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Thales Alenia Space Begins Instrument Integration for Europe’s First CO2 Monitoring Satellite
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has completed the assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) of the MicroCarb satellite platform, and is now ready to begin the integration of the dispersive spectrometer delivered to the UK, bringing this important climate mission a step closer to launch in early 2024. MicroCarb…
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Live coverage: Rocket Lab launch on hold due to unfavorable winds aloft
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. The Electron rocket will carry three radio frequency monitoring microsatellites into orbit for HawkEye 360. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Rocket Lab’s live video webcast begins approximately…
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FAA clears Rocket Lab for first launch from U.S. spaceport
Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher on the pad at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: Rocket Lab / Trevor Mahlmann Rocket Lab said Saturday that the company received final approval from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration to launch their first mission from the United States on Sunday, clearing final regulatory and technical hurdles with a new autonomous…
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SpaceX launches second mission from Florida within two days
SpaceX has launched the a pair of Falcon 9 missions approximately 23 hours apart from the company’s two Florida launch pads. The first mission carried the first two satellites for a new constellation known as O3b mPOWER to orbit on Friday, Dec. 16, with liftoff coming at the very end of an 87-minute launch window…
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SpaceX booster launches for record 15th time on Starlink mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch a replay of our live coverage of the Falcon 9 launch with the Starlink 4-37 mission. SpaceX launched 54 more Starlink internet satellites Saturday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using a Falcon 9 booster on its 15th flight to space, a record for the company’s reusable rocket fleet. Liftoff of the 229-foot-tall…
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Sidus Space Selects Exolaunch for LizzieSat Deployment
Sidus Space, a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection recently signed an agreement with Exolaunch to use their CarboNIX separation system to deploy LizzieSat satellites during the LizzieSat rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2023 and 2024. This agreement includes comprehensive technical support that ensures…
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SES Sees its First O3b mPOWER Satellites Launch With SpaceX
SES celebrated the start of a new era for the company on Friday evening, with the launch of its first O3b mPOWER satellites. The Boeing-built satellites will bring orders of magnitude more capacity to the market than its predecessor, O3b. SpaceX launched the first two satellites of the constellation on Dec. 16 at 5:48 p.m.…
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Spotify Wrapped in Space: The Satellite Industry’s 2022 Playlist
It has been quite a year for the satellite industry. There have been deals aplenty and the industry is looking forward to an exciting 2023. However, to end the year, we thought we would end on something a bit different. The Spotify Wrapped feature is a popular feature now that analyzes what music you listened,…
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Astroscale Signs Partnerships to Market ADRAS-J Missions
Astroscale Japan has signed a new marketing partnership deal with three companies in Japan. The MoU with Yusen Logistics, Mizuho Bank, and Kids Station, will see these companies support Astroscale’s space debris removal demonstration satellite, Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J). Astroscale announced the deal, Dec. 15. The ADRAS-J satellite is designed to rendezvous with a Japanese…
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Maxar Gets a Premium in Private Equity Deal and Firepower to Boot
Maxar Technologies on Friday said it has agreed to be acquired by the private equity firm Advent International for about $4 billion in cash, a $53 per share price that is 129% above the closing price of the company’s shares on Thursday and about 34% above the high point of Maxar’s 52-week trading period. The…