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Artemis II Crew Travels Farther from Earth Than Apollo 13 in a New Record
The Artemis II crew has now officially traveled farther from Earth than any previous human mission. On Monday afternoon at approximately 1:56 p.m. EDT, the crew surpassed the Apollo 13 record from 1970 of 248,655 miles, NASA confirmed. Artemis II astronauts Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover of NASA and Jeremy Hansen of the…
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Launch Preview: Falcon 9 to loft Cygnus to ISS, Minotaur IV to launch from California
As NASA’s Artemis II mission reaches its halfway point, the launch manifest on Earth continues to stay busy, with eight launches scheduled for the week of April 6th. SpaceX is expected to launch four Falcon 9s this week, including three Starlink missions and the NG-24 mission to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Minotaur…
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L3Harris Technologies Drives First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years
L3Harris Technologies has successfully powered the historic launch of the Artemis II mission, providing propulsion and avionics for the first crewed journey toward the moon in more than 50 years. “Artemis II marks a new era in human space exploration with the first crewed flight of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft,” said Christopher…
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Space42 and Viasat Share Equatys Progress at Mobile World Congress
Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company, and Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications, discussed continued progress toward their planned direct-to-device (D2D) infrastructure and offered an early look at the priorities for Equatys, the companies’ forthcoming joint entity, during a co-hosted program at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. The program marked the first…
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Phantom Space Acquires Thermal Management Technologies to Advance Orbital Data Centers
Phantom Space Corporation, a leader in responsive space transportation, announced it has completed the strategic acquisition of Thermal Management Technologies, a pioneer in advanced satellite thermal components. The acquisition strengthens Phantom’s vertical integration strategy and directly supports the rapid development of Phantom Cloud, the company’s orbital data center constellation. TMT brings decades of proven success…
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Renesas’ Radiation-Hardened ICs Launch on NASA’s Artemis II Crewed Lunar Mission
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) ICs are being used in NASA’s Artemis II mission, which successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1. The first crewed mission around the moon in decades, Artemis II represents a major milestone in NASA’s plans to…
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Plextek Advances Low SWaP Satellite Solutions for Navigation and Space Safety
Plextek is expanding the role in the space sector by delivering low Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) satellite and space solutions designed to operate reliably in harsh orbital and deep space environments. With extensive expertise in advanced electronics, sensing technologies and RF systems, Plextek supports satellite developers and space innovators with engineering capabilities that span…
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GomSpace Secures 8.8 MSEK Authorization from Unseenlabs for Next Constellation Tranche
GomSpace has received an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) valued at 815.000 EUR (8.8 MSEK) from Unseenlabs, a leading European provider of maritime surveillance and radio-frequency intelligence services. The ATP enables GomSpace to initiate the procurement of key components required for the next tranche of Unseenlabs’ microsatellite constellation. This early authorisation is a critical milestone, allowing both…
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Redwire Corporation Awarded ESA QKDSat Quantum-Secure Spacecraft Contract
Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defence technology solutions, announced that it has been awarded a contract to develop a quantum-secure satellite under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Quantum Key Distribution Satellite (QKDSat), within ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Partnership Projects program. Redwire will manufacture and deliver its European-built Hammerhead spacecraft,…
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Artemis II is going so well that all we’re left to talk about is frozen urine
The Orion spacecraft is now much closer to the Moon than Earth on its 10-day journey into deep space and back, and overall everything is going smashingly well. Things are going so well that, during the daily mission briefings at Johnson Space Center in Houston, there’s just not that much of substance to talk about.…