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Starlink satellites soar from Florida, west coast launch slips to Monday due to hurricane
Updated 7:20 p.m. EDT (2320 UTC): Hurricane Hilary delays California launch further. A Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 16, carrying 22 Starlink satellites. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral late Wednesday carrying 22 Starlink satellites but a launch from California scheduled for just hours later…
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Viasat Opens Real-Time Earth Ground Station in Japan Enabling Ka-band Service for Customers
Viasat announced the opening of a Real-Time Earth (RTE) ground station in Hokkaido, Japan, now enabling RTE customers the ability to downlink Ka-band payload data in the northwestern Pacific at the site hosted by RTE partner Infostellar. This new ground site gives RTE customers unique access to a strategic location that reduces the time it…
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Blue Canyon Technologies Announces Successful Initial Contact with NASA’s Starling CubeSats
RTX’s small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies announced a successful launch and initial contact with CubeSats for the NASA Starling mission, a technology demonstration aimed at proving the success of cooperative groups of spacecraft operating in an autonomous, synchronous manner or “swarm.” BCT provided four 6U CubeSats to NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology…
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SpeQtral Partners with Kongsberg NanoAvionics and Mbryonics for SpeQtral-1 Mission
SpeQtral, a quantum communication technology company, is thrilled to unveil the collaboration with Kongsberg NanoAvionics and Mbryonics for the upcoming SpeQtral-1 mission. NanoAvionics has been chosen as the satellite platform provider, while Mbryonics will take on the crucial role of the satellite optical terminal provider. NanoAvionics, a prominent player in the new space industry, has…
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Viasat Wins Malaysia Airlines IFC Deal
Malaysia’s national air carrier, Malaysia Airlines, selected Viasat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution for its new Boeing 737-8 fleet. The companies announced the deal Thursday, and said the first factory installation is expected to be delivered later this month. The new fleet has anticipated flight routes across Malaysia and Southeast Asia and Malaysia Airlines will leverage…
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SDA Contracts SpaceX, Kuiper, and Aalyria for LEO Backhaul Study
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has contracted SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions, and Aalyria Technologies for a study on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) backhaul capability. The awards have a total value of $1.6 million. SDA announced the contracts in a LinkedIn post on Thursday, and said the studies will begin this week. The awards were made under…
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Rare photo shows inside of Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory
A look inside New Glenn’s factory Normally enshrouded in mystery, Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory, situated near the Kennedy Space Center, boasts a comprehensive complex equipped for the production of the New Glenn rocket, with the exceptions of the BE-4 and BE-3U engines. While it’s been established that manufacturing activities have been ongoing for some…
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Spire Names Leo Basola as New CFO
Spire Global named Leo Basola as its new chief financial officer. This appointment comes after earlier this year, the company’s CFO Thomas Krywe announced he would step down in September. The change comes as Spire will soon execute a stock split to regain compliance with its NYSE listing, as its shares have been trading at…
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Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
A major development effort in the design of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the waveform used in software defined radios (SDR) to provide terminal and manpack UHF communication radios. Due to the complexity of using Spectrally Adaptive Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (SA-WCDMA) in the MUOS environment, Satellite Link Emulator test systems were…
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OneWeb Demonstrates LEO Offerings to Humanitarian Organizations
OneWeb had demonstrated how its satellites and services can make a real impact in the humanitarian community. The company announced Aug. 17 that it took part in a successful demonstration of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite capabilities last month at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. OneWeb, successfully streamed…