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SpaceX Starship rocket surpassed NASA’s Saturn V rocket during Thursday’s static fire
It isn’t known how these shutdown engines will affect Starship’s launch plans, you could both easily believe SpaceX to reattempt the static fire or move forward with the launch. Beating the historic Saturn V rocket The total thrust stated by SpaceX outputted by the 31 engines Thursday was 7.9 million foot-pounds of thrust. That number…
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SpaceX breaks launch pad turnaround record with midnight mission
Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-4 mission at 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 GMT) on Feb. 12 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] A SpaceX Falcon 9…
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Progress MS-22 arrives at ISS, MS-21 develops coolant loop leak
Roscosmos’ latest Progress resupply craft has docked at the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Progress MS-22 mission occurred at 06:15 UTC on Feb. 9 from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket, docking two days later on Feb. 11 at 08:45 UTC. After the successful docking, Roscosmos engineers…
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Russian cargo ship docks as second Progress suffers sudden loss of coolant
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Progress MS-21 spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Oct. 28. Credit: NASA A Russian Progress supply ship successfully docked with the International Space Station early Saturday but in an unlikely, presumed coincidence, another Progress, docked at a different port, suffered a sudden loss of coolant…
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AST SpaceMobile Signs MoUs in Saudi Arabia and Brazil
AST SpaceMobile has signed two MoUs as it looks to extend the reach of its space network. The two MoUs will help attack key markets in Latin America and the Middle East. Firstly, it signed an MoU with Zain KSA which sees the company able to explore opportunities in Saudi Arabia. The two companies announced…
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MDA Makes Satellite Contract Breakthrough in Argentina
MDA has won a new contract with one of Latin America’s biggest satellite operators. It will design, build and supply all of the Ka-band multibeam antennas for the ARSAT-SG1 satellite, the company announced Feb. 9. ARSAT is Argentina’s national telecoms company and ARSAT-SG1 will provide high-speed Internet as well as digital video and voice services across Argentina…
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Antaris’ JANUS-1 Satellite Reaches Orbit Just 10 Months After Conception
JANUS-1, a 6U satellite built by Antaris and launched early Friday morning on the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) SSLV-D2 rocket, has successfully reached orbit just 10 months after the satellite was initially conceived. Antaris, which designed and manufactured the satellite using the company’s end-to-end cloud platform, confirmed the successful delivery a few hours after…
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Rocket Lab Releases New Space Systems Products for Global Small Satellite Market
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, released two new high-performance space systems products designed to increase the availability of essential satellite components to the global small satellite market. Bolstering the Company’s existing line of proven satellite components, the new Rocket Lab products include the Frontier-X software-defined radio…
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Thales Alenia Space to Provide Electric Propulsion for Korea’s GEO-KOMPSAT-3 Satellite
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to provide electric propulsion for incorporation on their GEO-KOMPSAT-3 (GK3) satellite. Scheduled for launch in 2027, GK3 is a multi-band communications satellite that will provide broadband satellite communication services in the Korean…
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SES, ThinKom, and Hughes Develop Multi-Orbit Resilient Connectivity for Critical Airborne Missions
SES, ThinKom, and Hughes have demonstrated a revolutionary high-performance multi-orbit service capable of supporting multiple solutions for government airborne missions, the companies announced. The open architecture ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal was successfully demonstrated over SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks during testing at ThinKom’s Hawthorne, CA, facilities and on an aircraft…