Tag: Sensors
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Sidus Space Completes the Acquisition of Edge Artificial Intelligence Company Exo-Space
Sidus Space, a satellite manufacturing and space services company, announced its strategic acquisition of Exo-Space, a cutting-edge California-based firm specializing in Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and hardware for space applications. This transaction signals Sidus’s determination to tap into the growing AI sector and expand its offerings in the Earth and Space Observations services market.…
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ICEYE Receives First Task Order Under NASA’s CSDA Program for SAR Satellite Imagery
ICEYE, one of the leaders in persistent monitoring of Earth with radar imaging satellites, received its first Task Order under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with NASA announced earlier this year. The Task Order enables NASA to acquire ICEYE’s synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data for evaluation by scientific and academic communities to determine suitability for advancing NASA’s…
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Maritime Launch Services Announces Inaugural Launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia
Maritime Launch Services, the owner and operator of Canada’s first commercial launch complex, has announced the inaugural launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia, featuring VisionCosmos Saudi Arabia’s VCL-1 ChipSat. This pioneering launch was secured via Precious Payload’s Launch.ctrl marketplace. This international collaboration saw Maritime Launch Services leading the project, Al NajmX – Precious Payload’s Saudi partner,…
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Redwire’s Critical Navigation Technology to Support NASA’s Dragonfly Mission
Redwire sun sensor technology is continuing to advance science and discovery onboard planetary missions to deepen humanity’s understanding of our solar system. Through a contract from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Redwire will supply critical navigation technology for NASA’s groundbreaking Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The Digital Sun Sensor system onboard…
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Sidus Space and Lulav Space Partner to Launch Event-Based Star Tracker on SpaceX Mission
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Defense-as-a-Service satellite company announced it has partnered with Lulav Space, a robotics company specializing in space applications, to research, develop and demonstrate the benefits of Event-based Star Trackers (EBST). Sidus plans to include the Lulav/Sidus EBST on its fourth planned LizzieSat mission, currently scheduled to launch with SpaceX in…
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Teledyne e2v Space Imaging Celebrates the Success of its Sensors as ESA Decommissions Aeolus
Teledyne e2v Space Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies, is proud to have designed and built sensors for Aeolus, the first ESA satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth’s wind on a global scale. Named after the Greek god of the winds, Aeolus is the fifth satellite in the Living Planet Programme of the European Space…
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L3Harris Awarded Contract by U.S. Space Force to Support Detection and Tracking of Missiles
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command, through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicle, awarded L3Harris Technologies approximately $29 million for a sensor payload design contract to deliver a digital model for the medium Earth orbit (MEO) – Missile Track Custody (MTC) Epoch 1 program that will support detecting and tracking…
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SpaceTech Introduces New Thermo-Optical Coarse Earth and Sun Sensor for Satellites
SpaceTech, a company that designs, develops, and manufactures reliable, innovative, high quality, and cost-effective space equipment and subsystems for space missions – from Earth observation, navigation, and science to new space mega-constellations has introduced a new Coarse Earth and Sun Sensor (CESS) for satellites. The CESS is a passive device that can provide instantaneous attitude information,…
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Odin Space Successfully Demonstrates its Sensor Technology Hosted by D-Orbit’s ION Satellite
ODIN Space has successfully demonstrated the operation of its space debris sensor technology in orbit, as part of the recent SpaceX Transporter 8 mission. The company’s demo sensor was integrated into the D-Orbit ION satellite and has successfully started to capture data from its surroundings. By 2030, space debris is forecast to cost the space…
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Teledyne’s Visible and Infrared Detectors to Aid Space Imaging of ESA’s Euclid Dark Universe Space Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Euclid Dark Universe space astrophysics mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 1. Euclid will explore the evolution of the dark Universe, constructing a three-dimensional map of the Universe by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years. While dark energy accelerates the expansion…