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Rocket Lab christens first US launch pad with successful Electron launch for HawkEye 360
The countdown was quiet and calm, running into no issues with the rocket and lifting off right at the opening of the launch window. There was a boat in the no go zone ahead of the launch, which led to the range being red during the T-30-minute poll. However, that boat was able to safely…
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SES Expands Capacity Deal With German Media Company High View
German media company High View signed a deal with SES to purchase additional satellite capacity on SES’s TV neighborhood at ASTRA 19.2 degrees East to add four free-to-air channels. SES said Thursday this is another multi-year contract with High View. High View will expand its Deluxe Music brand by broadcasting new channels Deluxe Dance, Deluxe Flashback,…
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SpaceX launches Starlink Group 5-2 mission from Florida
SpaceX’s busy 2023 continued with the launch of Starlink 5-2, a mission that plans to fill out new “shells” of Starlink satellites that link to the upcoming second-generation Starlink constellation. The Starlink 5-2 mission launched into the predawn darkness at 4:32 AM EST (09:32 UTC) on Thursday, Jan. 26, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40)…
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SpaceX launches heaviest payload on Falcon 9 rocket
Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-2 mission at 4:32 a.m. EST (0932 GMT) on Jan. 26 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] A Falcon 9…
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Space Investment Drops Down to Earth in 2022, With a Focus on the Fundamentals
Rationalization. It’s the word that venture capitalists and analysts use when describing space investment in 2022. After a string of record-setting years that saw space invest rocket to new heights, interest rates rose sharply in 2022 and both private and public equity investors pulled back. While there were still a number of high-profile space funding…
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Launch is Top of Mind as We Start 2023
Welcome to our first edition of Via Satellite in 2023. As always, we start the year with a huge optimism for the year. Last year was characterized by some huge deals as a number of players look to reposition themselves for the decade ahead. This year has already started with lots of news. Firstly, as…
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Japan begins busy year with classified IGS-Radar 7 launch
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Industries have conducted the nation’s first orbital flight of 2023. The mission saw an H-IIA rocket carry the classified IGS-7 radar reconnaissance satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit. Liftoff occurred on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at 01:49:20 UTC from Launch Area Y1 at the Tanegashima Space Center in…
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DIFI Lays the Building Blocks for Ground Tech Interoperability
When things just work, isn’t that really a thing of beauty? When things work, we’re able to do more, to achieve more. We progress. We improve. However, sometimes to get things to work, often means people and organizations collaborating and working together for the greater good. In the ground segment of the satellite industry, it…
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US Space Force Seeks to Bolster Domestic Electronics Capacity for Future Systems
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate is seeking innovative industry solutions to bolster domestic capacity to build high-performance Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) and non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for future systems. “The United States Space Force is seeking to improve the density and performance of SRH NVMs for future space and strategic systems,”…
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ST Engineering iDirect Supplies IoT Solution to Argentina’s ARSAT
ST Engineering iDirect has delivered its IoT solution to ARSAT, Argentina’s state-owned telecommunications company. The IoT solution will enable a number of use cases like fleet tracking, farming data, and disaster recovery and mitigation. The IoT solution incorporates an IoT-optimized waveform and a cloud-based network management system with technology from ST Engineering iDirect’s strategic partner hiSky. System…