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LeoLabs Exec Matthew Shouppe Joins Kayhan Space as Chief Commercial Officer
LeoLabs executive Matthew Shouppe joined spaceflight safety company Kayhan Space as chief commercial officer, the company announced Thursday. Shouppe has more than 13 years of industry experience in sales and product development for astrodynamics-based software and software-as-a-service applications. He joins Kayhan Space direct from LeoLabs, where he served as senior director of Commercial Space where…
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Momentus Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $8.5M, Updates Vigoride Schedule
Momentus settled a class action lawsuit against certain of its current and former directors and former officers, the company announced Thursday. Momentus and the lead plaintiff reached an agreement in February to settle for payment of $8.5 million, at least $4 million of which is expected to be funded by insurance proceeds. The case is…
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Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon roll out to pad 39A
SpaceX transported a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to pad 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 22, for final preparations to carry a four-man crew to the International Space Station on NASA’s Crew-6 mission. After completing the quarter-mile trip from SpaceX’s hangar, the Falcon 9 was raised vertical on pad 39A using…
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Does the Future of the Internet Depend on Satellite?
A few short years ago, the question posed by that title would have been laughable. How could the future of the internet – with its 997 terabits per second of global capacity at the end of 2022 – depend on something as costly and bandwidth-constrained as satellite? But the idea is not as strange as…
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Live coverage: Replacement Soyuz arrives at space station
Live coverage of the test flight of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV (English”] [tabby title=”Roscosmos TV (Russian)”] [tabbyending]
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Samsung Jumps upon the Satellite Bandwagon With 5G NTN Modem Technology
Samsung is the latest big-name electronics manufacturer to look to develop a satellite-based capability. In a major announcement on Feb. 23, the electronics giant said it had secured standardized 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTN) modem technology for direct communication between smartphones and satellites, especially in remote areas. Samsung plans to integrate this technology into the company’s…
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Chinese satellites deployed for Turkish earthquake relief
China has deployed several satellites to capture images of the quake-hit areas in Turkiye, helping the country to analyze the disaster situation and allocate relief resources more effectively, according to the industry newspaper China Space News. Using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images provided by China’s L-SAR 01, researchers accurately portrayed the extent of the damage…
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China to launch two weather satellites this year
China will launch the Fengyun 3F and Fengyun 3G weather satellites this year, according to the China Meteorological Administration. The Fengyun 3F is expected to be launched in August. It will focus on making imaging observations of the Earth’s surface, which are mainly used for weather forecasting, environmental research and disaster monitoring. The Fengyun 3G…
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Ground Segment Innovates to Enable the New Space Renaissance
The days of the ground satellite segment trailing space capabilities are fast disappearing with a wave of new ground advances that support multi-orbit constellations and the specifications that both 5G and a new generation of high-bandwidth satellites require. The ground segment – from electronically steerable antenna and modem companies to integrators and network providers –…
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Generation Space Index 2022: Investing in the Future of Space
It’s hard to succinctly summarize the year 2022 for the space industry. Cheap and easy money dried up, killing the funding megarounds that were so common in 2021. But space also entered the public consciousness in a way arguably not seen since the space race and the Moon landings. After the James Webb Space Telescope…