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1st Images of China’s Completed Space Station Released
China released the first images of its completed space station on Nov 28 at a press conference in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The images were shot by the Shenzhou-16 crew with a handheld camera. They show the entire configuration of the space station in orbit with Earth in the background. The space station…
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Arcfield Completes Acquisition of Orion Space Solutions
Arcfield, a leading government technology and mission support provider, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Orion Space Solutions, a Colorado-based developer of end-to-end space mission capabilities and solutions. The acquisition of Orion enhances Arcfield’s space exploration and hypersonic detection and tracking capabilities for agencies in the Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence…
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Africa’s Amini Raises Additional $4 Million to Launch Environmental Space Data Platform
Amini, an African environmental data collection and intelligence infrastructure company, has raised another raised $4 million in a seed funding round. Amini announced the successful funding round, Nov. 30. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce’s global investment arm, and Female Founders Fund, a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies.…
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With another record broken, the world’s spaceports are busier than ever
Led by SpaceX and China, the world’s launch providers have put more rockets and payloads into orbit so far in 2023 than in any prior year, continuing an upward trend in launch activity over the last five years. On Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration reported that it screened more than 2.9 million airline passengers making…
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Tata Advanced Systems and Satellogic Partner to Build LEO Satellites in India
Tata Advanced Systems Limited, one of India’s leading private sector players for aerospace and defense solutions, and Satellogic, a leading company in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (EO) data collection, announced their collaboration for establishing and developing local space technology capabilities in India. This collaboration is a first step in TASL’s satellite strategy and a significant…
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Blue Origin nearing New Glenn milestones ahead of debut flight
As 2023 nears its close, there has been a large increase in publicly visible movement from Blue Origin around its Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral facilities. With sightings of New Glenn booster segments, upper-stage tank sections, payload fairings, and new support hardware arriving at Port Canaveral, it seems Blue Origin is pushing to hit…
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Quantum Dice Releases Random Number Generator Secure Tech for Space Systems
Quantum Dice is launching its first product in the space arena. The Zenith Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG), a product designed for space, will enable secure quantum communication technologies in the upcoming SpeQtral-1 satellite mission. Quantum Dice and SpeQtral announced the launch, Nov. 30. SpeQtral-1, SpeQtral’s second quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite, builds on the…
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NASA Conducts Third Hot Fire of Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Testing its In-Flight Capability
NASA conducted the third RS-25 engine hot fire in a critical 12-test certification series on Nov. 29, demonstrating a key capability necessary for flight of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket during Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. NASA is conducting a series of tests to certify new manufacturing processes for producing RS-25 engines…
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NASA goes hard at flight testing for future Martian helicopters
Ingenuity returns to its flight test roots NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has flown 66 times since it was released from the belly of Perseverance back in April 2021. What was just suppose to be a five flight test campaign, Ingenuity has moved on to operating as Perseverance‘s scout. However, in recent flights, Ingenuity has returned to…
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Nine-Month Sales Boost Offsets SatixFy’s Higher Operating Costs in Latest Financial Results
Israeli satellite communication chipsets and systems developer SatixFy boasted an increase in product sales and revenue in its consolidated financial results for the nine-month period ending in September. The results, released early on Thursday, showed SatixFy’s total revenue increasing 31% to $8.9 million. The company reached $6.8 million in revenue during the first nine months of…