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Viasat and Airbus Supply Satcom Solution for Air Corps C295 MSA Aircraft
Viasat and Airbus equipped two Irish Defence Forces C295 MSA aircraft with a Viasat terminal for managed satcom service, the companies announced this week. Airbus delivered the C295 MSA multirole surveillance aircraft earlier this year. The aircraft were delivered to the Irish Air Corps (IAC), a division of the Irish Defence Forces focused on the…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX continues toward 100 launch goal
As SpaceX continues toward its goal of launching 100 times in 2023, the company launched two Starlink missions this week — one from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florida and the second from SLC-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California. Later in the…
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Sidus Space Selected by Bechtel to Manufacture Additional Cables for Mobile Launcher 2
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service company announced that it has been selected by Bechtel to manufacture additional cables in support of the NASA Mobile Launcher 2 contract for the Artemis missions. This follows Sidus’ prior contract with Bechtel to fabricate custom cables and populate unique electronics cabinets supporting the launch control subsystem and…
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Albedo Awarded Electro-Optical Capabilities Contract by National Reconnaissance Office
Albedo, one of the leaders in building Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites for ultra-high resolution imaging, announced that it has been awarded a 2.5-year contract, with additional flexibility to extend it further, from the NRO’s Commercial Systems Program Office (CSPO) as part of the Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Framework, specifically the…
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Sierra Space Awarded DARPA Contract for Lunar Architecture Capability Study
Sierra Space, a pure-play commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced that it secured a significant contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Under this contract, Sierra Space will embark on a groundbreaking research and development initiative, the 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study. Sierra Space…
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Three robotic missions target Moon landings over one week in January
Intuitive Machines engineers loading the IM-1 mission Nova-C lunar lander into its custom container in Houston, TX. Image: Intuitive Machines In a blend of interesting circumstances and happenstance, two private companies and Japan’s space agency are all poised to land on the Moon in the back half of January 2024. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency…
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NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech
SpaceX and NASA could take a tentative step toward orbital refueling on the next test flight of Starship, but the US space agency says officials haven’t made a final decision on when to begin demonstrating cryogenic propellant transfer capabilities that are necessary to return astronauts to the Moon. NASA is keen on demonstrating orbital refueling…
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UK Space Agency Commits Funding for Snowdonia Space Centre in Wales
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has allocated 820,000 pounds ($1.03 million) to support the development of a new Space Technology Test Centre (STTC) in Wales. The Snowdonia Space Centre secured this funding under the Agencies Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund. The Snowdonia Space Centre will develop the STTC, in partnership with Newton Launch Systems at the…
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UK Space Agency Commits Funding for Snowdonia Space Centre in Wales
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has allocated 820,000 pounds ($1.03 million) to support the development of a new Space Technology Test Centre (STTC) in Wales. The Snowdonia Space Centre secured this funding under the Agencies Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund. The Snowdonia Space Centre will develop the STTC, in partnership with Newton Launch Systems at the…
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Daily Telescope: A super-hot jet 1,000 light-years from Earth
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…