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After key Russian launch site is damaged, NASA accelerates Dragon supply missions
With a key Russian launch pad out of service, NASA is accelerating the launch of two Cargo Dragon spaceships in order to ensure that astronauts on board the International Space Station have all the supplies they need next year. According to the space agency’s internal schedule, the next Dragon supply mission, CRS-34, is moving forward…
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NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running well past its warranty. Ground teams last heard from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft on Saturday,…
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Keysight Technologies, KT-SAT Demonstrate NR-NTN Multi-Orbit Handover Using KOREASAT-6A Satellite
Keysight Technologies and KT SAT completed what they called “the industry’s first successful NR-NTN multi-orbit handover between a commercial GEO satellite and an emulated LEO link” based on a lab trial using the KOREASAT-6A satellite. The companies said the demonstration took place in a controlled lab environment at KT SAT’s Kumsan Satellite Network Operation Center…
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Antaris Showcases SatOS Software Platform for Flexible Spacecraft Development
Antaris, a space-software company focused on accelerating spacecraft development and operations, highlights SatOS™, the open and modular spacecraft operating environment engineered to reduce complexity in satellite software integration. SatOS is designed to address common challenges faced by satellite builders such as fragmented software stacks, hardware-specific coding requirements, lengthy qualification cycles and high non-recurring engineering (NRE)…
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SpaceX breaks launch pad turnaround record with flight of Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral carrying 29 Starlink satellites headed to low earth orbit. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched another batch of 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit on its Falcon 9 rocket Thursday afternoon breaking its pad turnaround record by nearly five hours. Liftoff from pad…
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Teledyne e2v Space Services Supporting Next-Generation Satellite and Space Systems
Teledyne e2v, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, supplies a broad range of radiation-tolerant semiconductors, high-reliability electronics and imaging devices for spacecraft and scientific missions. Headquartered in Chelmsford, United Kingdom, the company operates additional engineering, manufacturing and radiation-test facilities across Europe and North America. The space-qualified product portfolio including data converters, microprocessors, RF devices,…
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Voyager Secures $21 Million AFRL Contract to Develop AI-Powered ISR Systems
Voyager Technologies is on contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory under a $21 million contract to develop AI-enabled next-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. “Today’s threats change fast, so our systems must adapt faster than the threats they counter,” said Matt Magaña, president of Space, Defense & National Security at Voyager. “By combining next-generation…
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Sidus Space Completes Bus-Level Commissioning of LizzieSat-3
Sidus Space, an innovative space and defense technology company, announced the successful bus-level commissioning of its LizzieSat-3 (LS-3) spacecraft. This milestone marks another significant step forward in the Company’s mission to deliver high-value space-based data, integrated sensor solutions, and autonomous on-orbit computing to government and commercial customers. Following its deployment earlier this year, LS-3 completed…
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Benchmark Space System Demonstrates World’s First High-Throughput ASCENT Thruster at AFRL
Benchmark Space Systems has achieved a major propulsion milestone with the successful hotfire demonstration of the 22-Newton ASCENT thruster, marking the first large-scale, sustained burn of the government-developed monopropellant ever conducted. The achievement, validated in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerospace Systems Directorate, at Edwards AFB, proves that ASCENT propulsion has transcended…
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KONGSBERG and Helsing Collaborates to Advance European Space Capabilities
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, the Norwegian defence technology company, and Helsing, the German defence technology company, have signed a teaming agreement to accelerate the realisation of critical European space capabilities. The companies aim to deploy a sovereign, space-based intelligence, surveillance, and targeting (IST) constellation with an interconnected comms layer for Europe by 2029. HENSOLDT, the…