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Hawaiian Airlines Completes Starlink Install Across Airbus Fleet
Hawaiian Airlines has completed installing Starlink in-flight connectivity (IFC) across its entire Airbus fleet. The airline is now offering Starlink Wi-Fi free of charge for passengers after completing installation on its fleet of 24 Airbus A330 aircraft. The airline is also planning to install Starlink on its flagship Boeing 787-9 fleet, but not on its…
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GomSpace Provides Advanced Mission Control System for ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite Mission
GomSpace has delivered an efficient and cost-effective “new space” solution for operating the Arctic Weather Satellite, a mission aimed at enhancing global weather forecasting. GomSpace is leveraging their Hands-off Operations Platform (HOOP) mission control system (MCS) in collaboration with OHB. The HOOP MCS brings advanced automation capabilities to the mission, by enabling the operator to…
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Starfish Space wins $15M NASA award for a SSPICY mission to visit dead satellites
An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter spacecraft in orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has won a three-year, $15 million contract from NASA for a mission aimed at doing up-close inspections of defunct satellites in orbit. Such inspections, to be carried out using Starfish’s Otter spacecraft starting in 2027, could blaze a…
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Deimos Wins ESA Contract for DRACO Controlled Breakup Mission
Deimos won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract for the first phase of a demonstration of a controlled satellite break-up process. The award announced Tuesday is a 3 million euro ($3.4 million) deal for the first phase of mission development for DRACO, which stands for Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object. The mission’s goal is to…
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Radian Aerospace completes its first round of ground testing for prototype space plane
Radian Aerospace’s subscale prototype for its Radian One space plane sits on a runway in the United Arab Emirates. (Radian Aerospace Photo) Seattle-based Radian Aerospace has finished the first round of ground taxi testing for a prototype aircraft that’s meant to blaze the trail for a first-of-its-kind, single-stage-to-orbit space plane. Radian said the low-speed runway…
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Iridium Plans Standards-Based Service, NTN Direct
Iridium announced more details about its direct-to-device ambitions, announcing a service called Iridium NTN Direct that will connect people and things to Iridium’s network using 3GPP standards. Iridium announced Wednesday that 3GPP accepted the company’s request to extend the functionality of Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) for Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) into the Work Plan for…
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NASA is ready to start buying Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is free to compete for NASA contracts with its new Vulcan rocket after a successful test flight earlier this year, ending a period where SpaceX was the only company competing for rights to launch the agency’s large science missions. For several years, ULA was unable to bid for NASA launch contracts after…
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ReOrbit CEO Talks the Company’s First GEO Order
Finnish startup ReOrbit secured its first GEO order to build a communications satellite for Malaysian energy and tech company Uzma Berhad, in a development the company hopes will open the door to further GEO business. The satellite is based on ReOrbit’s flagship GEO platform, which recently passed an internal system design review. Smaller than traditional…
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Viasat Secures $33.6M USAF Contract to Develop AESA Systems for Tactical Aircraft Satcom
Viasat, Inc., a global company in satellite communications, announced it was awarded a $33.6 million contract including options from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program to develop and deliver Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) systems to enable resilient satellite communications for tactical aircraft, including…
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Eutelsat Wins Maritime LEO Deal with Inmarsat
Eutelsat has won a new deal with Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, which will see a more integrated multi-orbit solution bought to the maritime sector. The goal of this will to bring better high-speed, low-latency broadband solutions in maritime. Inmarsat Maritime will use Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO network for integration into its NexusWave connectivity solution. The…