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Spectra Group Orders $20M of Troposcatter Systems from Comtech
Comtech won a $20 million order for its next-generation troposcatter systems from the U.K.-based Spectra Group to service NATO and European customers. The award is for Comtech’s Comet — Compact Over-the-Horizon Transportable Terminal — a light, man-pack troposcatter system for beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) communications. Spectra Group is Comtech’s regional distributor of its Comet terminal in Europe. …
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Frank Borman, commander of the first mission to orbit the Moon, has died
Frank Borman, an Air Force test pilot, astronaut, and accomplished businessman who led the first crew to fly to the Moon in 1968, died Tuesday in Montana, NASA said Thursday. He was 95 years old. “Today we remember one of NASA’s best,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. “Astronaut Frank Borman was a…
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Sierra Space Tests New Hypergolic Rocket Engine with Continuous Throttling Capability
Sierra Space, one of the leading pureplay commercial space companies building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced that it successfully tested a new 5,500 lbf. hypergolic rocket engine that promises to become a groundbreaking addition to its engine portfolio. Employing pure hydrazine fuel and MON3 oxidizer in a staged combustion cycle,…
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Daily Telescope: A spectacular view of a 10,000-year-old supernova remnant
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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Spire Reports a Record $27M in Revenue in Q3
Spire Global posted a 34% year-over-year increase in revenue in the third quarter of 2023 and raised the low end of its guidance for the full year. Spire announced its Q3 results on Nov. 8. Third quarter revenue was a record $27.3 million, which exceeded the top end of Spire’s expectations by $300,000. The company…
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Avanti Looks to a LEO and Multi-Orbit Future
Avanti Communications is revamping its strategy to become more of a multi-orbit operator for the first time. The company is in talks with a leading Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) operator to procure capacity and will also be investing heavily in its managed services capabilities. Avanti announced this new strategic repositioning on Nov. 10. The company intends…
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China launches Zhongxing-6E satellite
China on Thursday successfully sent a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite, Zhongxing-6E, was launched at 7:23 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. This launch marked the 496th mission to use a Long March series…
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Momentus and RIDE! Space Team Up to Link SmallSat Operators with In-Space Services
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, has signed an agreement with RIDE! Space to make its services available through the RIDE! Space platform. Momentus and RIDE! Space recently signed a services agreement to fly Gaindesat and Djibouti payloads on…
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Scientists show off the wide vision of Europe’s Euclid space telescope
The European Space Agency released the first five science images from the Euclid space telescope Tuesday, showing how the wide-angle observatory will survey familiar cosmic wonders like galaxies and stars to study the unseen dark energy and dark matter that dominate the Universe. Stationed nearly a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, Euclid will…
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SES Space & Defense Awarded Medium Earth Orbit BPA by U.S. Department of Defense
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) low-latency high-throughput satellite (HTS) services. The single-award BPA has a ceiling of just under USD 270 million over a five-year period. With this contract, SES Space…