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Viasat-3 Satellite Gets Early April Launch Window
Viasat’s long-awaited Viasat-3 satellite is set to launch the week of April 8, the operator announced Tuesday. The satellite has completed construction and testing after what Visat described as a “long, painstaking process.” Viasat shared its third quarter fiscal year 2023 financial results on Tuesday, and a forecast for future revenue with the upcoming launch…
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SES, ThinKom and Hughes Report Multi-Orbit Airborne Terminal Demonstration
SES, ThinKom and Hughes Network Systems reported a multi-orbit satellite service demonstration for government airborne missions which the company’s said shows multi-orbit resilience for critical missions. The companies tested a ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal over SES’s Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks at ThinKom’s Hawthorne, California facilities and on an aircraft…
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Xplore Multi-Sensor Satellite to offer Space Data Products under NOAA Imagery License
Xplore Inc., a space company providing space data products, data fusion, and on-board computing from its multi-sensor XCRAFT announced it has been granted a remote sensing license from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the company’s first mission to low Earth orbit (LEO) scheduled for launch later this year. Lisa Rich, Xplore Founder,…
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Orbit Awarded Contract to Supply Navy with SATCOM Systems
Orbit Communications Systems, one of the leading global providers of maritime and airborne SATCOM terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems – has been awarded a multi-million contract by a leading integrator in South East Asia – for the supply of OceanTRx 7MIL satellite communication systems for new naval military platforms.…
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Anuvu Taps Telesat for Ground Infrastructure for its Constellation
Telesat has won a deal to provide antennas and ground station infrastructure to Anuvu, the two companies announced, Feb. 7. The facilities will support Tracking, Telemetry and Control (TT&C) of Anuvu’s first two MicroGEO satellites built by Astranis Space Technologies. Anuvu and Astranis remain on track to launch the first two satellites for the constellation…
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Perseverance completes sample return depot, Ingenuity continues flights
As the two-year landing anniversary of NASA’s Perseverance rover and its small scouting helicopter Ingenuity draws near, the pair continue to explore Jezero Crater and unlock the many secrets of the red planet. Perseverance recently completed a significant milestone as part of an effort to one day return Martian samples to Earth. Meanwhile, Ingenuity continues to defy all expectations as it flies…
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General Atomics GAzelle Satellite Successfully Completes Post Launch Acceptance Review
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that the recently launched GAzelle satellite hosting the Argos-4 and RadMon payloads has successfully completed its on-orbit Post Launch Acceptance Review (PLAR). All components are confirmed in good health and satellite operations are functioning nominally. The RadMon payload commissioning phase has been completed and can begin mission operations. …
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ESA Chooses DCUBED Lead Consortia to Create Deployable Reflectarray Antenna for NanoSats
The Mechanical Assembly for Reflectarray Antennas of SmallSats (MARAS) project funded through ESA ARTES 4.0 will enable small telecommunications satellites to take their antenna capabilities to the next level with a multi-panel Ka-Band reflect array antenna developed by DCUBED (Deployables Cubed GmbH), Celestial Space Technologies GmbH, German Orbital Systems GmbH and Blackwave GmbH. The satellite…
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Iridium Teams up With National Geographic to Connect Mobile Explorers
Iridium has teamed up with the National Geographic Society in a new philanthropic venture. The two companies announced the partnership, Feb. 7. The venture will look to support National Geographic Explorers (Explorers) as the cover and bring information about the world to a global audience. As part of this program, the National Geographic Society Exploration…
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Viavi Solutions Ready to Showcase New PNT Tech
Viavi Solutions is bringing a new solution to market which it says will deliver critical security for Positional, Navigation and Timing (PNT) to communications service providers, network equipment manufacturers, government and military, and avionics markets. The company announced the PNT-6200 Series Feb. 8 and will showcase it later this month at Mobile World Congress (MWC)…