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HawkEye 360 to Begin Operations of Sixth Satellite Cluster
HawkEye 360 announced the beginning of operations of its Cluster 6 satellites. The rapidly growing constellation can collect up to 24 times per day over a region of interest, as often as once every hour. The enhanced payloads and an additional ground station optimize the speed for delivering increased quantity and quality of data to customers…
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Zhurong discovery selected as top 10 scientific advances of 2022
China’s Ministry of Science and Technology Friday released the top 10 domestic scientific advances of 2022. At the top of the list is the Martian subsurface structure revealed by Mars rover Zhurong’s radar instrument. The study not only showed detailed subsurface features of Mars but also provided the observation evidence of the water presence, which…
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Terran Orbital Boosts Revenue 130% in 2022 With SDA Deal
Terran Orbital reported a record $94.2 million of revenue in 2022 — more than doubling revenue compared to 2021, driven by the company’s subcontract for the Space Development Agency’s proliferated network. The company released its full year results on March 21. The $94.2 million in revenue was a 130% increase compared to about $41 million…
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Terran Orbital Boosts Revenue 130% in 2022 With SDA Deal
Terran Orbital reported a record $94.2 million of revenue in 2022 — more than doubling revenue compared to 2021, driven by the company’s subcontract for the Space Development Agency’s proliferated network. The company released its full year results on March 21. The $94.2 million in revenue was a 130% increase compared to about $41 million…
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Rivada to Use Aalyria’s Spacetime Platform for its LEO Constellation
Aalyria which launched late last year after acquiring key networking and communications technology developed over decades within Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Rivada Space Networks (RSN) has entered into an agreement to use Aalyria’s Spacetime platform to orchestrate the network for Rivada’s planned LEO constellation. Rivada’s constellation will consist of 600 satellites interconnected…
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Intelsat To Operate First Space-Based Air Pollution Monitoring Space Instrument
Intelsat has completed testing of the operational and data collection system for the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent every daylight hour at high resolution. The new UV-visible spectrometer, operated by Intelsat for NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will be hosted on the Intelsat 40e (IS-40e) satellite…
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BeetleSat Names Patricio Northland as New CEO
BeetleSat, formerly NSLComm, recently named Patricio Northland as its new CEO. Northland has more than 20 years of experience in the satellite and telecommunications industries and previously was CEO of Eutelsat Americas, CEO of Satmex, and CEO of AT&T Latin America. As CEO of Eutelsat Americas, Northland led the company’s market entry and business in…
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BeetleSat Names Patricio Northland as New CEO
BeetleSat, formerly NSLComm, recently named Patricio Northland as its new CEO. Northland has more than 20 years of experience in the satellite and telecommunications industries and previously was CEO of Eutelsat Americas, CEO of Satmex, and CEO of AT&T Latin America. As CEO of Eutelsat Americas, Northland led the company’s market entry and business in…
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L3Harris Signs Contract with NASA to Design and Build NOAA’s Next-Gen GEO Weather Imager
L3Harris Technologies announced a $765 million contract from NASA to design and build the next-generation, high-resolution imager for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite system. The GeoXO Imager will provide advanced visible and infrared imagery, more precise observations, and improved water vapor measurements to significantly improve the accuracy and timeliness of weather forecasting in the Western…
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This week ahead in rocket launches: Relativity tries again, Electron number three, more
Rocket Lab has already launched two Electrons this year, but both of those took place from the company’s new Virginia launch site. Only a few days after its previous launch, this mission will take place at LC-1B in New Zealand. The mission will carry two satellites for BlackSky, a “real-time geospatial intelligence” company. This mission…