Tag: Sensors
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Torch.AI Launches Firefly Earth Observation AI with New Satellite Constellation Capabilities
Torch.AI announced that the company has launched Firefly, an earth observation (EO) capability integrated with a mesh of existing satellites, now offered as a standard module within the company’s HALO Autonomous Fusion platform. Firefly builds on Torch.AI’s momentum supporting defense and intelligence community customers and critical national security missions. Firefly expands a customer’s information ecosystem…
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L3Harris Selected by Millennium Space Systems to Build Eight Infrared Payloads for SDA
L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, to build eight infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program. The FOO Fighter satellite system will test new technologies that could aid in missile defense and will incorporate fire control-quality sensors into a scalable prototype…
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L3Harris Receives $187 Million Award from US Space Force to Enhance Space Domain Awareness
L3Harris Technologies received an award of option year five of the Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program. The contract, worth up to $187 million from the U.S. Space Force, continues the modernization and sustainment of critical space infrastructure enabling the Space Force core competency of space domain awareness. In support of the…
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Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Successfully Completes Rendezvous and Begins Proximity Approach
Astroscale Japan, a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, announced that its commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite, Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J), has achieved a major technical milestone: completion of the rendezvous phase of its mission and the beginning of proximity approach. This…
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Sidus Space Signs Second Agreement with HEO for NEI Payload and Data Services
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space, and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs that it has finalized an additional agreement with HEO, a leading provider of non-Earth imaging (“NEI”) and data, for NEI payload and data services. Under the agreement, Sidus Space will host HEO’s NEI imager, HOLMES-006, onboard LizzieSat-3, as…
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Raytheon Achieves Key Milestone in Testing of VIIRS Sensor for NASA-NOAA JPSS Program
Raytheon, an RTX business, has completed a major test milestone on its latest Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor. The VIIRS instrument observes and collects global environmental data that spans visible and infrared wavelengths across land, ocean, and atmosphere and is a pivotal part of the NASA-NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series of…
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ESA’s Young Professionals Satellite (YPSat) to be part of Ariane 6’s Inaugural Launch
Europe’s newest rocket soon launches, taking with it many space missions each with a unique objective, destination and team at home, cheering them on. Whether launching new satellites to look back and study Earth, peer out to deep space or test important new technologies in orbit, Ariane 6’s first flight will showcase the versatility and flexibility…
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Teledyne to Showcase its Products and Solutions at the Space Symposium 2024
Teledyne, will be showcasing various products and solutions at The Space Symposium, which takes place from 8 to 11 April at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, USA. Teledyne benefits from more than 200 years of combined experience producing sophisticated, highly reliable structures, electronics, imaging and sensor systems for the growing global space economy. As part of…
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NASA Science and Hardware Launch Aboard SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Mission to the ISS
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are on the way to the International Space Station, including studies of technologies to measure sea ice and plant growth in space. SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the…
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SkyServe Partners with Loft Orbital to Deploy its AI-Edge Computing Platform on YAM-6
SkyServe and Loft Orbital have joined forces for Mission Denali to deploy SkyServe STORM, SkyServe’s in-space edge computing platform on YAM-6. Mission Denali will leverage Sensing and Compute Resources on YAM-6 to deliver insights from space. By processing multispectral and hyperspectral data in real time, SkyServe STORM is defining the paradigm of space-based data processing, delivering…