Tag: Satellite
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Ball Aerospace’s Pollution Monitoring Instrument Releases its First Images of Earth
Ball Aerospace celebrated alongside its mission partners as the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument released its first images of Earth, the next step in its mission to improve air quality monitoring across greater North America. TEMPO launched on April 7, 2023, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as part of NASA’s Earth Venture…
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Venus Flyby of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sets Course for Record-Setting Flights Around the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month. Moving approximately 15 miles (more than 24 kilometers) per second, Parker Solar Probe passed 2,487 miles (4,003 kilometers) above the Venusian surface as it curved around…
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Sivers Receives $5 Million Order for Beamforming ICs from European SATCOM Customer
Sivers Semiconductors AB subsidiary Sivers Wireless has received a $5M volume production order from its leading European SATCOM customer. The production order is for beamforming integrated circuits (BFIC) which will be delivered during the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. Most of the income will be revenue recognized during the same…
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ISRO Announces the Successful Soft Landing of Chandrayaan-3 on Moon’s Surface
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced the successful landing of its Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module on the surface of the Moon. The soft landing marked India’s pursuit of space exploration which reached a remarkable milestone with India becoming the fourth country to land on the moon and the first on the south pole, with Chandrayaan-3…
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ClearSpace-1 Debris Removal Mission Target Struck by New Space Debris
On 10 August 2023, ESA’s Space Debris Office was informed by the United States 18th Space Defense Squadron that new objects had been detected in the vicinity of a payload adapter. This adapter, named VESPA, was left in orbit following the 2013 launch of a Vega rocket from ESA’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 40th Electron Mission and Flies Reused Engine
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, successfully launched a dedicated Electron mission for Capella Space. The mission demonstrated several significant milestones for Rocket Lab’s reusability program, including an ocean splashdown of the Electron rocket’s first stage and the successful flight of a previously flown Rutherford engine. The mission was also Rocket Lab’s…
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NASA Selects Six Small Businesses to Develop Tech for Orbital Debris and Surface Dust
NASA has selected six U.S. small businesses to receive nearly $20 million in total to advance technologies to address two challenges in space exploration: orbital debris and surface dust. During their contracts, the companies will produce prototypes to be demonstrated or used in spaceflight. The six awards build on the companies’ prior work with NASA’s…
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Sidus Space Completes the Acquisition of Edge Artificial Intelligence Company Exo-Space
Sidus Space, a satellite manufacturing and space services company, announced its strategic acquisition of Exo-Space, a cutting-edge California-based firm specializing in Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and hardware for space applications. This transaction signals Sidus’s determination to tap into the growing AI sector and expand its offerings in the Earth and Space Observations services market.…
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U.S. Space Force Awards IDIQ Contract to Hughes for Proliferated LEO Satellite Services
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, announced that it has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Space Force for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based services. Under the IDIQ vehicle, valued at up to $900 million, the U.S. Department of Defense, other federal agencies and international coalition partners…
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Space Development Agency Selects Mynaric for Optical Ground Terminal Demonstration Project
Mynaric, a provider company of industrialized, cost-effective and scalable laser communications products, announced that it has been selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to contribute to an optical ground terminal demonstration. The research and development program’s mission, slated for 2025, is to demonstrate the successful connection between various space-based optical communications terminals (OCTs) and…