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Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky
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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Rocket Lab Sets New Annual Launch Record with Successful Launch of SAR Satellite for iQPS
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its 42nd Electron rocket and deployed a satellite for Japan-based Earth imaging company the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). The mission was Rocket Lab’s 10th Electron launch for the year, surpassing the Company’s previous annual record of nine launches…
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Sidus Space to Execute Reverse Stock Split to Raise Share Price
Sidus Space will execute a reverse stock split on Tuesday to raise its share price, after receiving approval from its stockholders. The company will reverse split its stock so that every 100 shares of issued and outstanding common stock will be exchanged for 1 share of common stock. This is intended to raise the company’s…
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HawkEye 360 to Acquire Aurora Insight Assets from Maxar Intelligence
HawkEye 360 is acquiring two radio frequency (RF) satellites from Maxar Intelligence that were part of Aurora Insight before Maxar acquired the company. HawkEye announced Monday it is acquiring the RF Solutions business from Maxar Intelligence, which includes two existing RF satellites, RF scanning intellectual property, a multi-year RF database, and personnel. Maxar Intelligence previously…
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Lynk Global to Go Public With A-Rod’s Slam SPAC
Satellite startup Lynk Global, which has proven satellite-to-cell technology, plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Alex Rodriguez’s SPAC, Slam Corp. Lynk and Slam Corp. announced Monday they have signed a non-binding letter of intent for a potential business combination. They intend to finalize the business combination in the…
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2023 Year in Review Podcast 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 of On Orbit, Via Satellite’s editors…
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UK Space Industry Boosted by Thales Contract Award
The U.K. space industry has been boosted by a new contract award by Thales Alenia Space. The company has selected the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF), at RAL Space in Oxfordshire, for the first comprehensive assembly, integration and test campaign of the European Space Agency’s FLEX (Fluorescence Explorer) satellite. Thales Alenia Space announced the…
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Blue Origin’s 24th New Shepard Mission to Carry 33 Science Payloads to Space
New Shepard will fly its 24th mission on Monday, December 18. The manifest includes 33 payloads and 38,000 Club for the Future postcards from students around the world. The NS-24 launch window opens at 8:30 AM CST/14:30 UTC from Launch Site One in West Texas. This mission will bring the number of payloads flown to…
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Explaining the Six Components of a Remote Sensing System
A remote sensing system has six components to gather valuable data. In an era of technological advancements, remote sensing technologies have emerged as invaluable tools for understanding and monitoring the Earth’s surface. These innovative technologies enable us to gather data by sensing the energy emitted, or reflected, by a geographical area. Whether for scientific research,…
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Tyvak International Successfully Completes Test Readiness Review for Milani Nanosatellite
Tyvak International, one of the European leaders in small satellite solutions, announced together with its project partners the successful achievement of the Test Readiness Review of the Milani spacecraft. A critical component of the Hera planetary defense mission, Milani will be the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first deep-space nanosatellite. Milani will also be the first…