Tag: Satellite
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SES’s Two O3b mPOWER Satellites Successfully Launched Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
SES announced that two additional O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 4:08 pm local time. With the fifth and sixth O3b mPOWER satellites launched, the system completes the six medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites required to…
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Planet Launches First Pelican and 36 SuperDoves Satellites on SpaceX Transporter-9 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that Pelican-1, the first tech demonstration satellite for its next-generation, high-resolution Pelican fleet, along with 36 of its SuperDoves, Flock 4Q, were successfully launched to orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on November 11, 2023. The Planet team…
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ICEYE Elevates Its Radar Imaging Constellation With the Launch of Four New Satellites
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring with radar imaging satellites and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has expanded its constellation with four new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites on November 11. The launch of SpaceX’s Transporter-9 smallsat rideshare mission via Exolaunch was conducted from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA.…
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Intelsat Awarded a Contract by U.S Army to Provide Multi-Orbit SATCOM Support
Intelsat, operator of one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks, will soon provide the U.S Army with new, flexible, and fully managed multi-orbit satellite communications (SATCOM) support, following the award of the Army’s first-ever Satellite Communication (SATCOM) as a Managed Service (SaaMS) contract. “As the largest, most trusted provider of SATCOM services…
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Rocket Lab Announces Next Electron Launch Window and Provides Update on Anomaly Review
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has set a return to launch window for its Electron launch vehicle. Rocket Lab will return to the pad at Launch Complex 1 with a dedicated Electron mission for Japan-based Earth imaging company iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of…
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Planet to Launch Pelican and 36 SuperDoves Satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, one of the leading providers of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that its Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, Flock 4Q, will be launching on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission on November 11, 2023, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX’s launch window will open at 10:49 a.m.…
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Momentus and RIDE! Space Team Up to Link SmallSat Operators with In-Space Services
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, has signed an agreement with RIDE! Space to make its services available through the RIDE! Space platform. Momentus and RIDE! Space recently signed a services agreement to fly Gaindesat and Djibouti payloads on…
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SES Space & Defense Awarded Medium Earth Orbit BPA by U.S. Department of Defense
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) low-latency high-throughput satellite (HTS) services. The single-award BPA has a ceiling of just under USD 270 million over a five-year period. With this contract, SES Space…
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Rocket Lab Signs an Agreement with the Department of Defense for HASTE Launch Mission
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a launch services agreement with the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for a HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) mission from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia. The HASTE mission will deploy a…
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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites are maneuvering the way they were built to do
Amazon’s Hall-effect thruster fires up with a krypton glow during testing. (Amazon Photo) A month after the launch of its first prototype Project Kuiper satellites, Amazon reports that the spacecraft have demonstrated controlled maneuvering in orbit using their custom-built electric propulsion systems. “A recent series of test firings provided critical on-orbit data to further validate…