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Viasat Hack Still Dominates Cybersecurity Discussions A Year Later
The hack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network in early 2022 is still casting a shadow over cybersecurity discussions more than a year later. In a cybersecurity panel on March 16 at SATELLITE, Mike Regan, vice president of Business Performance for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), highlighted the Viasat breach and other recent security breaches at AT&T…
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Launchers Address Rocket Debuts, Ramping up Capacity, and Space Stewardship
The global launch market is in a state of flux, as the market awaits delayed heavy-lift vehicles and deals with recent mission failures. One major question is the potential sale of United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, after Ars Technica reported earlier this month the launcher is for sale.…
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Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a launches Bars-M reconnaissance satellite
Making its first military launch since November, Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a rocket has deployed Kosmos 2567 – likely a Bars-M reconnaissance satellite – into Sun-synchronous orbit. Soyuz lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 9:40 AM Moscow Time (06:40 UTC), taking around ten minutes to complete its mission. As is typical for Russian military launches, few details…
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SES-18 and SES-19 Satellites Built by Northrop Grumman Successfully Launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket
SES announced that the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites, designed and assembled by Northrop Grumman, were successfully launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 7:38 pm local time on Friday, March 17. The two American-made satellites are the fourth and fifth – and final – satellites…
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SpaceX pausing launches of new-generation Starlink satellites
A side-by-side comparison of the Starlink V1.5 and the Starlink V2 Mini satellites. Credit: SpaceX / Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s next two missions will revert to launching older versions of the company’s Starlink internet satellites, instead of new second-generation Starlink platforms as originally planned, while ground teams work out unspecified problems with the first batch of…
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Industry Collaboration is Urgent to Avoid Collisions, Space Domain Awareness Experts Say
The satellite industry must figure out how multiple stakeholders can work together to manage space and mitigate debris while addressing concerns such as lack of trust or the presence of bad actors, and the need for open, interoperable technology, experts said in a space domain awareness panel during SATELLITE 2023. Experts said that positive economic…
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China reveals logos for three manned space missions in 2023
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has revealed logos for three missions of China’s manned space program this year, namely the launches of the cargo craft Tianzhou-6, and the crewed spaceships Shenzhou-16 and Shenzhou-17. According to the CMSA, since the launch of the logo call on Feb. 15 this year, it has received more than…
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BlackSky, Planet, Pixxel, and Others Win NRO Hyperspectral Study Contracts
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded six companies — BlackSky Technology, HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Planet, and Xplore — study contracts for commercial hyperspectral imagery. The NRO will use these study contracts to “explore the potential of commercial hyperspectral imagery,” NRO Director Dr. Chris Scolese said in Wednesday’s announcement. The contracts are a two-stage effort. The NRO…
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Gilat Announces Certification of its SkyEdge IV Platform by SES for O3b mPOWER, O3b and SES-17
Gilat Satellite Networks, one of the world leaders in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, announced that SES has certified the SkyEdge IV platform for O3b mPOWER, O3b, and SES-17. By virtue of this certification, Gilat’s high-speed, highly reliable next-generation SkyEdge IV platform is now the industry’s first GEO-MEO multi-orbit certified system. “After the completion…
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Virgin Orbit to Partially Resume Operations Amid Funding Talks
Virgin Orbit, which paused operations last week to conserve capital, plans to incrementally resume operations on Thursday to prepare for the next mission as the company continues funding talks. Virgin Orbit paused operations on March 16, disclosed in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The smallsat launcher has funding troubles, and had just…