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NASA’s BurstCube Achieves Significant Milestones on Journey to Launch
Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions. Members of the team have also delivered the satellite to their partner Nanoracks (part of Voyager Space) in Houston, Texas, where it will be packed for launch.…
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HawkEye 360 Enhances Spectrum Scanning with Acquisition of RF Solutions from Maxar
HawkEye 360, the world’s leading defense technology company for space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, announced the acquisition of RF Solutions from Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. RF Solutions was formed from the Aurora Insight acquisition that Maxar Intelligence completed in January 2023. “The on-orbit assets and expertise of the…
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Daily Telescope: James Webb zooms in on Uranus
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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Yahsat to Merge with Fellow UAE Geospatial Company Bayanat
Yahsat has announced a stunning piece of consolidation as it looks to be a part of a brand new AI-powered space technology powerhouse in the Middle East and beyond. It is planning to merge with Bayanat, an AI-powered geospatial solutions provider, also based in the UAE. The combined operation will have an implied market capitalization…
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Yahsat to Merge with Fellow UAE Geospatial Company Bayanat
Yahsat has announced a stunning piece of consolidation as it looks to be a part of a brand new AI-powered space technology powerhouse in the Middle East and beyond. It is planning to merge with Bayanat, an AI-powered geospatial solutions provider, also based in the UAE. The combined operation will have an implied market capitalization…
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SaxaVord Awarded Spaceport License by Civil Aviation Authority
A significant historic milestone has been achieved by SaxaVord Spaceport with the award of a license by the Civil Aviation Authority. It becomes the first licensed vertical launch spaceport in the UK and Western Europe following extensive assessment by the space regulator to check that appropriate safety, security, and environmental criteria are met, and that…
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Viasat and Safran Data Systems Collaborate to Transform Launch Vehicle Telemetry with InRange
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, is working with Safran Data Systems to jointly bring InRange to market so launch providers and spaceports can relay launch vehicles’ telemetry in flight throughout their trajectory – and without having to rely on ground networks. InRange uses Viasat’s global L-band satellite fleet – which Viasat…
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2023 Year in Review With Via Satellite Editors
2023 was a year of massive news in the satellite industry. From the Viasat/Inmarsat and Eutelsat/OneWeb mergers, to new leaders at top operators, and major constellation updates from Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and Telesat Lightspeed, Via Satellite had no shortage of things to cover this year. In this episode, Rachel Jewett, Mark Holmes and Jeff…
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Blue Origin launches New Shepard rocket on return to flight mission
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the launch site in Van Horn, Texas, on the NS-24 mission. This was the first launch of a New Shepard rocket since the vehicle was grounded in the after math of the NS-23 anomaly. Image: Blue Origin Updated 3:11 p.m. EST: Added comments and additional mission…
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Space X Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral
A Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 6-34 mission. Image: Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Monday night after high winds kept the rocket grounded last week. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 with 23 Starlink satellites occurred at 11:01 p.m.…