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Launch Previews: Ariane 6, Falcon 9, Atlas V, and Electron launches highlight busy week
Global launch activity is set to surge over the next week, with 13 missions scheduled to launch from sites around the world. China’s Long March 12A is set to debut with stage recovery, South Korea’s first Hanbit-Nano commercial rocket is set to launch, and Europe’s Ariane 6 will launch a batch of Galileo satellites. SpaceX…
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SpaceX advances Starbase upgrades at the launch site
SpaceX continues rapid infrastructure improvements at its Starbase facility in South Texas, with demolition work progressing on the original Pad 1 while construction and testing advance on the newer Pad 2, along with a new ASU facility for on-site commodities. These efforts are aimed at supporting future versions of the Starship vehicle and increasing launch…
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UK Water Company Hails Transformational Deal with ICEYE
Iceye has teamed up with a major water utility company in the U.K., as it looks to improve its flood and wastewater management capabilities. It is working with Severn Trent, a company that serves over 8 million customers in the U.K. The deal has been described as “transformational” by the water company. Iceye announced the…
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Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China
Every other week, it seems, a new Chinese launch company pops up with a rocket design and a plan to reach orbit within a few years. For a long time, the majority of these companies revealed designs that looked a lot like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The first of these copy cats, the medium-lift Zhuque-3…
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ST Engineering iDirect to Work With Capgemini on 5G NTN Satellite Base Station
ST Engineering iDirect is working with Capgemini to develop a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) satellite base station that will enable integration between satellite and terrestrial networks. The companies announced Tuesday they plan to develop a satellite-optimized radio access technology (RAT) within ST Engineering iDirect’s Intuition ground system. The goal is to provide native 3GPP access…
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Rocket Lab Secures CSA Funding to Develop Reaction Wheel for Medium-Class Satellites
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has been awarded funding by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop a new medium-class reaction wheel, with a targeted minimum angular momentum capacity of 25 Nms, designed to support 500kg – 1,000kg satellites with larger payloads operating in low Earth…
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Starfish Space Completes Autonomous LEO Rendezvous & Proximity Operations with Impulse Space
Starfish Space and Impulse Space announced the successful completion of the ‘Remora’ mission, an autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) demonstration in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The Remora mission marked an industry first: a fully autonomous rendezvous executed by Starfish with a single lightweight camera system and closed-loop guidance, navigation and control software running on…
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Firefly Aerospace Integrates Volta Wireless Power Receiver into Blue Ghost Lunar Mission
Firefly Aerospace, a market-leading space and defense technology company, announced a new commercial payload agreement with Volta Space Technologies to host a wireless power receiver on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander on the far side of the Moon. The payload will serve as a technology demonstration for Volta’s planned lunar power network, called LightGrid. “Firefly is…
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Harmonic Drive Highlights Solar Array Drive Technology for Spacecraft Power Generation
Harmonic Drive, a long-established supplier of precision motion-control solutions for aerospace and spaceflight applications, is highlighting the Solar Array Drive (SAD) technology, a critical subsystem enabling accurate and reliable deployment and pointing of spacecraft solar panels. Designed to meet the stringent mechanical, thermal and lifetime requirements of orbital missions, Harmonic Drive’s SAD solutions are widely…
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Hunter Communications Launches Ku-Beam Managed Ku-Band Satellite Connectivity Service
Hunter Communications, a satellite communications service provider specializing in managed bandwidth and teleport services, is highlighting Ku-Beam, the Ku-band satellite connectivity offering designed to support enterprise, government, broadcast and mobility users requiring reliable and flexible satellite communications. Ku-Beam is positioned as a managed Ku-band SATCOM service, integrating satellite capacity, ground infrastructure and network management into…