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Rivada Space Networks Strengthens US Team Through Multiple Hirings
Rivada Space Networks has strengthened its U.S. team through multiple hirings for key roles. John Guiney joins as Chief Operations Officer; Michael Abad-Santos is Head of Sales for the U.S. and deputy Chief Commercial Officer; and Jeffrey Chandler has joined as Director of Sales, U.S. As the first unified global communications network, Rivada’s Outernet is…
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Umbra Begins Selling SAR Satellites to Customers
Satellite data provider Umbra is expanding its business from selling imagery collected by its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, to selling the satellites to customers. Umbra announced its new Mission Solutions line on Wednesday. The company said it is now offering governments and large multinational corporations the ability to purchase their own satellites, individual components…
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SES Space & Defense Secures $46 Million US Air Force Contract for Airborne Satellite Services
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a multi-year contract worth USD 46.8 million by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC) to provide Geostationary (GEO) Ku-band satellite services in support of the ACC remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) training and testing program. SES Space & Defense will use…
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Orbit and Viasat to Collaborate on Airborne Satcom Terminals
Orbit Communication Systems is working with Viasat on multi-purpose satcom terminals for airborne platforms, the companies announced Wednesday. The terminals will be designed for a range of mission aircraft, rotary wing and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Orbit plans to introduce the next-generation of airborne satcom systems to integrate across Viasat’s global Ka-band networks, including ViaSat-3…
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After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers
The emails from United Launch Alliance started popping into the inboxes of photographers a few days after the Fourth of July holiday. Although that day is meant to celebrate freedom and the red glare of rockets, the communication threatened to strip both from some of the company’s most ardent devotees. The message from the launch…
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After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers
The emails from United Launch Alliance started popping into the inboxes of photographers a few days after the Fourth of July holiday. Although that day is meant to celebrate freedom and the red glare of rockets, the communication threatened to strip both from some of the company’s most ardent devotees. The message from the launch…
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Airbus CEO Addresses Changes to Space Segment After $1B Charge
Significant charges in the Space business impacted Airbus in its second quarter financial results, as CEO Guillaume Faury detailed changes to the Space business on July 30 to deal with the issues. Airbus reported its first-half results for 2024 on July 30. Consolidated revenues increased 4% year-over-year with higher commercial aircraft delivered and higher volume…
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Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Successfully Demonstrates Fly-Around Observations of Space Debris
Astroscale Japan, a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings, a company in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, announced that its commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite, Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J), has achieved an unprecedented technical milestone for a commercial company: the controlled fly-around operations of the space debris (rocket upper stage) capturing…
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ESA’s Hera Satellite Trio to Use Inter-Linked Radio Technology from Tekever
ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defense involves not just one spacecraft but three: two shoebox-sized CubeSats will fly up to a few dozen kilometers from their mothership around the Didymos binary asteroid system. Keeping this trio in communication to fulfill their mission needs while ensuring their safe separation is the task of a novel inter-satellite…
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Northrop Grumman Completes PDR for 74 Tranche 2 SDA Satellites
Northrop Grumman completed the preliminary design review for the 74 satellites it is building for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Beta and Tranche 2 Alpha configurations. Northrop Grumman is building 38 satellites for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL)-Alpha constellation under a contract awarded in October 2023. These satellites are designed to transmit beyond…