Tag: Satellite
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Terran Orbital Delivers Final of Ten Satellite Buses to Lockheed Martin for SDA Tranche 0 Transport Layer
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the delivery of the final of ten satellite buses to prime contractor Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer. The delivery of the ten Tranche 0 buses proves Terran Orbital’s ability…
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Boeing’s Spectrolab to Power Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
As the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission begins its survey of the Earth’s surface, the satellite will get power from solar cells built by Spectrolab, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing. The SWOT satellite, targeted to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, will conduct the first global survey of water on the…
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GHGSat Partners with KSAT for Satellite Constellation Operations
GHGSat is partnering with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to provide satellite operations and control of their constellation of greenhouse gas monitoring spacecraft. KSAT will operate the current 5 commercial satellites in orbit. Managing a constellation of satellites requires constant supervision, know-how and dedication. GHGSat, a global leader in high-resolution remote sensing of greenhouse gas emissions…
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Airbus Delivers First Sentinel-4 Air Monitoring Instrument to ESA
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be integrated into the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite next year. The instrument will continuously monitor key air quality trace gases and aerosols from geostationary orbit with…
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Meteosat MTG-I1 Successfully Launched by Ariane 5 Rocket from Europe’s Spaceport
The MTG-I1 weather satellite, built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), was successfully launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. MTG-I1 is the first imaging satellite in the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) program, designed to improve…
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Isar Aerospace and German Space Agency at Selected Payloads for Second Flight of Spectrum Launch Vehicle
At the first German Small Satellite conference, Isar Aerospace and the German Space Agency at DLR announced the selection of payloads for the second flight of the company’s launch vehicle Spectrum, planned for 2023-2024. The payloads have been selected in the process of the Microlauncher competition, which included an Announcement of Opportunity for European payloads…
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SES’s First Two O3b mPOWER Satellites Successfully Launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
SES announced that the first two O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. Built by Boeing and designed to deliver unprecedented performance with a first-of-its-kind software-driven payload, O3b mPOWER is SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system. Customers…
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Hypernova to Test Electric Propulsion System on EnduroSat’s Platform
Hypernova will validate its proprietary plasma electric propulsion system, in orbit, on EnduroSat’s Platform-2. The launch is scheduled for January 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-6 mission. With support from EnduroSat’s Space Service, the thrusters are expected to perform an extensive testing campaign with several satellite maneuvers under a wide variety of operational modes &…
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Thales Alenia Space Begins Instrument Integration for Europe’s First CO2 Monitoring Satellite
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has completed the assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) of the MicroCarb satellite platform, and is now ready to begin the integration of the dispersive spectrometer delivered to the UK, bringing this important climate mission a step closer to launch in early 2024. MicroCarb…
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Sidus Space Selects Exolaunch for LizzieSat Deployment
Sidus Space, a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection recently signed an agreement with Exolaunch to use their CarboNIX separation system to deploy LizzieSat satellites during the LizzieSat rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2023 and 2024. This agreement includes comprehensive technical support that ensures…