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Live coverage: Japan’s new H3 rocket fails to reach orbit
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Japanese H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The mission will launch the Advanced Land Observing Satellite 3 mission for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”JAXA Webcast”] [tabbyending]
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Spaceflight Readies BlackSky Satellites for Upcoming Rocket Lab Launch
Spaceflight Inc., a premier launch and in-space transportation services provider, announced it will launch two BlackSky satellites aboard Rocket Lab’s next mission called “The Beat Goes On,” from Mahia, New Zealand. The spacecraft, now in New Zealand for the final stage of integration, was manufactured by U.S.-based satellite maker LeoStella, and co-engineered with BlackSky. The…
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Airbus’ Aalto HAPS Signs New Deal with Saudi Telco
The Airbus HAPS subsidiary Aalto HAPS has signed a new deal to bring its connectivity solutions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company announced a new MoU with the stc Group, a key Saudi telco, on March 3. Stc Group will have access to Aalto’s solutions, when the company rolls out commercial services by…
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Japan’s maiden launch of H3 rocket fails during second stage flight
JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched – at the second attempt – to maiden launch of the H3 launch vehicle at 01:37 UTC Tuesday. However, the vehicle failed shortly after staging, via an apparent failure to light the second stage that was set to deploy the ALOS-3 optical satellite into a 669-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).…
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Telespazio Opens New Maricá Satellite Teleport, Hosting OneWeb LEO Satellite Gateway
Telespazio Brasil opened a new Maricá satellite teleport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday March 1, hosting the new OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite gateway. Maricá can host several satellites earth stations, LEO and Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites infrastructures, and Earth observation ground stations. The teleport has redundant internet connection and fiber connectivity to…
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On Orbit’s Future Space Economy Series: Business Models in Space
In this webcast in the Future Space Economy series, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Business Operations Casey Swails is joined by speakers from Voyager Space, Spaceflight, Loft Orbital, and BCG for a discussion about how private businesses, industries, civil space agencies, government organizations, and commercial space companies form strategic partnerships and collaborate with each other…
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Rocket Lab Plans Two Launches Days Apart From Two Continents
Rocket Lab announced it’s preparation to launch two dedicated missions in March from the Company’s launch sites in the United States and New Zealand – within days of each other. One Electron rocket is ready and in position at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand to deploy satellites for Spaceflight customer BlackSky, a…
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AST SpaceMobile Partners with Fairwinds Technologies to Explore Military Use Cases
AST SpaceMobile has a new agreement with government contractor Fairwinds Technologies LLC to explore opportunities to jointly market AST SpaceMobile’s satellite-to-cell service to the military market. The Monday announcement was light on details but said the companies will explore how AST SpaceMobile’s services and satellite technology could be jointly marketed to military and law enforcement…
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Weather forecast favorable for Relativity’s first orbital launch attempt
Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket rolls out to Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann Forecasters from the U.S. Space Force predict mostly sunny conditions at Cape Canaveral during a three-hour launch window Wednesday afternoon for the first flight of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket. The three-hour launch window opens…
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Chinese astronauts perform secretive spacewalk at Tiangong space station
Although I wouldn’t be shocked if you’re reading this and didn’t know that China has its own space station and semi-regular launches of its own citizens. Unlike in the United States and Europe, the China Manned Space Agency operates beneath the military (People’s Liberation Army), so many of its projects have been shrouded in secrecy.…