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Space station astronauts continue power system upgrades with new solar array
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg carries a roll-out solar array during a June 9 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen ventured back outside the International Space Station Thursday for their second spacewalk in six days to install and deploy another roll-out solar array to augment the power…
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UARX Space Providing Launch Services for Small Satellites from LEO to Lunar Missions
UARX Space is an in-space transportation company providing rideshare and dedicated launch services for CubeSats and small satellites. The company designs and builds spacecraft that put CubeSats and SmallSat into their desired orbits, from low-earth orbit (LEO) to the Moon and deep space. From 1kg to 3500 Kg spacecraft, the team at UARX Space has…
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Comtech and E-Space to Partner on Communications Solutions
Comtech and E-Space have a new agreement to work together to deliver communications solutions and IoT services to support government and targeted commercial customers. E-Space is building a satellite constellation for IoT connectivity that it says will resemble terrestrial communications network capabilities. The companies said in a Wednesday announcement that this agreement will combine Comtech’s…
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Analysts Caught Off Guard by Steve Collar’s Sudden Departure from SES, Describe Timing as “Odd”
SES’s announcement on Monday that Steve Collar is leaving his role as CEO means there will be huge change at one of the world’s biggest satellite operators. The timing of the announcement was interesting, given that SES has been in the middle of an aggressive launch campaign for its mPOWER satellites. It is not exactly…
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China launches record-setting 41 satellites on single rocket
China launched a Long March-2D rocket to place 41 satellites in orbit on Thursday, setting a domestic record for the most satellites lifted in one go. The rocket blasted off at 1:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China and soon took the satellites, including the Jilin-1 Gaofen 06A, into…
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Thursday Morning Conversation on Land Mobile with Intelsat’s Joel Schroeder
In this session of Thursday Morning Conversations, returning guest Intelsat expert Joel Schroeder further explores the current development, trends, and key motivators of adopting land mobile solutions in heavy equipment markets such as agriculture, mining operations, forestry, and construction. With autonomous and “smart” industrial operations continuing to gain traction in heavy equipment industries, the need…
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Forsway Appoints Bengt Jonsson as Chairman
Forsway has appointed Bengt Jonsson as its new chairman, the company announced June 14. A long-time investor with strong roots in Forsway, Jonsson previously served as managing director of the company. Jonsson takes over from Mats Andersson, who served as chairman for nine years. The company, which has been going almost 20 years, aims to…
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Satellites keep photobombing space images. Astronomers need a fix
Throngs of satellites are streaking across the Hubble Space Telescope’s field of view, leaving what look like scratch marks on space photos and hindering scientists’ work. Teeming swarms of these satellites, which reflect sunlight and mimic astronomical objects, threaten to gradually transform the night sky and affect how astronomy can be done. “We see these…
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Megaplume of water vapor erupting on Enceladus caught by Webb Telescope
Enceladus, a frozen moon orbiting Saturn, has caught the interest of scientists because of the plumes of water vapor that erupt from its icy crust, which are possible evidence for a subsurface ocean. And an ocean means it has the potential for life (at least life as we know it). Now NASA’s James Webb Space…
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Satellogic Earth Observation Constellation Successfully Reaches LEO Following SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch
Satellogic Inc., one of the leaders in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, announced that four NewSats Mark-V spacecraft successfully reached low-Earth orbit following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on June 12th from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This marks Satellogic’s 15th mission and its first payload comprised exclusively of its latest generation spacecraft with…