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SpaceRyde Signs an Agreement with Qosmosys to be the Launch Partner for First In-space Satellite Racing Game
SpaceRyde, the space transportation company building the first interplanetary logistics infrastructure known as the Rocket Network has announced a customer agreement with Qosmosys to be the official launch partner of Qosmosys’ Qace, the first in-space satellite racing game. Qosmosys is a private company established in Singapore with the purpose of contributing to the development of…
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Canada Commits to Support Commercial Space Launch
The government of Canada is making space launch a priority, announcing a series of measures on Friday to license commercial space launch from the country. Transport Canada, the nation’s federal institution responsible for transportation policies and programs, said it will license commercial space launch on a case-by-case basis while it develops regulatory requirements, safety standards…
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InSight’s importance: Seismic measurements, new terrain highlight ground-breaking mission
NASA’s InSight lander, formally known as the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport mission, wrapped a four-year scientific expedition on Mars in December 2022 after the lander succumbed to low power levels. Throughout its mission, InSight studied Mars extensively, collecting a plethora of ground-breaking science on the planet’s interior and exterior geologic…
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Europe‘s First Solar Sail Mission Successfully Launched by SpaceX
Kongsberg NanoAvionics has announced the successful launch of Europe‘s first solar sail mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-6. The 6U nanosatellite nicknamed ‘Alpha’ was manufactured for France’s Gama. It is one of four satellites, built by the Lithuanian smallsat mission integrator for multiple customers, that got sent into low Earth Orbit. It is the first time for…
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Spaceflight Signs Deal to Launch Sherpa Vehicles on Maritime Launch Services Missions
Spaceflight Inc., a premier launch and in-space transportation services provider, announced it has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services Inc. to launch up to five of its Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs). The launches will be from Spaceport Nova Scotia aboard the Cyclone-4M beginning in 2025. Spaceflight has successfully delivered more than 550 spacecraft…
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UK Astronaut Tim Peake to Take on a New Ambassadorial Role for ESA
Tim Peake, one of the most well-known names in the U.K. space industry, is to step down from the active European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut corps and assume an ambassadorial role for space, ESA announced Jan 20. Peake will work closely with the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and ESA in his new role, where he…
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Space Capital Reports a 2022 Drop in Startup Investment, as Investors ‘Shift to Fundamentals’
Last year was the “most difficult investment environment since the Great Recession,” Space Capital said in its 2022 space investment report, but the firm is also optimistic and said 2022 also marked a shift back to the fundamentals. Space Capital released its fourth quarter 2022 report on Jan. 19, reporting total space investment was down…
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Slingshot Aerospace Awards Contract to HawkEye 360
HawkEye 360, the world’s leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, has announced that Slingshot Aerospace has awarded the RF data provider a contract to provide data for Slingshot’s space-based monitoring and detection of RF threats and to support Slingshot’s proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing (DEEP)…
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Consolidation and Climate: Space Industry Trends to Watch in 2023
The past year saw huge advancements in the space industry. We witnessed landmark achievements such as the discovery of the earliest galaxies seen to date, and the release of the first images from the James Webb Telescope, marking the dawn of a new era in astronomy. Space has once again entered the mainstream, inspiring the…
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Arianespace Appoints Steven Rutgers as new Chief Commercial Officer
Arianespace has appointed Steven Rutgers to serve as its next chief commercial officer. Rutgers joins Arianespace from IoT startup Hiber, where he was vice president of sales. He has a more than two-decade long career in the space industry and has worked with Inmarsat distributor Xanticm and with Stratos and Inmarsat, and he has worked…