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Telesat Appoints Philip Harlow to Lead Government Solutions Business
Telesat has appointed Philip Harlow as president of Telesat Government Solutions, the company’s subsidiary that provides satellite solutions to the U.S. government and allied nations. He will replace Tom Eaton, who announced this past summer that he would retire at the end of the year after serving as president of Telesat Government Solutions since October…
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On Orbit’s Future Space Economy Series: The Next Giant Leap
This is the very first episode of the On Orbit Podcast’s new “Future Space Economy” educational series – designed to educate audiences about the opportunities, challenges, risks, and rewards of expanding economic activity off-world. This webcast series will highlight specific activities in space, ranging from healthcare, research, mining, tourism, and energy. In this debut episode,…
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FCC to Consider Changes to Satellite Rulemaking This Week
The FCC is considering making changes to satellite rulemaking at its open meeting this week. Ahead of the December meeting, the Commission released a notice of proposed rulemaking called: Expediting Initial Processing of Satellite and Earth Station Applications. It seeks comment on changes to its policies that deal with applications for satellite systems and Earth…
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SES’s First Two O3b mPOWER Satellites Successfully Launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
SES announced that the first two O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. Built by Boeing and designed to deliver unprecedented performance with a first-of-its-kind software-driven payload, O3b mPOWER is SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system. Customers…
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Two Airbus Earth-imaging satellites poised for launch on Vega C rocket
A Vega C rocket on its launch pad in French Guiana with the Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging satellites inside the payload fairing. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/S. Martin Two Pléiades Neo Earth observation satellites are set to join Airbus’s constellation of high-resolution optical imagers with a launch Tuesday night from French Guiana on the first commercial flight of Europe’s…
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With Hubble and Spitzer, researchers discover water-filled exoplanets
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Spitzer Space Telescope, a group of researchers has discovered two exoplanets that may be largely comprised of water. Located around a red dwarf star 218 light-years away, the two planets are low in density. Furthermore, the researchers, led by Caroline Piaulet of the Trottier Institute for…
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SpaceX Starlink Internet Service Surpasses 1M Subscribers
SpaceX announced on Monday that Starlink satellite internet service surpassed 1 million subscribers. “Starlink now has more than 1,000,000 active subscribers – thank you to all customers and members of the Starlink team who contributed to this milestone,” SpaceX tweeted Monday. Starlink is a constellation of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) that provides broadband internet…
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Russians assess flight worthiness of damaged Soyuz docked at space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is pictured docked at the International Space Station in this Oct. 8 file photo. Credit: NASA Russian managers are assessing whether a damaged Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station can safely carry its three-man crew back to Earth in late March as…
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L3Harris Makes a $4.7 Billion Deal for Aerojet Rocketdyne
Nearly a year after the collapse of a proposed deal by Lockheed Martin to buy engine and rocket maker Aerojet Rocketdyne, the only independent supplier of tactical rocket motors and engines for space launch vehicles last Saturday found a new suitor, L3Harris Technologies, which agreed to buy the company for $4.7 billion. L3Harris will pay $58 per share…
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Hypernova to Test Electric Propulsion System on EnduroSat’s Platform
Hypernova will validate its proprietary plasma electric propulsion system, in orbit, on EnduroSat’s Platform-2. The launch is scheduled for January 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-6 mission. With support from EnduroSat’s Space Service, the thrusters are expected to perform an extensive testing campaign with several satellite maneuvers under a wide variety of operational modes &…