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SES Hopes for a Strong 2023 After Growing Revenue 9% in 2022
SES saw an increase in its overall revenues in 2022 but a sharp fall in its net profits. These were two of the highlights of its full year results for 2022, announced, Feb. 27. On the revenue side, the company achieved revenues of 1.94 billion euros ($2.05 billion), an over 9% increased compared to the…
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Axiom Space Announces Ax-2 Mission Crew for the Second All-Private Mission to ISS
Axiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut, will lead the privately funded mission, and aviator John Shoffner of Knoxville, Tennessee, will serve as pilot. The two mission specialists, Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are members of the inaugural Saudi national astronaut program. …
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SpaceX launches first V2 mini satellites for Starlink Group 6-1
Starlink V2 satellites Initially planned to exclusively launch on SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the Starlink V2 satellites are more capable satellites to build out the company’s internet service. Musk described the V1 satellites the company has launched previously as financially weak, while referring to V2 satellites as strong. While Starship may be nearing its first orbital…
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Ubotica Announces Next Generation Hardware Platform for AI Computing in Space
Ubotica Technologies, one of the leading providers of smarts for smart satellites, announced CogniSAT-XE2 the next-generation hardware platform for delivering state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) in space. Building on the flight-proven CogniSAT technology, CogniSAT-XE2 comes in a mechanical and power envelope compatible with small satellites even down to CubeSats, and delivers increased compute performance per Watt.…
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Rosenworcel Talks FCC Satellite-to-Cell Regulation in MWC Keynote
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel addressed the Commission’s plan to update the regulations related to satellite-to-cell communications at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. “Bringing satellite and terrestrial wireless capabilities together can accomplish what neither network can do on its own,” Rosenworcel said in Barcelona. “We are starting to see how this kind of direct…
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Capella Space Announces Industry-First Analytics Partner Program to Accelerate Access to Earth Observation
Capella Space announced the launch of its Analytics Partner Program to meet the increasing global demand for geospatial products and solutions that leverage the power of SAR. This new program is the first of its kind for commercial SAR data. It will fill the gap of lack of tools to analyze and interpret data at…
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Luxembourg Announces Intent to Leverage SES’s O3b mPOWER for Europe and NATO
SES announced that the Government of Luxembourg unveiled its intent to leverage SES’s high-performance, second-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) system – O3b mPOWER – as a critical resilient satcom infrastructure for Luxembourg, its partners and NATO in the areas of defence and security, disaster recovery and more. In a press conference, Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister,…
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NASA´s William Hartwell updates on Artemis I and future ESMs
NASASpaceflight interviewed two speakers and subject matter experts about Orion, the European Service Module (ESM), Artemis I, and other space cooperations between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA as part of the Moon Media Day of ESA and Airbus. In the previously released interview, NASASpaceflight talked with the ESA Director of Human and Robotics…
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Army Awards Maxar Contract to Continue Support One World Terrain Effort
Maxar Technologies on Monday said it has been awarded a new contract under the U.S. Army’s One World Terrain (OWT) effort to continue to evolve and add geospatial data for virtual models of the Earth. The Phase 3b contract is for one year and is worth tens of millions of dollars. Maxar has been the…
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Chandrayaan-3 Lander Successfully Undergoes EMI/EMC Test
ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 lander underwent EMI/EMC test successfully, from Jan 31, 2023 – Feb 02, 2023, at U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru. EMI-EMC (Electro – Magnetic Interference/ Electro – Magnetic Compatibility) test is conducted for satellite missions to ensure the functionality of the satellite subsystems in the space environment and their compatibility with the expected…