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Intelsat’s FlexMove Service Expands Land Mobility in India
Intelsat is bringing its FlexMove service to deliver land mobility connectivity to customers in hard-to-reach locations throughout India. This is done in collaboration with Intelsats India-based partner, Cloudcast Digital Limited (CDL). CDL’s technology services are managed by, teleport and video platform service, Planetcast Media Services. CDL and Intelsat introduced Flex services into India in 2022…
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NASA grapples with budget cuts as it undertakes ambitious programs
It’s budget-palooza, NASA nerds. For the first time in more than a decade, the US space agency is grappling with budget cuts. Be forewarned, there will be a lot of numbers in this story, but we’ll do our best to make sense of them. First of all, the space agency only just received its budget…
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UK Launches New Space Census to Collect Data on Workforce
The U.K. is launching a new Space Census as it aims to generate precise data on its space workforce and the challenges ahead as its looks to grow the space industry. This will be the second major census that the U.K. has done in this area. The national survey of space professionals is conducted by…
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Rocket Lab Launches New Satellite for Synspective’s SAR Constellation
Rocket Lab launched the fourth satellite for Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective. Rocket Lab launched the mission on an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 4:03 a.m. on March 13 local time, and 11:03 a.m. EDT on March 12. The mission, “Owl Night Long” is a reference to the…
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NASA Lowers Budget Request for 2025, Asks for $25.4B
NASA released its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal on Monday, requesting $25.4 billion, as the agency works to return humans to the Moon in the Artemis program; advance climate research; and continue the transition to commercial space stations. This total is less than NASA has asked for in recent years. The $25.4 billion ask is…
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Airbus Built EarthCARE Satellite Departs Europe for Vandenberg Launch Site
The Airbus-built EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) spacecraft has left Munich, Germany, and is now on its way aboard an aircraft to its launch site in Vandenberg, California. EarthCARE is planned to be launched in May on a Falcon 9 rocket. EarthCARE is the most complex Earth Explorer mission in the European Space…
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Companies Debut New Brand Identities at SATELLITE
Several satellite companies have rolled out brand refreshes in the past few months gearing up to make significant changes to adjust to an industry in flux. In this story, Via Satellite catches up with Gilat Satellite Networks, River Advisers, and Aldoria to see how they are revamping their corporate brands in a bid to align…
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Umbra Reveals Bistatic SAR Data Captured from its Tandem Pair of Satellites
Umbra, a vertically integrated space technology company, announced the forthcoming release of imagery from its tandem pair of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. Umbra is set to provide customers with bistatic SAR data later in 2024. The monumental launch of Umbra’s first tandem pair of satellites, Umbra-07 and Umbra-08, aboard the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission on…
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Kendall: Fiscal Responsibility Act Constraints Will Slow US Space Force Programs
The fiscal limits in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a March 8 briefing with reporters. “We made a [fiscal 2025] tradeoff in the Air Force between procurement and research and development in order to move forward as fast as…