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Terran Orbital Completes Satellite Bus Deliveries for Lockheed Martin’s Tranche 1
Terran Orbital Corporation, a leading manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced the successful delivery of all 42 satellite bus platforms for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 1 program. These spacecraft help form a resilient, low-latency communications network in low Earth orbit, designed to deliver…
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NASA names 24th astronaut class, including prior SpaceX crew member
NASA has named its new group of astronaut candidates. The space agency on Monday introduced the four men and six women who comprise its 2025 trainee class during a ceremony held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Following two years of basic training, the new candidates will be eligible for mission assignments in low-Earth…
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Terran Orbital Completes Delivery of 42 Buses for SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer
Terran Orbital has completed delivery of 42 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1, Transport Layer. Lockheed awarded Terran Orbital the subcontract in 2022 to support its own $700 million contract to provide 42 satellites for the data transport system. Terran Orbital is now owned by Lockheed Martin after…
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US intel officials “concerned” China will soon master reusable launch
SpaceX scored its 500th landing of a Falcon 9 first stage booster on an otherwise routine flight earlier this month, sending 28 Starlink communications satellites into orbit. Barring any unforeseen problems, SpaceX will mark the 500th re-flight of a Falcon first stage later this year. A handful of other US companies, including Blue Origin, Rocket…
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Seraphim Space, Iceye, and HawkEye 360 CEOs Unpack Defense Trends for Space
From left: Seraphim Space CEO Mark Boggett, HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini, and Iceye CEO Rafal Modrzewski Photo: Via Satellite Via Satellite Editor Mark Holmes interviewed leaders from Seraphim Space, Iceye, and HawkEye 360 during World Space Business Week about how space companies are seeing increased demand for space capabilities to support defense, and how…
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Swissto12 Opens New Satellite R&D Facility in Madrid
Swissto12 has opened a new engineering and R&D facility in Madrid, Spain to accelerate development of satellite systems and user terminals. The company has a growing Spanish team of engineers and architects of satellite payloads, antenna technologies, and satellite systems. The new facility will continue its work with phased array antennas for satellite payloads and…
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NASA, SpaceX launch IMAP and rideshare payloads to study space weather at L1
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) from Florida on Wednesday morning. Joining IMAP on its way to Lagrange Point 1 are two additional rideshare payloads: NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) and the joint NASA/University of Illinois Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. Liftoff took place on Wednesday, Sept. 24,…
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ThinKom and KSAT to Partner on Ground Station for EO Data
ThinKom and KSAT are partnering with the goal of improving operational efficiency for their Earth Observation (EO) customers. The two companies will develop a commercially viable receive-only ground station, with the goal to improve overall network capacity. The two companies made the announcement, Sept. 23. Under the agreement, ThinKom will develop a Ka-band version of…
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Safran and QinetiQ Partners to Deliver Anti-Jamming PNT Capabilities for UK Armed Forces
Safran Electronics & Defense and QinetiQ have entered a strategic partnership to deliver sovereign and resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD). This collaboration addresses the urgent need for trusted PNT capabilities in increasingly challenging and GNSS-denied operational environments. By integrating QinetiQ’s Q40 GNSS receiver with Safran’s…