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Operator CEOs Take Stock of the Opportunities for an Industry in Flux
PARIS — The satellite industry is undergoing massive change as many of the largest satellite operators consolidate to deal with competition from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. During the operator panel in Paris at World Space Business Week on Sept. 16, Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg described the current environment as a “quantum period of change” unlike anything…
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RTX’s Raytheon and Northrop Grumman Completes the Static Fire Test of Solid Rocket Motor
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman have successfully completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia. The test demonstrated wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications and provided data to support digital modeling and simulations that validated the design maturity and…
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Momentus Collaborates with Lodestar Space for Robotics in Space
Momentus, a provider of satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, have announced that the company has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with Lodestar Space to integrate a robotic arm onto a Momentus Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV). Momentus will work with Lodestar Space to define the…
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Kratos to Provide Ground Solution for Thaicom-10 Satellite
Thaicom awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions the contract for an end-to-end ground system for the Thaicom-10 satellite, announcing the award on Sept. 16. Under the contract, Kratos will deliver a satellite operation center, which will allow Thaicom to fly the satellite, plan the satellite resources, and orchestrate the satellite payload configuration along with the…
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NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge Concludes with Final Innovations for Lunar Power Solutions
NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. “For astronauts to maintain…
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ESA Director General Details High-Risk, High-Reward Investment with European VCs
PARIS — In an address at the World Space Business Week (WSBW) event in Paris, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher told attendees that the ESA Directorate for Commercialization he launched in 2021 has now signed 47 individual agreements with venture capitalists worth 460 million euros ($511.8 million). According to Aschbacher, who established the…
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Intelsat Invests in Multi-Orbit Terminal Strategy With Greenerwave
Intelsat is investing in a multi-orbit terminal strategy with an investment and strategic agreement with antenna tech company Greenerwave. Intelsat announced Sept. 16 that working with Greenerwave, it plans to offer multi-orbit satcom solutions for all relevant business units including commercial aviation, government, and mobility applications by the first half of 2025. Greenerwave is a…
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NGA Selects 10 Vendors to Compete Under $290M Luno A Global Monitoring Program
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 10 companies to compete for task orders under a potential five-year, $290 million contract seeking commercial data and analytic services that monitor and assess global economic, environmental, and military activity. NGA announced the award on Sept. 13. Airbus Group’s Airbus U.S. Space & Defense business, Booz Allen Hamilton, BlackSky Technologies, BlueHalo, CACI, Electromagnetic Systems, Maxar…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 and Electron to extend satellite constellations
This week’s manifest includes the delayed launches of a Falcon 9 with Galileo global positioning satellites and an Electron with a second batch of satellites for Kinéis. SpaceX also launched a batch of 20 Starlink satellites from California as the constellation increases to 6,000 operational satellites. Following last weekend’s return and recovery of the Polaris…
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SES Secures NATO Contract for High-Performance Satellite Services via MEO Constellation
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has awarded SES a contract to deliver secure high-performance low-latency satellite services via its medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, enabling global missions for NATO member government organizations, agencies, and the military. The MEO Global Services (MGS) award represents a three-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at USD 200M, with two…