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Airbus to Provide Poland with a High Resolution Optical Satellite System
Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with Poland to provide a geospatial intelligence system including the development, manufacture, launch, and delivery in orbit of two high-performance optical Earth observation satellites. The contract also covers the associated ground segment, including Direct Receiving Station in Poland, launch services, training for the Polish team, and maintenance,…
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Window for Historic Virgin Orbit UK Launch to Open Jan. 9
The first major launch from U.K. soil could take place as early as next week. Virgin Orbit, the UK Space Agency (UKSA), Cornwall Council and the Royal Air Force announced Jan. 6 that the initial window for the ‘Start Me Up’ mission will officially open on Monday, Jan. 9 at 22:16 UTC with additional back-up…
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Florida Starship pad construction ramps up with arrival of chopsticks carriage
The next piece of SpaceX’s growing Starship infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center arrived at Launch Complex 39A on Friday. A carriage apparatus for the Starship pad’s mechanized chopstick arm system rolled to the complex for installation on the launch pad tower. The chopstick system will move up and down the nearly 500-foot-tall Starship launch tower. The chopstick…
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Airbus Signs Deal to Build 2 EO Satellites for Poland Based on Pléiades Neo
Poland has ordered two Earth observation (EO) satellites from Airbus based on the Airbus Pléiades Neo satellites for sovereign observation capabilities. The deal, announced Jan. 4, is the first export contract for Airbus for the satellite model. Poland will have full autonomy over the images, and which will be downlinked directly in Poland through the…
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Bright Ascension Software Supports 6 Satellites on Latest Rideshare Mission
Bright Ascension confirmed that their six latest GenerationOne flight software deployments were launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 3rd January 2023, taking the current total to 39 spacecraft in orbit. The satellites, developed by Innovative Solutions In Space B.V. (ISISPACE) in the Netherlands and AAC Clyde Space in Scotland for a diverse mix…
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Pale Blue Provides Water-based Propulsion System to Sony for its Spacetainment Project
Pale Blue has provided a water vapor propulsion system (water engine) for a nano-satellite of Sony’s STAR SPHERE Project. The propulsion system will enter and maintain the orbit of the satellite, which will fly in Low Earth Orbit at an altitude of 500 km to 600 km. Leveraging its technology, the water propulsion system will…
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Raytheon and Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems to Start Work on MEO Missile Tracking System
Raytheon Technologies’ Intelligence & Space and Boeing‘s Millennium Space Systems — both in El Segundo, California — are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead Persistent Infrared Sensor (OPIR) payloads under contract awards from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC). Raytheon said on Jan. 4 that its…
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Iridium Partners With Qualcomm for Chips That Enable Satellite-to-Cell Messaging
Iridium Communications unveiled its satellite-to-cell ambitions on Thursday, announcing a partnership with Qualcomm Technologies for satellite-compatible chips that will enable messaging on Android cell phones via Iridium’s satellite constellation. The new Qualcomm chipset can send two-way messages on Iridium’s current satellite network, and the companies reported a successful demonstration this week at the CES trade…
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NorthStar Earth & Space Closes $35M Series C Funding Round
Canadian space startup NorthStar Earth & Space raised $35 million in its Series C funding round, the company announced Thursday. NorthStar is working to offer space-based space situational awareness (SSA) services and said this funding will accelerate its time to product launch. Cartesian Capital Group led the round through Pangaea Three Acquisition Holdings III. The…
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Hughes Network Systems Launches New Managed Cybersecurity Service
Hughes Network Systems is rolling out new managed cybersecurity services geared toward small to mid-sized businesses. The company said these offerings give smaller companies of under 1,000 employees similar resources to large enterprises. The offering includes managed detection and response (MDR) and security operations centers (SOC) as a service. “Small and medium-sized enterprises are at…