Tag: Satellite
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Blue Canyon Technologies Opens New Factory Dedicated to Manufacturing CubeSats
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, celebrated the grand opening of its new CubeSat Factory in Boulder, Colorado, with members of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The expanded 31,000-square-foot facility consolidates manufacturing efforts with dedicated CubeSat employees to build large spacecraft…
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Maxar Technologies Awarded Contract from NASA for Geostationary Extended Observations Spacecraft Mission
Maxar Technologies, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, announced that it has received a Phase A study contract from NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft mission. During the ten-month contract, Maxar will develop the spacecraft concept, mature necessary technologies, conduct analysis on…
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Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace Collaborate to Develop Antares Rocket Upgrade and a New Medium Launch Vehicle
Northrop Grumman Corporation and Firefly Aerospace have joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new medium launch vehicle to serve commercial, civil and national security space launch markets. Firefly’s propulsion technology utilizes the same propellants as the current Antares rocket, which minimizes launch site upgrades. The Antares 330…
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Internet Para Todos Extends its Contract with Gilat to Support 4G Backhaul Connectivity in Peru
Gilat Satellite Networks, one of the leaders in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, has announced that Internet para Todos (IPT) in Peru is expanding its contract with the company, for 4G cellular backhaul services over the Internet. IPT is a global collaboration between Telefónica, Meta (formerly Facebook), IDB Invest, and CAF. The initiative is…
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Rocket Lab Launches Second National Security Mission for the National Reconnaissance Office
Rocket Lab USA, one of the leading launch and space systems companies, has successfully launched its second of two back-to-back national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The NROL-199 “Antipodean Adventure” mission launched on the Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at 05:00 UTC on August 4, 2022,…
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NASA Completes Testing of High-Gain Antenna that Will Orbit Jupiter’s Moon
Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna set to make the long journey to begin orbiting around a water world in the outer Solar System recently finished its second round of testing this year at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The High-Gain antenna (HGA) for NASA’s Europa Clipper, which will conduct nearly 50 flybys of Jupiter’s…
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Spire Global Partners with Hancom inSpace for a Second Satellite Launch Mission
Spire Global, a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has announced an agreement with HANCOM inSPACE (“Hancom”), initially a spin-off by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and now a part of HANCOM Group, for a second mission with Spire Space Services. Hancom will host an optical payload on a second Spire 6U…
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Stellant Systems Unveils New Range for Traveling Wave Tubes for Space Communications
Stellant Systems has introduced a new range of traveling wave tubes (TWTs) for space-based communications satellites. The Q-band 200 W Downlink TWTA and V-band 200 W Uplink TWTs are designed to better serve the high throughput satellite market. Stellant Systems’ range of traveling wave tubes (TWTs) are space-qualified, proven technology which offers high reliability and…
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Slingshot Aerospace Acquires Numerica’s Space Domain Awareness Division and Seradata
Slingshot Aerospace, a company building space simulation, and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability has announced that the company has acquired Numerica’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) division and UK-based Seradata. Numerica’s SDA division includes the world’s first and only commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) to geosynchronous orbit (GEO) daytime and nighttime optical sensor network for…
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Xona Receives Investment to Develop Commercial Satellite Navigation Network
Xona Space Systems, a pioneer in navigation technologies from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has announced that they have raised an oversubscribed financing round to accelerate the development of their high-performance commercial satellite navigation network, bringing their total funding to over $25M. The round was led by First Spark Ventures who is joined by numerous new…