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U.S. Department of Commerce Awards Contracts for a Trial Project Involving Space Traffic Coordinating
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s NOAA has taken a step forward in its plans to provide space traffic coordination services to commercial and civil satellite operators operating in the increasingly congested orbits around Earth. As part of a new pilot project to provide spaceflight safety mission assurance to select spacecraft in the medium Earth orbit…
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OneWeb Orders 10,000 Hughes LEO Terminals for Enterprise Use
OneWeb placed an order with Hughes Network Systems for 10,000 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) terminals for enterprise and government customers, the companies announced Tuesday. There are already prototypes of the terminal and testing underway, and Hughes plans to start production of the LEO terminals for OneWeb in the second half of 2023. Hughes is OneWeb’s ground…
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Microchip Showcases RISC-V-Based FPGA and Space-Compute Solutions at RISC-V Summit
Mid-range FPGAs and System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs have played a major role in moving computer workloads to the network edge. Microchip Technology has helped fuel this transition with its award-winning FPGAs, while also delivering the first RISC-V-based FPGAs that provide twice the power efficiency of competing mid-range FPGAs, and feature a best-in-class design, operating system, and…
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China’s busy year continues with four launches in six days
With Monday’s launch of the Shiyan-20A satellite aboard a Chang Zheng 4C rocket, China has rounded out a busy few days which have seen four orbital launches – including the debut of one new rocket and the first successful flight of another. With just under three weeks remaining, 2022 has already been a record year…
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Artemis 1 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean following a successful test flight
Artemis 1 splashdown completes Orion’s test flight On Sunday, December 11, at 12:40 p.m. EST, Orion splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to complete NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. This was one of NASA’s major test cases for the mission to launch crew on the Artemis 2 flight in the coming years. To test Orion’s heatshield…
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Terran Orbital Successfully Demonstrates 1.4 Terabyte Single-Pass Optical Downlink for NASA’s Satellite
Terran Orbital Corporation, a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced its contribution to the successful demonstration of a record-breaking 1.4-terabytes of data delivered from space to ground by an optical downlink in a single pass. The demonstration connected the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) laser communications payload aboard NASA’s…
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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:40 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test. Splashdown is the final milestone of the Artemis I mission…
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First in new generation of European weather satellites ready for launch
The MTG-I1 satellite is integrated with its Ariane 5 rocket at the Guiana Space Center. Credit: Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Baudon The first in a new generation of European weather satellites is set for launch Tuesday on a mission that promises to improve the timeliness and precision of weather forecasts for Europe and Africa, sharing a ride…
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Boeing Delivers First Two O3b mPOWER Satellites to SES
Boeing has delivered the first two O3b mPOWER satellites to SES, a leader in global content connectivity solutions. The all-digital satellites are being prepared in Florida for launch to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), 8,000 km from Earth, where they will provide low-latency, high-throughput connectivity to users around the world. The satellites combine Boeing’s flight-proven 702…
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Artemis I review shows perfect ICPS performance, ULA looks to next Artemis launches
United Launch Alliance (ULA), the prime contractor for the Space Launch System’s (SLS’s) Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), has declared the stage’s overall performance on the Artemis I mission as “perfect.” The ICPS is the in-space upper stage of the SLS stack. On Artemis I, it was responsible for raising the initial orbital perigee and…