Tag: Sensors
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NASA Announces 2024 Phase I Awardees for Innovative Concept Studies
NASA selected the 2024 Phase I awardees for its program to fund ideas that could innovate for the benefit of all and transform future agency missions. From proposals to explore low Earth orbit to the stars, the 13 concepts chosen stem from companies and institutions across the United States. The NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts)…
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Thales Alenia Space Selects UK’s National Satellite Test Facility for FLEX Satellite Testing
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has selected the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF), at RAL Space in Oxfordshire, for the first comprehensive assembly, integration, and test campaign of the European Space Agency’s FLEX (Fluorescence Explorer) satellite. FLEX satellite will be used to map the fluorescence of the…
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RTX to Provide UK Space Agency with LEO Space Surveillance and Tracking Services
Raytheon NORSS, RTX’s UK-based space domain awareness specialist – has been awarded a contract to provide the UK Space Agency with Space Surveillance and Tracking Services Data (SST) in low-Earth orbit (LEO) for Resident Space Objects (RSO). Under this contract, Raytheon NORSS will use its ground-based Low-Earth Orbit Camera Installation sensors, known as LOCI, to…
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Eutelsat OneWeb Partners with Imperial College London for Space Weather Monitoring Research
Eutelsat OneWeb, part of Eutelsat Group, the world’s first GEO-LEO satellite operator, has collaborated with Imperial College London to explore harnessing the power of its LEO satellite constellation to enable global space weather monitoring to help protect satellite operations as well as power, communications, navigation and transport systems. The changing conditions in near-Earth space, known…
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Airbus Awarded €109.3 Million Contract for Advancement of ESA’s TRUTHS Mission
Airbus has been awarded the latest phase in the European Space Agency (ESA) TRUTHS mission as part of ESA’s Earth Observation Earth Watch program. The contract covers a detailed definition of the mission and payload and focuses on payload development and de-risking activities with an option for the procurement of long lead time hardware ahead…
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Thales Alenia Space Inks Multi-Satellite Deal with PT Len Industri for Optical Imagery
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a multi-mission contract with PT Len Industri to provide a state-of-the-art Earth observation constellation combining both radar and optical sensors and dedicated to the Indonesian Ministry of Defence (MoD). Both companies will join forces to deploy an end-to-end system including space and…
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Pacific Defense Wins $9.4M AFRL Phase II Contract for Cislunar Space Sensor Development
Pacific Defense, one of the leading providers of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and solutions, announced it has signed a $9.4M Phase II contract with the Space Control Technology Branch of AFRL to complete the development of a low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor built on MOSA principles to address the rapidly expanding challenge…
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Pacific Defense Wins $9.4M AFRL Phase II Contract for Cislunar Space Sensor Development
Pacific Defense, one of the leading providers of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and solutions, announced it has signed a $9.4M Phase II contract with the Space Control Technology Branch of AFRL to complete the development of a low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor built on MOSA principles to address the rapidly expanding challenge…
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Spire Global to Build and Operate Six Satellites for Lacuna Space’s IoT Constellation
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, was awarded a Space Services contract by Lacuna Space, a leading satellite IoT connectivity provider. Under the agreement, Spire will initially build and launch six satellites carrying Lacuna Space’s payload and antenna, with the opportunity to scale the constellation to dozens of satellites.…
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Arcfield Completes Acquisition of Orion Space Solutions
Arcfield, a leading government technology and mission support provider, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Orion Space Solutions, a Colorado-based developer of end-to-end space mission capabilities and solutions. The acquisition of Orion enhances Arcfield’s space exploration and hypersonic detection and tracking capabilities for agencies in the Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence…