Tag: Satellite
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Northrop Grumman Completes Major Milestone in Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission
Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered two major components of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) and has started the next phase of pre-launch preparations. This two-satellite constellation will deliver protected satellite communications to the Northern polar region – one of the most difficult locations on Earth to deliver communications. The most recent accomplishments include: Successful…
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True Anomaly Selects Redwire to Provide Cameras and Navigation Technology for its Orbital Vehicle
Redwire is continuing to enable today’s most ambitious national security space missions through a wide range of mission-critical systems and capabilities. During a panel at Small Satellite Conference 2023, Redwire announced that it was selected by True Anomaly, a technology company revolutionizing space security and sustainability with fully-integrated hardware and software, to provide navigation technology…
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Firefly Aerospace Showcases New Elytra Orbital Vehicles with Enhanced On-Orbit Mobility
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced the expansion of its on-orbit services with a line of highly mobile and scalable orbital vehicles named Elytra. As the wings of a firefly, Elytra (pronounced ella-truh) offers on-orbit mobility, hosting, delivery, and servicing across cislunar space and beyond. When launched on Firefly’s small- and medium-lift launch…
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Pale Blue to Supply Water-Based Propulsion Systems for Yonsei University
Pale Blue, a space tech company focused on innovative propulsion technology has been awarded a new contract with Yonsei University in South Korea to provide the Resistojet (0.5U-sized water vapor) propulsion system for a pair of 6U satellites. The propulsion system will be used to do formation flying for a laser crosslink system between the…
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Blue Canyon Technologies Introduces Largest Form Factor in its CubeSat Product Line
Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), RTX’s small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, continues to meet the demand for increased payload size, weight, and power (SWaP) by introducing the XB16 CubeSat, now the largest form factor in its CubeSat product line. The XB16 CubeSat offers 14U of payload volume with a canister-dependent option for an additional 12,000…
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EnduroSat to Design and Build Vyoma’s Space Situational Awareness Satellite Constellation
EnduroSat and Vyoma have announced that they will be working together on Europe’s first commercial mission for in-situ space situational awareness (SSA). Vyoma will use in-orbit optical telescopes to observe space objects and map the orbital environment at a high frequency, thus providing SSA data and services with near-zero latency. EnduroSat will design and build…
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Rocket Lab Signs New Block Buy Deal for Five Electron Launches with BlackSky
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, has announced it has signed another block buy deal for five Electron launches with BlackSky, one of the leading providers of real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring services. Rocket Lab has launched six Electron missions for BlackSky since 2019, becoming the primary launch provider for BlackSky’s…
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Rocket Lab Secures New Deal to Launch HASTE Mission from Virginia
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, announced that it has signed a new launch services agreement with a confidential customer for a HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) mission from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in 2024. The contract…
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Spire Global Awarded Contract by GHGSat to Build Satellites for Emissions Monitoring
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, was awarded a Space Services contract by GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space. Under the agreement, Spire will build, launch and operate four additional 16U satellites that will carry GHGSat payloads to monitor greenhouse gas emissions. This builds…
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Zenno Integrates Worlds First Superconducting Magnetic Torquer in D-Orbit’s Satellite Carrier
Zenno Astronautics, a space-flight systems company headquartered in New Zealand has completed the integration of its world-first superconducting magnetic torquer for fuel-free spacecraft attitude control, the Z01, inside D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier in preparation for its first in-orbit validation mission. The orbital transfer vehicle with Z01 integrated is slated for launch via SpaceX’s Falcon 9…