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Ovzon Wins US DoD Deal for T7 Mobile Terminal
Ovzon has landed a new deal for its T7 mobile satellite terminal. The company recieved a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which will represent the first delivery of this mobile satellite terminal. Ovzon announced the deal on Feb. 9. The Ovzon T7 mobile satellite terminal is a small and light terminal. At…
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Daily Telescope: A solar eclipse from the surface of Mars
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a…
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IDEFIX Phobos rover sent to Japan ahead of mission to Mars
The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is JAXA’s lead mission that plans to survey and explore Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos. While the Japanese agency will build the main payload, the German Space Agency (DLR) and the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) will contribute to the mission. “IDEFIX,” a small secondary payload, will…
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Aalyria Demonstrates Multi-Orbit Network Orchestration to the DoD
Aalyria recently conducted a demonstration of its Spacetime network orchestration software platform, integrating assets from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial satellite operators and companies. Its software orchestrated a multi-orbit, multi-band, multi-domain network bringing together assets from the DoD, European Space Agency (ESA), Comtech, Eutelsat OneWeb, Intelsat, Viasat, and others. Aalyria announced the…
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NASA’s DSN Experimental Antenna Enables New Space Exploration Capabilities
NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN)’s experimental antenna has recently received radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space. This shows that the giant dish antennas of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which communicate with spacecraft via radio waves, can be retrofitted for optical, or laser, communications. By…
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A sleuthing enthusiast says he found the US military’s X-37B spaceplane
It turns out some of the informed speculation about the US military’s latest X-37B spaceplane mission was pretty much spot-on. When the semi-classified winged spacecraft launched on December 28, it flew into orbit on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which is much larger than the Atlas V and Falcon 9 rockets used to…
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Rocket Report: US military still wants point-to-point; India’s big 2024 ambitions
Welcome to Edition 6.30 of the Rocket Report! Looking ahead, there are some interesting launches coming up in the middle of this month. Here are some we have our eyes on: Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander on a Falcon 9 and a re-flight of Japan’s big H3 rocket next week; then there’s an Electron launch of…
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Rocket Lab Targets Launch of Astroscale Orbital Debris Removal Satellite This Month
An orbital debris removal research project by Astroscale Japan Inc. is to launch later this month or in early March aboard an Electron rocket by Rocket Lab. The Rocket Lab Electron, carrying Astroscale’s ADRAS-J satellite, is to lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. “The mission is the first phase of an orbital debris…
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Synspective to Contribute to Natural Disaster Preparedness in Vietnam
Rendering of Synspective satellites. Photo: Synspective Synspective is teaming up with the National Remote Sensing Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam and Fujitsu Vietnam to help with natural disaster preparedness, natural resource management, and economic and social development. The MoU between the three parties was announced on Feb. 8. Synspective, a…
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Building robots for “Zero Mass” space exploration
Sending 1 kilogram to Mars will set you back roughly $2.4 million, judging by the cost of the Perseverance mission. If you want to pack up supplies and gear for every conceivable contingency, you’re going to need a lot of those kilograms. But what if you skipped almost all that weight and only took a…