Tag: Sensors
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Planet to Launch Pelican and 36 SuperDoves Satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, one of the leading providers of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that its Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, Flock 4Q, will be launching on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission on November 11, 2023, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX’s launch window will open at 10:49 a.m.…
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Momentus’ Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle Successfully Completes Vibration Testing
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, announced that it has completed vibration testing of its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission no earlier than March 2024. The vibration testing conducted at Experior Laboratories…
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Rogue Selected by AFWERX to Develop In-Space Inspection Technology for its Orbital Robots
Rogue Space Systems Corporation, one of the leaders in space servicing innovation and solutions, has announced its selection by AFWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract. This opportunity focuses on leveraging sensor fusion technology, ensuring safe close proximity operations in space, and addressing paramount challenges within the Department of the Air Force (DAF). Incepted in 2020,…
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Riverside Research Awards Subcontract to Spire for the USSF Space Domain Awareness Program
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced it was awarded a subcontract by Riverside Research, an advanced research nonprofit, to provide star tracker imagery as part of the Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing for Space Domain Awareness (DEEP-SDA) project on behalf of the United States Space Force (USSF). The…
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Neuraspace Partners with Arcsec to Use Star Trackers for Space Debris Detection
Neuraspace, one of the leading providers of smarter space traffic management (STM), has partnered with Arcsec, a renowned provider of star trackers, for a groundbreaking new way to detect space debris, enabling it to track smaller objects and improve orbit calculations. Joining their forces, Neuraspace and Arcsec will harness the exceptional precision of Arcsec’s space-based…
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BlackSky Wins AFRL Direct to Phase 2 Contract to Track Vehicles in Real Time from Space
BlackSky Technology won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract, funded by the Space Development Agency, to build an automated target recognition service that will gather and combine radio frequency and electro-optical satellite sensor data to track mobile assets in real-time and securely distribute actionable intelligence to remote devices and…
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Momentus Ships Customer Integrated Payloads for SpaceX Transporter-9 Mission Launch
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has integrated its customers launching on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission and shipped the payloads to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration with Falcon 9 ahead of launch, which is targeted for no earlier than November 2023. Momentus will use…
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SCOUT Space Selected by IARPA for Space Debris Identification and Tracking Program
SCOUT Space an in-space observation data provider dedicated to enabling a new era of space safety and transparency, announced it has been selected as a subcontractor by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the R&D arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in support of the SINTRA (Space Debris Identification and Tracking)…
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ANSER Mission’s Formation Flying CubeSats to Launch on Europe’s Next Vega Launcher
ANSER (Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research) is a cluster of three CubeSats that will work together in close vicinity as if they are a single satellite. Due to be launched on Europe’s next Vega flight, VV23, the ANSER mission is being undertaken by the INTA (Spanish Institute of Aerospace Technology). Santiago Rodriguez Bustabad, overseeing…
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First Long-Duration Lidar Satellite CALIPSO Ends its Scientific Mission
CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world’s understanding of climate, weather, and air quality, ended its scientific mission on Aug. 1, 2023. Across 17 years of operation, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation recorded more than 10 billion lidar measurements and informed thousands of scientific reports. CALIPSO was launched jointly by NASA…