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NRO Awards 5 Contracts for Commercial Electro-Optical Imagery
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) said on Dec. 5 that it has awarded Airbus‘ U.S. space and defense division, Albedo Space, Hydrosat, Muon Space, and Turion Space Strategic Commercial Enhancements (SCE) contracts “to assess and leverage commercial electro-optical (EO) capabilities.” In May, NRO released a draft solicitation on commercial EO and related phenomenologies to include infrared and non-Earth imagery. In April, NRO…
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NRO Awards 5 Contracts for Commercial Electro-Optical Imagery
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) said on Dec. 5 that it has awarded Airbus‘ U.S. space and defense division, Albedo Space, Hydrosat, Muon Space, and Turion Space Strategic Commercial Enhancements (SCE) contracts “to assess and leverage commercial electro-optical (EO) capabilities.” In May, NRO released a draft solicitation on commercial EO and related phenomenologies to include infrared and non-Earth imagery. In April, NRO…
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Spire Global to Build and Operate Six Satellites for Lacuna Space’s IoT Constellation
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, was awarded a Space Services contract by Lacuna Space, a leading satellite IoT connectivity provider. Under the agreement, Spire will initially build and launch six satellites carrying Lacuna Space’s payload and antenna, with the opportunity to scale the constellation to dozens of satellites.…
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PlanetiQ GNOMES-4 with World’s Most Accurate Weather Sensor Launched Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
PlanetiQ, an innovator of global atmospheric observing systems, has launched its fourth generation Radio Occultation (RO) measurement satellite, GNOMES-4, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The satellite was successfully deployed into Low-Earth Orbit at 10:36 am PT on December 1, 2023. GNOMES-4 is equipped with the world’s best…
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SpaceX sends 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on 90th Falcon launch of 2023
A Falcon 9 rocket stands at the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket is supporting the Starlink 6-33 mission for SpaceX. Image: Adam Bernstein Update 12:20 a.m. EST: SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket and landed the booster on the droneship. SpaceX hit another milestone with…
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Daily Telescope: An ancient galaxy behind a veil of dust
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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LeoLabs Partners with Aalyria to Enhance Global Communication Network Security
LeoLabs, the commercial provider of Space Traffic Management (STM), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) services, announced that it signed a partnership agreement with Aalyria, the advanced software-defined and optical networking communications company. LeoLabs and Aalyria seek to combine their complementary expertise and technologies to address space awareness challenges for complex communications…
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Spire to Build and Operate IoT Constellation for Lacuna Space
Spire Global will build and operate a six-satellite IoT constellation for Lacuna Space under a new Space Services contract announced Tuesday. Spire will build six initial satellites at its facility in Glasgow in the United Kingdom. These satellites will scale Lacuna’s constellation, in addition to its existing 10 satellites. Lacuna has the option to scale…
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Spire to Build and Operate IoT Constellation for Lacuna Space
Spire Global will build and operate a six-satellite IoT constellation for Lacuna Space under a new Space Services contract announced Tuesday. Spire will build six initial satellites at its facility in Glasgow in the United Kingdom. These satellites will scale Lacuna’s constellation, in addition to its existing 10 satellites. Lacuna has the option to scale…
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Don’t count on NASA to return humans to the Moon in 2025 or 2026, GAO says
A new report from the Government Accountability Office suggests NASA’s Artemis III mission, which aims to return humans to the Moon’s surface for the first time in more than 50 years, could be delayed from late 2025 until 2027. The readiness of SpaceX’s human-rated lander and new commercial spacesuits developed by Axiom Space are driving…