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SES Deepens Collaboration with Agence France-Presse
SES is extending its partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP) that will see AFP provide better real-time access to live news and events from around the world on its AFPTV Live platform. The two companies announced the extended partnership, Aug. 1. AFPTV Live, based on SES 360, offers a platform that enables users to access AFP’s live video…
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Xona Space Systems Wins $1.2M AFWERX Funding
Xona Space Systems has received $1.2 million in further AFWERX funding after demonstrating precision position, navigation, and timing (PNT) signals on its demonstration satellite, Huginn. AFWERX is the innovation arm of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The funding announced Tuesday is a $1.2 million Direct to Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) contract. The…
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Europe turns its new $1.5 billion space telescope on, and happily it works
Nearly one month after launching into space, a European telescope has begun taking its first images and data of the Universe. And to the delight of scientists at the European Space Agency, everything seems to be working rather well. As part of the months-long commissioning phase, both the telescope’s visual and infrared-light cameras have started…
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Future Space Economy Series: The Value of a Lunar Economy, Explained
Why are the world’s space faring nations racing back to the Moon? What is the value of establishing a new lunar economy? In this episode of On Orbit’s Future Space Economy webcast series, host Jeffrey Hill speaks with Yale University’s Emma Louden, Nanoracks’ Mike Lewis, and former SpaceX leaders David Anderman and Sita Sonty about…
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End of the line for Russia and Ukraine’s partnership in rocketry
A last gasp in a long-standing link between Russia and Ukraine in the field of rocketry could come this week in an unlikely place—the rural wetlands of eastern Virginia—halfway around the world from the battlefields where the nations’ military forces are locked in a deadly conflict. A commercial Antares rocket owned by the US aerospace…
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This Week in Launches: Conclusion of an Antares chapter
This Week’s Launches August 1 Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ CRS NG-19, 8:31 P.M. ET (Final Launch!) LP-0A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia August 3 SpaceX Falcon 9 Galaxy 37, 12:15 A.M. ET SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida August 4 Rocket Lab Electron We Love the Nightlife, 1:00 A.M. ET LC-1B, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand…
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Antares 230+ farewell launch flying S.S. Laurel Clark to ISS
The final flight of the Antares 230+ launch vehicle, marking the end of the career of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 200 series of rockets, lifted off Tuesday with the NG-19 mission under the Commercial Resupply Services cargo contract to supply the International Space Station. The Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) NG-19 flight launched from LP-0A at the…
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Planet to Layoff 117 Employees and Focus on ‘High ROI Opportunities’
Planet will lay off 117 employees, CEO Will Marshall announced Tuesday, after the company lowered its guidance last quarter. Planet published a note that Marshall sent to the company, explaining the layoffs. He said that when the company went public in December 2021, it built up understaffed teams and took on new projects to expand…
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L3Harris Completes the Acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne
L3Harris Technologies, a trusted disruptor for the global aerospace and defense industry has completed its acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, a world-recognized aerospace and defense company providing propulsion and power systems for rockets, spacecraft, and other space vehicles. The acquisition marks the forming of a fourth business segment at the company. L3Harris signed a definitive agreement…
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Momentus Deploys All Payloads from Vigoride-6 Orbital Service Vehicle
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers orbital transportation and in-space infrastructure services, has deployed all customer payloads from its Vigoride-6 Orbital Service Vehicle launched in April 2023 aboard the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission. To date, Momentus has deployed a total of 15 customer satellites over three missions conducted over the past year and has…