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DARPA Launch Challenge offers $10M top prize for rapid-turnaround orbital liftoffs
Read more →: DARPA Launch Challenge offers $10M top prize for rapid-turnaround orbital liftoffsThe DARPA Launch Challenge is designed to provide more incentives for the development of flexible, responsive launch systems.…
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Funding round raises $214 million for SpaceX so far — and it’s far from finished
Read more →: Funding round raises $214 million for SpaceX so far — and it’s far from finishedNews Brief: Last week we learned that SpaceX is looking to raise more than $500 million in a…
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KSAT to Provide Ground Station Services for Hawkeye
Read more →: KSAT to Provide Ground Station Services for HawkeyeHawkEye 360 has selected Norway’s Kongsberg Satellite Service (KSAT) to provide ground station services for its pathfinder mission.…
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SpaceX launches NASA’s TESS spacecraft on mission to seek out alien planets
Read more →: SpaceX launches NASA’s TESS spacecraft on mission to seek out alien planetsSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lofts NASA’s TESS probe into space. (NASA via YouTube) SpaceX has launched NASA’s Transiting…
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STECCOM to Use SES Capacity for IFC Services Over Europe
Read more →: STECCOM to Use SES Capacity for IFC Services Over EuropeSputnik Telecommunications Entertainment Company (STECCOM), a Russian satellite communications operator and developer of Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)-based…
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Spaceflight reserves two rideshare missions on Vega rocket
Read more →: Spaceflight reserves two rideshare missions on Vega rocketArtist’s concept of the Vega rocket’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service dispenser deploying multiple satellites in orbit. Credit: ESA…
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Electric Thruster Challenges Incumbents with High Performance
Read more →: Electric Thruster Challenges Incumbents with High PerformancePhase Four, a provider of electric Radio Frequency (RF) thrusters for in-space propulsion, announced the results of third…
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Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’
Read more →: Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’A graphic shows the preliminary design for satellites that Airbus is manufacturing for OneWeb. EarthNow plans to use…
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SpaceX successfully launches TESS on a mission to search for near-Earth exoplanets
Read more →: SpaceX successfully launches TESS on a mission to search for near-Earth exoplanetsSpaceX has launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS – with the launch on the Falcon 9…
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Backed by Government, Telesat to Initiate First Customer LEO Trials This Year
Read more →: Backed by Government, Telesat to Initiate First Customer LEO Trials This YearAs part of its 2018 federal budget, the government of Canada has committed to providing $100 million for…
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Proton-M returns with Russian military launch
Read more →: Proton-M returns with Russian military launchRussia’s Proton-M rocket made its first flight in six months Thursday, successfully deploying a Blagovest military communications satellite.…
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3 Companies Join Forces to Expand Commercial Lunar Comms Opportunities
Read more →: 3 Companies Join Forces to Expand Commercial Lunar Comms OpportunitiesSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and Astrobotic have announced an agreement to collaborate on…