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GITAI Successfully Demonstrates Inchworm Robotic Arm and Lunar Rover in Simulated Regolith Chamber
GITAI USA, one of the leading space robotics startups, has achieved a significant milestone with the successful demonstration of a GITAI inchworm-type robotic arm equipped with a tool changer function and a GITAI Lunar Robotic Rover in a simulated regolith chamber. The GITAI robots flawlessly executed all planned tasks within the simulated regolith chamber. GITAI,…
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How bedrest and cycling in artificial gravity is being tested to aid human spaceflight
For two months, 12 people from France will be put into a “compulsory reclined lifestyle” to study the impacts that microgravity has on astronauts and whether cycling in artificial gravity could combat the negative effects human spaceflight has on the body. The Bedrest with Artificial Gravity and Cycling Exercise (BRACE) is led by the European…
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ULA test-fires first Vulcan rocket at Cape Canaveral
Watch replay of our live coverage of the Flight Readiness Firing for United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 12 to change reference to igniters, which are not single use. United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket completed…
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Slingshot Aerospace Hires Spaceport Cornwall’s Melissa Quinn, Axiom Space’s Megan Sieffert
Melissa Quinn, the former head of Spaceport Cornwall, has joined spaceflight safety data and tracking company Slingshot Aerospace as its new general manager of Seradata, the launch and satellite database Slingshot acquired in June 2022. Quinn succeeds Tim Fuller, who is retiring on July 1 after leading Seradata for eight years. As General Manager of…
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Hughes Announces Distribution Partner Agreement with OneWeb to Provide In-Flight LEO Connectivity Services
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, and OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, announced a Distribution Partner agreement to provide LEO connectivity services to the global airline market. As a worldwide OneWeb distributor, Hughes is launching new LEO in-flight connectivity (IFC) solutions, powered by the company’s electronically steered antenna (ESA), for airlines…
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NASA concerned SpaceX’s Starship schedule could delay moon landing
Artist’s illustration of the Starship landing system on the moon. Credit: SpaceX A senior NASA official raised concerns Wednesday that “difficulties” with SpaceX’s development of the huge new Starship rocket could delay the Artemis program’s first moon landing with astronauts from late 2025, a mission that will use a derivative of the Starship vehicle to…
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Beyond Gravity Introduces New Multi-Constellation GNSS Receiver for Satellites
Beyond Gravity, one of the leading global suppliers to the space industry working in the areas of satellite positioning and communications, providing instruments to collect satellite data and structures for all types of launch vehicles has introduced a new multi-constellation GNSS receiver for satellites. The GEORIX from Beyond Gravity is a single-frequency multi-constellation (GPS, GALILEO)…
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SpaceX’s 28th resupply mission arrives at the International Space Station
Image: SpaceX ISS National Lab sponsored experiments Alongside the new solar panels are several experiments sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory. The ISS is, of course, an orbital research lab. Some are created by students, others by national space agencies, buts there is a lot of stuff being sent up there from all over the…
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Thales Ships the Communications Module of SpainSat NG-I Satellite to Airbus for Integration and Testing
The Communications Module of the SpainSat NG-I telecommunications satellite has left the plant of Thales Alenia Space (a joint venture between Thales, 67%, and Leonardo, 33%) in Tres Cantos (Spain) inside a container on a special transport truck towards the plant of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse (France), to proceed with the assembly, integration,…
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Can Aviation Connectivity Eco-Systems Meet Rising Expectations from Today’s Travelers?
HAMBURG, GERMANY — Executives from the aviation and satellite industries at the Passenger Experience Conference in Hamburg agreed that airlines need to invest in enhancing the passenger experience, as airlines carry more young travelers than ever before with higher demands for connectivity-based services. In a panel titled, ‘Meeting the Expectations of the New Generation Digital…