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Uncommon Thinkers: How Portal’s Jeff Thornburg plans to harness the heat of the sun in the cold of space
Portal Space Systems CEO Jeff Thornburg checks out the vacuum chamber where space hardware is tested. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Editor’s note: This series profiles six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world. They will be recognized Dec. 11 at the GeekWire Gala. Uncommon Thinkers is presented in…
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HyPrSpace Secures €21 Million to Advance Baguette One Suborbital Launcher
French launch startup HyPrSpace has raised €21 million in a Series A round to accelerate development of its Baguette One suborbital rocket, which is targeting a first flight in late 2026. The financing increases the company’s total backing to more than €57 million, including earlier funding under the France 2030 initiative. The latest round was…
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ST Engineering to Build SAR Satellite for UAE Program
Emirati defense and tech company Edge Group has selected ST Engineering to build a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the UAE’s national SAR constellation program, Sirb. Edge Group subsidiary FADA, which is focused on space, selected ST Engineering to build a SAR satellite with sub-meter resolution and a high-speed downlink. ST Engineering will also…
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The Exploration Company Opens New Facility in France to Advance Development of Nyx Spacecraft
The Exploration Company has inaugurated a new facility in Le Haillan, France, less than a month after opening its new headquarters in Germany. The in-space logistics startup is developing Nyx, a modular capsule intended for cargo transport to and from the International Space Station (ISS), with future variants planned for lunar surface deliveries and crewed…
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BlackSky Releases First Images from New Gen-3 Satellite After Undisclosed Launch
BlackSky Technology released images on Tuesday from a recently launched Gen-3 satellite, reporting that it delivered images from the satellite less than 24 hours after launch. The image (above) collected by the Gen-3 satellite shows the Port of Jebel Ali in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Thousands of vehicles can be seen at the port. The image…
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Infostellar and Fusic Look to Redefine Software Ground System Model in Japan and Beyond
Infostellar and Fusic have an ambitious aim to deliver a new software-defined ground system model to customers in Japan and worldwide, thanks to a new partnership. For Infostellar, it will be looking to bring new AI and IoT elements into the mix by working with Fusic. Infostellar provides a cloud ground-station network, StellarStation, along with…
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NASA Cuts Boeing Starliner Crew Missions, Converts Next Flight to Cargo
NASA said on Monday it has reduced the number of Starliner missions Boeing is required to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) and has redesignated the spacecraft’s next flight as a cargo-only mission, marking the latest shift in the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Under the original contracts awarded to Boeing and SpaceX, each company…
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Breker and Frontgrade Advance Verification of Fault-Tolerant NOEL-V RISC-V Core
Breker Verification Systems, whose portfolio solves challenges across the functional verification process for large, complex semiconductors, and Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, confirmed its RISC-V functional verification solutions were pivotal for the verification of the NOEL-V, one of Frontgrade Gaisler’s fault-tolerant RISC-V processor IP cores. “The…
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Frontgrade Announces Precision Motor Control for Next-Gen Space Missions
Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, announced the release of the RT-SADE (Radiation-Tolerant Solar Array Drive Electronics), a next-generation microprocessor-based stepper motor controller engineered to deliver precision, reliability, and versatility for demanding spacecraft and defense applications. Designed for mission-critical motion control systems such as solar array…
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OQ Technology Delivers Europe’s First Space-Based Mobile Emergency Alert
OQ Technology, a pioneering European direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity provider with 60 MHz of high-priority MSS S-band spectrum, has achieved a major technological milestone using its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to successfully deliver Europe’s first direct-to-mobile emergency broadcast message from space, transmitted directly to standard smartphones without any hardware or software modifications. This…