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MDA Secures $180 Million Contract for New NGSO Digital Satellite Constellation
MDA, a provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, announced that it has received an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) contract from an undisclosed customer to start work on a new Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO)* satellite constellation. The ATP, valued at approximately $180 million, is to immediately commence engineering and programmatic…
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Daily Telescope: Spying a double cluster of supergiant stars
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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Tototheo Maritime Hits 1,000 Fleet Xpress Installs
Satellite communications and technologies specialist Tototheo Maritime has passed the 1,000-ship mark in Fleet Xpress terminal installations. Inmarsat, which offers Fleet Xpress, announced the milestone on Nov. 20. Inmarsat is now fully part of Viasat, and maritime remains a key target market for the company. The 1,000 terminal installations have included container and general cargo…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper Protoflight Mission Achieves 100% Success Rate
Amazon started Project Kuiper with the goal of providing fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Within 30 days of sending two prototype satellites into space, Project Kuiper has achieved a 100% success rate for its Protoflight mission, validating key technologies that underpin the network and moving the program another step…
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NASA’s DSOC Experiment Aboard Psyche Transmits First Laser Encoded Test Data
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This is the farthest-ever demonstration…
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Advanced Space’s CAPSTONE Mission Completes One Year of Operation at the Moon
Advanced Space, a space tech solutions company, announced that their Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has successfully operated on-orbit around the Moon for a full year. This milestone puts the company in an elite category logging over 365 days of continuous operations in the cislunar environment. As the first…
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SpaceX Makes Progress With Starship’s Second Test Flight
SpaceX conducted the second Starship test flight over the weekend, making progress over the first test in April, but falling short of reaching orbit. The test took place on Saturday morning, Nov. 18, from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. Flight two achieved substantial progress over the first test in April, which exploded before stage separation…
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Intellian Expands to the Middle East
Intellian Technologies is establishing a new entity in Dubai as a hub for operations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. This is Intellian’s 10th global city. This new entity is strategically positioned to meet the needs of Intellian distribution partners and strengthen the brand in key areas across maritime and enterprise markets. The…
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Rocket Lab Sets Up Space Structures Complex to Supply Advanced Composite Products
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, announced the expansion of its space systems business with a dedicated production and development complex designed to deliver a comprehensive suite of advanced composite products for the space industry and to further vertically integrate supply for the Company’s internal needs across launch and space systems. To…
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Telenor is Selling its Satellite Subsidiary to Space Norway
Telenor Group is selling its Telenor Satellite subsidiary to Space Norway, the company announced last week. Both entities are owned by the Norwegian government. Telenor is Norway’s majority state-owned telecommunications company, and Space Norway is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and is a key part of the country’s activities in…