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Innoflight Delivers Engineering Units to L3Harris for SDA’s T1 Tracking Layer Program
SDA awarded a prototype agreement to L3Harris Technologies last year to provide initial missile warning/missile tracking warfighting capability of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). Innoflight is on contract with L3Harris for the delivery of key avionics, including mesh network encryption/decryption, networking, processing, and precision timing for the SDA T1 Tracking Layer program. Innoflight’s deliverables…
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Sierra Space is blowing up stuff to prove inflatable habitats are safe
Sierra Space says it has demonstrated in a ground test that a full-scale inflatable habitat for a future space station can meet NASA’s recommended safety standards, clearing a technical gate on the road toward building a commercial outpost in low-Earth orbit. During a December test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, Sierra Space’s…
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NASA Reveals Latest Results of Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review
NASA released the outcomes of its 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review, the agency’s process to build a roadmap for exploration of the solar system for the benefit of humanity. The Moon to Mars architecture approach incorporates feedback from U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and the NASA workforce. The 2023 Architecture Concept Review refined…
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IXPE investigates microquasar jets, finds unexpected magnetic field structure
Creating some of the most powerful gravitational forces and fields in the universe, black holes are known for their extreme nature, including the ways in which they can devour and destroy whole planets and stars in a matter of seconds. When black holes consume planets, stars, and other cosmic objects, the matter from the collision…
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French Startup Aldoria Secures Further Funding
Aldoria has secured a further 10 million euros ($10.87 million) in funding after closing a series A funding round. The space situational awareness (SSA) company has now raised 22 million euros ($23.91 million) in funding in total. The funding round was led by Starquest, a dedicated advocate for green financing through Article 9 of the…
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Booz Allen Makes Strategic Investment in Albedo to Develop VLEO Satellite Constellation
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Albedo, the first company to operate satellites in very low earth orbit (VLEO), which enables them to offer ultra-high resolution commercial imagery from space. This investment supports Albedo’s operational constellation deployment and is aligned with Booz…
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Viasat to Connect 150 More Lufthansa Group Aircraft With IFC
German airline Lufthansa Group has selected Viasat to equip more than 150 aircraft – across its Lufthansa, SWISS, and Austrian Airlines fleets – with the European Aviation Network (EAN) in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. The additional 150+ aircraft include Airbus A320s, A320neos and A220s fleet types. EAN combines S-band satellite coverage provided by Viasat with a…
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Daily Telescope: Shooting a laser into the sky from Antarctica
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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Voyager Space Appoints Marshall Smith as Chief Technology Officer
Voyager Space, one of the global leaders in space exploration, announced the appointment of Marshall Smith as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and as a member of Starlab Space’s Board of Directors. Smith, who previously served as Voyager Space’s Vice President of Exploration, will lead the technical strategy for Voyager’s enterprise and guide the…
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Orbit Fab and ClearSpace to Build an In-Space Refueling Service
Orbit Fab and ClearSpace announced a new partnership on Wednesday to create an in-space refueling service. Under an MoU, Orbit Fab and ClearSpace have agreed to leverage their complementary capabilities by creating a refueling service architecture that pairs an Orbit Fab fuel depot with a ClearSpace shuttle. Both are in-orbit servicing companies, working to offer…