Tag: Satellite
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Blue Origin Unveils Multi-Orbit Space Mobility Platform for In-Space Logistics and Delivery
Expanding upon its mission to build a road to space for the benefit of Earth, Blue Origin has unveiled Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform focused on providing in-space logistics and delivery. Blue Ring serves commercial and government customers and can support a variety of missions in medium Earth orbit out to the cislunar region and…
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Momentus Signs Contract with SatRev to Provide Orbital Delivery Services in 2024
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has signed a contract with SatRev for transportation and orbital delivery services in 2024. SatRev is a Polish company established in 2016 that specializes in building small, lightweight nanosatellites. The company has contracted to fly its SOWA-1 payload with…
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BlackSky Wins AFRL Direct to Phase 2 Contract to Track Vehicles in Real Time from Space
BlackSky Technology won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract, funded by the Space Development Agency, to build an automated target recognition service that will gather and combine radio frequency and electro-optical satellite sensor data to track mobile assets in real-time and securely distribute actionable intelligence to remote devices and…
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UC Berkeley and SKS Partners Unveil $2 Billion R&D Hub at NASA’s Ames Research Center
A joint venture between The University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco-based SKS Partners, unveiled Berkeley Space Center at NASA Research Park, a planned 36-acre innovation hub in the heart of Silicon Valley. As envisioned, the multi-phase development would accelerate the area’s existing innovation ecosystem, catalyzing deeper collaboration between the private, academic, and governmental sectors. …
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Bright Ascension Secures Additional Funding to Support the Launch of Helix Software Products
Bright Ascension has announced the successful acquisition of an additional £1.5m in funding through a bridging loan. This investment is an important milestone, ensuring the seamless development of their innovative HELIX suite of software products as it nears its eagerly awaited launch. The investment follows two successful fund-raising rounds completed by the company in August…
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SSC Supports the Launch of Thailand’s THEOS-2 Earth Observation Satellite
SSC is supporting the launch of Thailand’s high-resolution Earth Observation optical satellite THEOS-2, which was successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on October 9th. The mission is designed to deliver ground-breaking imagery with a 0.50-meter ground resolution. “SSC is proud to provide critical LEOP support connectivity services to another Airbus-built satellite mission and to provide…
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ESA’s Proba-3 Mission Led by Sener Reaches the Final Test Phase Before Launch
The Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), led by the Sener engineering and technology group, has reached a new milestone after successfully completing the environmental testing campaign of the two satellites at the IABG facilities in Ottobrunn (Germany). The aim of this testing campaign was to ensure that the satellites and their various…
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OQ Technology Confirms the Successful Launch and Deployment of MACSAT Satellite
OQ Technology has announced the successful launch of its new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, MACSAT, aboard Arianespace’s Vega (mission VV23). This pivotal development will strengthen its space and ground infrastructures while broadening its satellite coverage. The satellite was launched from French Guiana on October 8, 2023 (3:37 AM on Monday, October 9, 2023, Luxembourg…
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Redwire to Participate in Space Tech Expo Europe
Redwire will be attending Space Tech Expo, Europe’s largest B2B event for the space industry. Taking place alongside the three-day exhibition, Space Tech Expo will feature three conferences covering topics in the areas of small sats, the space industry, and mobility and connectivity. Panel Discussion: Staying on Top of the Growing Importance of Remote Sensing for…
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NASA’s DSOC Experiment to Demonstrate Laser Communications as Part of Psyche Mission
NASA’s pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment will be the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away as Mars. Launching with NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, DSOC will test key technologies designed to enable future missions to transmit denser science data and even stream…