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JAXA Selects Astroscale Japan for Phase II of Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Program
JAXA selected Astroscale Japan, a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings, as the commercial partner for Phase II of JAXA’s Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) program. Astroscale Japan announced the partnership on April 25. Eddie Kato, president and managing director of Astroscale Japan, said Astroscale has demonstrated several capabilities during Phase I of the mission and…
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SES’s O3b mPOWER Satellite System Begins Providing Global Connectivity Services
SES announced that O3b mPOWER, its second-generation software-enabled satellite system, is now operational and can provide high-performance connectivity services around the globe. With the first six O3b mPOWER satellites operating at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or 8,000km away from the Earth and with extensive ground infrastructure built around the world, SES will be introducing services…
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SES’s O3b mPOWER Satellite System Begins Providing Global Connectivity Services
SES announced that O3b mPOWER, its second-generation software-enabled satellite system, is now operational and can provide high-performance connectivity services around the globe. With the first six O3b mPOWER satellites operating at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or 8,000km away from the Earth and with extensive ground infrastructure built around the world, SES will be introducing services…
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If Starship is real, we’re going to need big cargo movers on the Moon and Mars
As a SpaceX engineer working on the Starship program about five years ago, Jaret Matthews could see the future of spaceflight quite clearly and began to imagine the possibilities. For decades everything that went to space had to be carefully measured, optimized for mass, and serve an extremely specialized purpose. But Starship, Matthews believed, held…
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2024 China-Latin American and Caribbean States Space Cooperation Forum Wuhan Declaration——Space promotes the building a community of shared future fo
We, the representatives of China National Space Administration and ministries, space agencies, institutions of Latin American and Caribbean states， Taking into account the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, adopted in 1967, as well as the common interest…
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PLD Space Secures €120 Million in Funding as it Advances Toward MIURA 5 Launch
The Spanish company PLD Space has attained 120 million euros in funding to date, thus ensuring it can meet its upcoming technological and corporate milestones, culminating in the launch of the MIURA 5 mission at the end of 2025. Since its foundation, the company, which made history in October 2023 with the successful flight of…
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Lynred Selected to Develop Multispectral Infrared Detectors for Sentinel-2 NG Mission
Lynred, one of the leading global providers of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense, and commercial markets, announced its selection, in an open bidding process, to develop an advanced multispectral infrared detector for the Sentinel-2 Next-Generation (NG) land monitoring satellite mission; the continuation of the Sentinel-2 mission. Both missions are led by the European…
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Lynred Selected to Develop Multispectral Infrared Detectors for Sentinel-2 NG Mission
Lynred, one of the leading global providers of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense, and commercial markets, announced its selection, in an open bidding process, to develop an advanced multispectral infrared detector for the Sentinel-2 Next-Generation (NG) land monitoring satellite mission; the continuation of the Sentinel-2 mission. Both missions are led by the European…
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CESI Awarded Contract from SpaceTech for Solar Cells that Power Global Internet Satellites
The Italian group CESI has secured a contract, with options valued at over one hundred million euros over five years, with Germany’s SpaceTech GmbH, one of the world’s leading companies in the production of space systems. According to the agreement, CESI is tasked with providing hundreds of thousands of solar cells over these five years,…
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SES’ O3b mPOWER MEO System is Now Operational, Service Rollout to Follow
SES‘ new software-enabled Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite system O3b mPOWER is now operational, the European satellite operator announced Wednesday. With six out of 13 O3b mPOWER satellites launched, SES said it will be rolling out services ranging from tens of Mbps to multiple gigabits per second to customers “in the coming months.” SES O3b mPOWER…