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Astrolab Secures $160 Million in New Contracts to Deploy Customer Payloads Using FLEX Rover
Venturi Astrolab announced it has reached an agreement with eight enterprise customers to use its Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover to deploy the customers’ payloads on Astrolab’s upcoming mission to the Moon which is known as Mission 1. Five customers are releasing details of their payloads: Argo Space, Astroport, Avalon Space, Interstellar Lab, and…
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Starliner’s April launch date comes down to a January drop test
Starliner finishing up modifications According to McAlister, NASA’s director of its commercial space division, Starliner is still on track to launch its first crewed mission next April. This was said during a meeting of NASA’s Advisory Council’s human exploration and operations committee. “We are on track for that launch,” he said. “We’ve still got a…
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Five Ways Satellite Imagery Is Transforming The Mining Industry
The availability of satellite imagery has revolutionized how we understand what’s happening on our planet. From helping farmers increase crop yields to assisting in disaster response, the images and data collected from space play an important role in many industries. One of the industries that has benefited most from the increased availability of satellite imagery—and…
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L3Harris Space Reflectors Successfully Deployed on Hughes JUPITER 3 Communications Satellite
L3Harris Technologies successfully deployed reflectors onboard the Hughes JUPITER 3 ultra high-density satellite to provide HughesNet internet access across the Americas and to support enterprise networks, in-flight Wi-Fi, cellular backhaul and community Wi-Fi solutions. “L3Harris designed and delivered four reflectors for the largest commercial communications satellite ever built,” said Ed Zoiss, President, of Space and…
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Viasat’s Arctic Broadband Expansion Nears as Spacecraft Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, has announced the second satellite in the upcoming Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission has completed thermal vacuum testing at Northrop Grumman’s Dulles, VA, site: a significant milestone as the project looks to connect the Arctic region with high-speed broadband in the second half of 2024. The mission,…
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With budget cuts and an aging station, can NASA learn to love a gap in orbit?
Just in case you were under any illusions about the age of the International Space Station, Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Zarya module. This Russian-built power and propulsion module formed the cornerstone of the space station, and the first residents arrived two years later. In other words, some hardware on…
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UK Space Agency Invests $59M Across 12 Space Projects
The UK Space Agency is investing 47 million pounds ($59 million) across 12 space projects, the government announced Nov. 22. The investment will be doubled by matched funding from the private sector, representing over 98 million pounds ($122 million) of new funds in space research and development. The funding comes from the Space Clusters Infrastructure…
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NASA Advances Toward Using Plutonium-238 for Fueling Space Missions
The recent shipment of heat source plutonium-238 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory to its Los Alamos National Laboratory is a critical step toward fueling planned NASA missions with radioisotope power systems. This shipment of 0.5 kilograms (a little over 1 pound) of new heat source plutonium oxide is the…
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Intelsat Wins IFC Deal with Aerolíneas Argentinas
Intelsat has made a breakthrough in the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market in Latin America. It announced Nov. 20 that Aerolíneas Argentinas has tapped Intelsat to provide multi-orbit in-flight connectivity services on 18 Airbus A330 and Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The airline will become the first in Latin America to offer service using Intelsat’s new electronically steered…
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China’s large-thrust rocket engine test shortened to two days
China will be able to make more of its large-thrust rockets and at a faster pace because now it only takes two days to test the engines used in its liquid oxygen-kerosene rockets. The Sixth Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced on Tuesday that the time for the test –…