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SpiderOak Raises $16.4M in Series C Round
Space cybersecurity firm SpiderOak has raised $16.4 million in a Series C round led by Empyrean Technology Solutions. The lead investor is a space technology platform backed by funds affiliated with private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners. The oversubscribed round included additional investment from Method Capital, and OCA Ventures. SpiderOak offers OrbitSecure, a zero-trust cybersecurity…
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Britain’s Historic Satellite Launch Ends in Failure due to ‘Anomaly’
The historic first attempt to launch satellites from British soil reached space but ultimately fell short of reaching its target orbit. After successfully taking off from the runway at Spaceport Cornwall which just a few weeks ago was transformed from a mere slab of empty cement at a commercial airport to the world’s newest space…
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SatixFy Names Ido Gur as New CEO
SatixFy Communications names Ido Gur as its new CEO, the company’s second permanent CEO in less than a year. Gur joins SatixFy after Saguna, the edge cloud computing company he led, was acquired. Gur has more than 20 years of senior management experience in a range of industries, including telecommunications, mobile, networking, wireless and radio…
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Eutelsat Hits Milestone of Connecting 200,000 People in Africa With Konnect Wi-Fi Hotspots
Eutelsat Communications has reached a key milestone for connecting people in Africa. The operator announced Jan. 12 that it had hit the 200,000-user mark for its Konnect Wi-Fi hotspots in the region. This follows on from the announcement in June last year, where Eutelsat joined the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Partner2Connect Digital Coalition. The coalition…
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Terran Orbital’s GEOStare SV2 Spacecraft Completes Commercial Imaging Contract for Lockheed Martin
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced its GEOStare SV2 spacecraft completed a commercial data services imagery contract for Lockheed Martin. Throughout the duration of the contract, Terran Orbital’s operations team successfully demonstrated the ability to rapidly re-task the spacecraft to assemble a…
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Dragonfly mission heads toward PDR, element fabrication from Lockheed Martin set to begin
Dragonfly, NASA’s unique robotic exploration mission using a rotorcraft to fly a science laboratory around the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, is continuing to march through its preliminary design steps. Rotor design and testing for the craft as well as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) from Lockheed Martin on the subsystem portions of their contracted elements…
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China launches new telecommunication satellite
China successfully sent a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Friday. The APSTAR-6E telecommunication satellite was launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:10 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered its planned orbit successfully. The satellite is mainly used to provide high-throughput communication services for…
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Rocket Factory Augsburg Plans First Mission From Scotland’s SaxaVord Spaceport
German launcher in development Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has signed a deal for its first mission late this year to lift off from the SaxaVord Spaceport on Scotland’s Shetland island. RFA will have exclusive access to Launch Pad Fredo for orbital launches, the companies announced Jan. 11. SaxaVord Spaceport is a commercial spaceport located at…
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Axelspace to Provide Satellite Imaging Data for NorthStar’s SSA Services
Axelspace is contributing to NorthStar Earth & Space’s space situational awareness (SSA) data under a new agreement announced Jan. 11. Axelspace is a Japanese smallsat manufacturer and Earth observation (EO) company. The company announced that five of its AxelGlobe EO satellites, called GRUS, will provide complementary satellite imaging data for NorthStar’s SSA efforts. NorthStar is…
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Norwegian-Dutch Nanosatellites Successfully Launched by SpaceX
Two Norwegian-Dutch nanosatellites were successfully launched. “Birkeland” and “Huygens” were placed in orbit around the earth by the company SpaceX. MilSpace2 is a cooperation project between the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research…