ray Sky
The Chinese Academy of Sciences spacecraft Einstein Probe lifted off on a Chang Zheng (Long March) 2C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China at 15:03 CST / 07:03 GMT / 08:03 CET on 9 January 2024. With the successful launch, Einstein Probe began its mission to survey the sky and hunt for…
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Viasat Secures Orders from U.S. Army for High-Throughput Satellite Technology
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, has been selected by the U.S. Army as part of its Commercial Satellite High-Throughput, Low Latency assessment (HT-LL). The Army PEO-C3T has ordered Viasat’s High-Throughput Upgrade Kits, which utilize the Army’s HAWKEYE III LITE terminals connected to the Viasat High-Capacity Ka-band network to provide flexible, secure,…
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ISRO Successfully Flight Tests Fuel Cell in PSLV C58
ISRO has successfully tested a 100 W class Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell based Power System (FCPS) in its orbital platform, POEM3, launched onboard PSLV-C58 on January 1, 2024. The objective of the experiment was to assess Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel cell operation in space and to collect data to facilitate the design of systems…
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NOAA Awards Spire Global $9.4 Million Contract for Satellite Weather Data
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, has been awarded $9.4 million by the National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration to provide radio occultation (RO) data for 8 months. The award is part of an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Program’s Radio Occultation Data Buy…
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Rocket Lab Announces Space Situational Awareness Mission Launch for Spire and NorthStar
Rocket Lab USA, a global organization in launch services and space systems, announced it has set the launch window for its first mission of 2024. The ‘Four of a Kind’ mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than January 18 between 19:15-20:00 NZT (January 18 between 06:15-07:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in…
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United Launch Alliance’s Next Generation Vulcan Rocket Successfully Launched
United Launch Alliance marked the beginning of a new era of space capabilities with the successful launch of its next-generation Vulcan rocket on Jan. 8 at 2:18 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Vulcan rocket provides industry-leading capabilities to deliver any payload, at any time, to any orbit.…
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Rocket Lab Awarded $0.5 Billion Contract by SDA to Design and Build Satellite Constellation
Rocket Lab USA, a leading provider of space launch services and advanced satellite technology, announced it has been selected by and is under contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA) to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites (T2TL – Beta). Rocket Lab will act as the prime contractor for the…
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ISRO’s Aditya-L1 Solar Observatory Spacecraft Successfully Achieves Halo-Orbit Insertion
ISRO’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory spacecraft accomplished Halo-Orbit Insertion (HOI) at 16.00 Hrs (approx) on January 6, 2024 (IST). The final phase of the maneuver involved firing of control engines for a short duration. The orbit of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft is a periodic Halo orbit which is located roughly 1.5 million km from Earth on the…