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EchoStar Taps Astro Digital to Manufacture Global S-Band Constellation
EchoStar Corporation announced plans for a global S-band constellation to provide IoT services on Thursday, signing a deal with Astro Digital to manufacture the satellites. EchoStar ordered 28 small satellites to begin services in 2024. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The satellites will feature an advanced software-defined radio with onboard storage and processing…
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Space station astronauts finish preps for next pair of new solar arrays
Astronaut Koichi Wakata, in foreground at right, works on the space station’s truss during a spacewalk Thursday. Astronaut Nicole Mann is visible in the background at left. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Continuing work left over from a spacewalk last month, astronauts Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata headed outside the International Space Station Thursday…
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SpaceX conducts cross-country Starlink doubleheader
SpaceX ended January with and began February with two Starlink missions. These launches occurred two days apart from separate launch sites. The first such mission — Starlink Group 2-6 — lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 8:15 AM PST…
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Galaxy Broadband Signs $50M Deal to Provide OneWeb LEO Service in Canada
Canadian satellite service company Galaxy Broadband Communications has signed a $50 million, multi-year deal with OneWeb for its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity to provide broadband service in Canada. Galaxy Broadband, based in Ontario, is an existing OneWeb distribution partner. It has already deployed to more than 75 locations throughout Canada, connecting anywhere from 30 to…
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Samsung’s New Galaxy Phones Won’t Feature Satellite Connectivity
Samsung announced the details of its new Galaxy S23 series of smartphones this week — and emergency messaging via satellite was not one of the features. In Wednesday’s Galaxy Unpacked announcement, Samsung announced that the S23 Ultra will use Qualcomm’s new “Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy” chips, but did not mention any satellite messaging…
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Tiphaine Louradour launches a new stage of her career as CEO of Spaceflight Inc.
Spaceflight CEO Tiphaine Louradour has more than 15 years of space industry experience. (Spaceflight Photo) Space industry veteran Tiphaine Louradour is taking the helm as CEO of Spaceflight Inc., a launch and in-space transportation services provider based in Bellevue, Wash. She succeeds Curt Blake, who has served as Spaceflight CEO and president since 2013. Blake…
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Astronauts conduct second EVA to lay groundwork for final iROSA arrays
Astronauts Koichi Wakata and Nicole Mann have completed another spacewalk, continuing work to enable the final set of upgraded ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) “solar wings” to be installed on ISS sometime this summer. Following US EVA-84 on Friday, Jan. 20, Wakata and Mann conducted US EVA-85 on Thursday, Feb. 2. US EVA-84 On Friday,…
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Gravitilab Engineers Microgravity Research System with UAV
Gravitilab Aerospace Services, a U.K. space engineering company, has claimed a world first for microgravity research and testing. At a UAV testing site in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, the company engineered what it claims is the first ever commercial microgravity service using its UAV technology. The company announced the results of the test, Feb.…
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Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander Successfully Completes Flight Acceptance Campaign
Astrobotic announced that it’s Peregrine lunar lander has successfully completed its entire flight acceptance campaign. Peregrine is now ready to be shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida when Astrobotic’s rocket provider, United Launch Alliance (ULA), gives the green light to receive it. ”Peregrine Mission One’s (PM1) flight acceptance campaign was completed on schedule and exceeded expectations.…
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Tiphaine Louradour Talks Leaving ILS for Spaceflight CEO Role
Tiphaine Louradour Tiphaine Louradour is taking the helm at rideshare provider Spaceflight as the company’s new CEO. Spaceflight announced the news on Thursday, after Louradour announced her departure from ILS International Launch Services (ILS) earlier this week. Louradour succeeds Curt Blake, a founding executive of Spacelight and longtime CEO of the company. Blake will support…