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Amazon Signs Contract with SpaceX for Three Launches to Support Project Kuiper Deployment
Amazon has signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment plans for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband network. Project Kuiper satellites were designed from the start to accommodate multiple launch providers and vehicles, allowing us to reduce schedule risk and move faster in our mission to…
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Sidus Space Installs NASA Stennis ASTRA Flight Software and Hardware on LizzieSat Satellite
Sidus Space, a Space, and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that it has received its ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications) Flight Software Version 1.0 and ASTRA flight hardware from NASA Stennis and installed it on the Company’s LizzieSat satellite ahead of its first quarter 2024 SpaceX Transporter 10 launch. NASA Stennis has completed its…
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ZhuQue-2 launches on third flight
LandSpace has launched its third ZhuQue-2 rocket on Friday, Dec. 8, at 23:40 UTC. The launch, just like the first two, took place from Launch Site 96 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. Earlier this year, ZhuQue-2 performed its second launch, in which the rocket successfully reached orbit. After the initial launch in…
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Malaysian Energy Company Uzma Taps Satellogic to Further Geospatial Ambitions
Satellogic has won a major new deal with Malaysian energy company Uzma to advance geospatial capabilities in Southeast Asia. The agreement, announced Dec. 7, includes leveraging an EO satellite designed and manufactured by Satellogic that is planned to be launched in the second half of 2024 as ‘UzmaSAT-1’ aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Through…
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Rocket Lab Wins Korean EO Satellite Launch Deal
Rocket Lab has signed a new launch deal in Asia. The company will send an Earth Observation (EO) satellite for the for the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) into orbit on a rideshare mission in the first half of 2024. The deal was announced, Nov. 7. KAIST’s NeonSat-1 will be the primary…
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Space Machines Uses Siemens Xcelerator Software to Design its Orbital Servicing Vehicle
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Space Machines Company (SMC), an Australian space on-orbit services and logistics startup, has used the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to design and build the Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle. One of the largest commercial spacecraft being designed, manufactured, and assembled in Australia, is in development at the University…
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Airbus Awarded €109.3 Million Contract for Advancement of ESA’s TRUTHS Mission
Airbus has been awarded the latest phase in the European Space Agency (ESA) TRUTHS mission as part of ESA’s Earth Observation Earth Watch program. The contract covers a detailed definition of the mission and payload and focuses on payload development and de-risking activities with an option for the procurement of long lead time hardware ahead…
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Thales Alenia Space Inks Multi-Satellite Deal with PT Len Industri for Optical Imagery
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a multi-mission contract with PT Len Industri to provide a state-of-the-art Earth observation constellation combining both radar and optical sensors and dedicated to the Indonesian Ministry of Defence (MoD). Both companies will join forces to deploy an end-to-end system including space and…
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Rocket Report: The final space shuttle stack; SpaceX may extend booster lifetimes
Welcome to Edition 6.22 of the Rocket Report! We’re nearing the end of 2023, and it’s been an incredible year for rocket debuts. Early in the year we saw small lift vehicles from Relativity Space and ABL, and in the spring Japan’s H3 and SpaceX’s Starship rocket. There’s one big one left: United Launch Alliance’s…
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CisLunar Industries Awarded DARPA LunA-10 Contract for Lunar Infrastructure Integration
CisLunar Industries has been awarded a contract with DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the LunA-10 (The 10-Year Lunar Architecture) capability study to advance critical technology efforts in lunar infrastructure development. CisLunar Industries will facilitate the development of the METAL framework (Material Extraction, Treatment, Assembly & Logistics), in collaboration with 13 other visionary…