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Thales Alenia Space Selected to Implement WEkEO 2.0 Infrastructure for Eumetsat and Partners
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced the signature of the Provision of Copernicus WEkEO 2.0 Services and Operations contract with the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), representing the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International (MOI) and the European Environment Agency…
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HawkEye 360 Says $58M Raise Will Advance RF Sensing and Processing Innovation
HawkEye 360 Inc. said on July 13 that it has raised $58 million in a Series D-1 round of funding from venture capital and private equity firms, including BlackRock, Manhattan Venture Partners, Insight Partners, NightDragon, Strategic Development Fund, Razor’s Edge, Alumni Ventures, and Adage Capital. HawkEye 360 has seven clusters of radio frequency (RF)-sensing satellites on orbit. Each cluster has three satellites. Last…
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China unveils preliminary plan on manned lunar landing
China plans to land its taikonauts on the moon before 2030 to carry out scientific exploration, according to a preliminary plan released by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Wednesday. The plan is to launch two carrier rockets to send a lunar lander and a manned spacecraft to a lunar orbit, respectively. The craft…
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Keysight and Skylo Partner on NTN Certification Program
Keysight Technologies is working with Skylo Technologies to expand its cellular testing expertise to non-terrestrial networks (NTN). The companies announced an MoU on Wednesday to create a certification program for chipsets, modules, and devices using narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) protocol over satellite. Keysight offers 5G device test solutions, and will create a certification plan to validate…
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Millennium Space Systems Completes Design Review for Missile Warning Satellite
Millennium Space Systems reports it has completed a program design review (PDR) for a U.S. Space Force missile tracking satellite in just four months, the company announced Wednesday. The satellite is for Space Systems Command’s Missile Track Custody (MTC) program. The MTC program is pursuing small satellites in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) for missile warning. Millennium…
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Redwire to Build State-of-the-Art Microgravity Payload Development Facility in Indiana
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy, announced its plan to open a new state-of-the-art microgravity payload development facility with a mission operations center at the Novaparke Innovation & Technology Campus in Floyd County, Indiana, as the company looks to increase production of critical technologies enabling human spaceflight…
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Muon Space Awarded Additional Funding from AFLMC and DIU for Ionospheric Data Collection
Muon Space has been awarded an option to their contract with Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC)’s Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to collect ionospheric data on their MuSat-2 satellite mission. The performance period for this contract is two years extending through September 2024. This is an optional expansion in…
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Here come the Moon landing missions (probably)
As anyone who has been paying attention to space exploration knows, the Moon is red-hot. Up to half a dozen missions may launch to the lunar surface in the next six months, heralding a new era of Moon exploration. It has not always been so. Following the Space Race in the 1960s and early 1970s,…
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Optus Plans Sat-to-Cell Service in Australia With Starlink
Starlink will play a pivotal role in expanding connectivity throughout Australia. Optus, one of Australia’s leading telcos and satellite providers, signed a deal with SpaceX to deliver mobile connectivity using the Starlink satellite constellation to cover 100% of Australia. Optus said in a July 12 announcement that it will enable satellite direct-to-cell service with Starlink starting…