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SWISSto12 Delivers Key RF Products to Northrop Grumman for GEOStar-3 Satellite Program
St12 RF Solutions, the US entity of the leading manufacturer of advanced satellite products, payloads, and Radio Frequency (RF) systems SWISSto12, announced it has developed, qualified, and delivered three fully integrated RF Antenna Feed Chains in various bands for the payload of Northrop Grumman’s commercial GEOStar-3 satellite. SWISSto12 completed the qualification program in January 2024,…
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Amazon Ramps Up Kuiper Production, Starts Workforce Training Program
Amazon is ramping up production for its satellite broadband constellation Project Kuiper. Satellite manufacturing is now underway at a recently opened full-rate factory in Kirkland, Washington. Amazon is also opening a new logistics facility in Everett, Washington, and starting a new satellite technician certificate program with a local technical college. Amazon announced the updates on…
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Carnival Corporation Deploys Starlink Across Entire Cruise Fleet
Carnival Corporation completed deploying Starlink across its entire cruise fleet, the company announced Tuesday. Carnival reports that this is part of a connectivity strategy that quadrupled fleetwide bandwidth since 2019. The rollout includes more than 90 ships across Carnival Cruise Line, AIDA Cruises, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises,…
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SpaceX launches 50th Falcon 9 rocket of 2024 on Starlink mission
SpaceX launches its 50th Falcon 9 rocket of 2024 in support of the Starlink 8-7 mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX continues to expand its Starlink constellation that offer Direct to Cell capability through its Falcon 9 launch on Tuesday. There were 13 Direct to Cell-capable Starlink satellites among the 20 that launched from Vandenberg Space Force…
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Avanti Communications Launches LEO Services in South Africa
Avanti Communications is launching LEO satellite connectivity services in South Africa. It is partnering with Q-KON, a satellite engineering enterprise for southern Africa, to deliver Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity from Eutelsat OneWeb. Avanti announced the launch of these services, May 13. The deal bolsters Avanti’s multi-orbit solution and means the company can now offer a…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network sets up logistics site and training program
Students at Lake Washington Institute of Technology get hands-on lab training. (LWIT Photo) Amazon says it’s establishing a logistics facility in Everett, Wash., and partnering with a technical college in Kirkland, Wash., to boost the supply chain and workforce pipeline for its Project Kuiper satellite broadband network. Project Kuiper is Amazon’s $10 billion effort to…
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ispace EUROPE Partners with CDS to Transport Location Measurement Technology to the Moon
ispace EUROPE S.A., the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of ispace, and Control Data Systems SRL have signed a payload services agreement to transport precise location measurement equipment to the Moon, the two companies announced. CDS’s technology, which combines precision localization with telecommunications, uses Ultra-Wideband for determining precise positions and was developed specifically for space applications with support…
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Blue Origin sets the date for its first crewed suborbital space trip in 21 months
A photo from August 2022 shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship sitting on its West Texas launch pad in advance of the company’s most recent crewed mission. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has set the date for the long-delayed start of its next chapter in the history of spaceflight. Six…
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Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches
It has been nearly four years since the US Air Force made its selections for companies to launch military payloads during the mid-2020s. The military chose United Launch Alliance, and its Vulcan rocket, to launch 60 percent of these missions; and it chose SpaceX, with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters, to launch 40…
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Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser prepares for pre-launch journey to the Cape
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane shown inside a test chamber at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Image: Sierra Space Sierra Space is getting one step closer to finally seeing its Dream Chaser spaceplane reach the launch pad. The spacecraft completed its environmental testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio,…