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Japan’s Axelspace Raises $44 Million in Series D Round
Japanese satellite company Axelspace raised $44 million in a Series D funding round, the company announced Dec. 20. Axelspace, based in Tokyo, has an Earth observation (EO) business and manufactures microsatellites as well. The company said it will use the funds to improve its EO business by expanding its five-satellite constellation. The company also plans to…
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Japan’s Axelspace Raises $44 Million in Series D Round
Japanese satellite company Axelspace raised $44 million in a Series D funding round, the company announced Dec. 20. Axelspace, based in Tokyo, has an Earth observation (EO) business and manufactures microsatellites as well. The company said it will use the funds to improve its EO business by expanding its five-satellite constellation. The company also plans to…
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1,000 sols into their mission, Perseverance and Ingenuity continue to investigate Jezero Crater
After celebrating their 1,000th sol, or Martian day, on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are continuing to explore Jezero Crater on the Red Planet. Recently, the robotic pair completed their extensive investigation of the ancient river delta within Jezero, which contains evidence of flowing water that may have once filled Jezero thousands of…
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ULA stacks Vulcan rocket for the first time ahead of Jan. 8 debut launch
ULA’s fully integrated Vulcan rocket with the addition of the payload fairings added on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. On board is the main payload, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. Image: ULA United Launch Alliance achieved a critical milestone towards the debut of its next launch vehicle. On Wednesday, the company integrated the payload fairing on top…
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Teledyne e2v HiRel Introduces New Space-Screened GaN HEMTs
Teledyne e2v HiRel announced the addition of new space-screened versions of its popular 100 V, 90 A, and 650 V, 30 A high-reliability gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs). TDG650E30BSP TDG100E90BSP TDG100E90TSP The new parts go through NASA Level 1 or ESA Class 1 screening flow and can be brought up to full…
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Virgin Galactic Announces Flight Window for Galactic 06 Commercial Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic Holdings, announced the ‘Galactic 06’ flight window will open January 26, 2024. This will be the Company’s 11th spaceflight to date and will follow a year of unprecedented human spaceflight achievements that included six suborbital spaceflights in six months. Four private astronauts from three different countries will journey to space on Virgin Galactic’s…
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Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket flies for first time in 15 months
With redesigned engine components, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket took off from West Texas and flew to the edge of space on Tuesday with a package of scientific research and technology demonstration experiments. This was the first flight of Blue Origin’s 60-foot-tall (18-meter) New Shepard rocket since September 12, 2022, when an engine failure destroyed…
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Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander Mission Fueled and Ready for Launch
Astrobotic announced their Peregrine lunar lander successfully completed all integration milestones and was mated with United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket payload adapter on November 16, 2023. After a 3-week campaign to fuel and complete final checkouts, the Peregrine spacecraft is ready to launch a historic mission to the Moon on January 8, 2024. Peregrine is…
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SpaceX launches first rocket in over a week
SpaceX breaks week long drought At about 11:00 P.M. ET Monday night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying 23 Starlink satellites from SLC-40 in Florida. While there was nothing special about the payloads, we’ve seen plenty of these missions this year, this launch broke an 11 day launch drought from the company. Before this, the…
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Firefly Aerospace launches its 4th Alpha rocket
Firefly’s Alpha rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a mission for Lockheed Martin. Image: Firefly Aerospace/Trevor Mahlmann.