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Rocket Report: Two small launchers fail in flight; Soyuz crew flies to ISS
Welcome to Edition 6.12 of the Rocket Report! Two of the world’s most successful small satellite launchers suffered failures this week. We’ve seen many small launch companies experience failures on early test flights, but US-based Rocket Lab and China’s Galactic Energy have accumulated more flight heritage than most of their competitors. Some might see these…
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EchoStar Brings Satellite IoT Connectivity to The Things Industries
An EchoStar subsidiary signed a deal with The Things Industries to deploy hybrid satellite and LoRa IoT solutions to businesses across Europe. The companies are introducing satellite connectivity to The Things Stack LoRaWAN network server and its generic node concept edition, to expand the reach of its IoT network. The Things Stack is a LoRaWAN…
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Unlocking lunar secrets: Exploring the enigmatic shadows of the Moon’s south pole
An image of the permanently shadowed region within Spudis crater. Image: NASA/KARI/Arizona State University Eunhyeuk Kim, the principal researcher of the Danuri spacecraft at the Korean Aerospace Research Institute, emphasized the significance of this milestone. “This is the first time…we are seeing what it looks like inside, whether they are different from the other normal…
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Iridium Forecasts $1B Service Revenue in 2030, Hints at Narrowband IoT Ambitions
Iridium Communications will hit $1 billion in annual service revenue in 2030, CEO Matt Desch projected during the company’s investor day presentation on Thursday, setting a bold revenue target for the company. Desch said this revenue growth over the next seven years has the capacity for $3 billion in shareholder returns through 2030. The company…
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Shipping Company Hapag-Lloyd Chooses Starlink for its Fleet
Starlink has signed another key contract in the maritime arena as it looks to make traction in this vertical. Hapag-Lloyd will start to use Starlink’s satellite internet technology across its fleet. The company announced the deal on Thursday and sait it it comes after a successful pilot phase. Since May, crewmembers aboard four pilot vessels have…
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Permission denied for reentry of Varda’s orbiting experiment capsule
A first-of-its-kind commercial spacecraft owned by an in-space manufacturing startup called Varda Space Industries has been in orbit two months longer than originally planned, waiting for government approval to return to Earth with a cache of pharmaceutical specimens. Varda’s satellite launched on June 12 for what was originally supposed to be a monthlong mission to…
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OQ Technology Announces Upcoming MACSAT Launch Aboard Arianespace’s Vega Rocket
Fresh from a successful €13 million Series A funding round, OQ Technology, one of the leading 5G IoT satellite operators, has announced the forthcoming MACSAT launch with Arianespace’s Vega on 4th October 2023 (mission VV23). This pivotal step will further fortify its space and ground infrastructure, as well as expand its satellite coverage. OQ Technology’s…
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SpaceX breaks another booster reuse record, but did anyone see it?
SpaceX launched its 67th rocket of the year on Tuesday night, a staggering total for the company and its workhorse booster, the Falcon 9. At this pace, a clip of one launch every four days, the company is likely to launch 90 or more rockets during this calendar year. This Starlink satellite launch was notable…
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NOAA Awards $2.8 Million Contract to Spire Global for Satellite Weather Data
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced it was awarded a $2.8 million, 12-month contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for satellite weather data. The contract is part of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) Ocean Surface Winds Pilot Study, aimed at advancing the understanding of…
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Sierra Space Successfully Completes Fifth Sub-Scale Structural Test of their LIFE Habitat
Sierra Space, a pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced it completed a fifth, sub-scale test of their revolutionary LIFE habitat (Large Integrated Flexible Environment). ILC Dover is the exclusive softgoods technology partner on the Sierra Space platform. This latest successful milestone and the first one in…