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Sidus Space Confirms Successful Deployment and Operation of FeatherEdge Gen-2 on LizzieSat-3
Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, announced the successful on-orbit operation of its advanced onboard edge computer, FeatherEdge GEN-2, integrated into the ongoing commissioning of LizzieSat-3 (LS-3). FeatherEdge™ GEN-2 is now flight-proven and commercially available, offering 100 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI processing power in a space-hardened, compact format. By leveraging…
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Key Geospatial Intel Lesson of Ukraine War Is Closing Kill Chain, NATO Official Says
ST. LOUIS — The use of geospatial intelligence to accelerate decision making from the time a potential target has been detected until an effect is put against it has been an important lesson in the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War, a NATO official said on Monday. Having situational awareness, and then taking advantage of this to impact…
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Launch Roundup: Starship Flight 9; SpaceX starts new Starlink shell; China, Russia also launch
This Launch Roundup has been extended to include the launch of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 9 on Tuesday/Wednesday. SpaceX was expected to begin building a new shell for its Starlink constellation last week, launching from Vandenberg to a polar orbit. This mission was postponed until Tuesday and now falls into the scope of this Roundup. Two…
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Rocket Lab Launches Third Mission for iQPS in Multi-Launch Contract
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its third mission for Japanese customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space. ‘The Sea God Sees’ mission successfully launched on Electron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 8:17 p.m. on May 17th, 2025. The mission carried…
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Arabsat Selects Telesat Lightspeed LEO Services for its Multi-Orbit Connectivity Portfolio
Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat), the top satellite service provider in the Arab world, announced the companies have successfully negotiated and signed a Term Sheet for a multi-Gbps capacity pool of Telesat Lightspeed connectivity services. The companies executed the agreement today during a…
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UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory: Redefining Small Satellite Capabilities for Global Space Missions
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory, Established in 1998, is a research center within the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, located in Toronto, Canada. SFL specializes in the design, development, and operation of low-cost, high-performance small satellites, including micro- and nanosatellites. With a mission to make space more accessible, SFL has contributed to over 84…
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Eutelsat and BHS Renew Partnership for Satellite Contribution Services
Eutelsat Group and BHS Media Group are pleased to announce the renewal of their satellite contribution contract, reinforcing their long-standing collaboration to deliver high-quality video services across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This agreement extends the capacity leased on the EUTELSAT 21B and EUTELSAT 70B satellites, ensuring seamless content delivery for BHS’…
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Honeywell Aerospace’s High Speed Satcom System Selected for Advanced US Army Aircraft
Honeywell announced its JetWave X satellite communication system has been selected by L3Harris Technologies to upgrade the U.S. Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES) to provide soldiers with improved connectivity around the globe. With JetWave X, the U.S. Army will be able to transmit mission-critical information at higher data rates than currently available…
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Webb, Keck observe Titan; find clouds and carbon molecule in northern hemisphere
By combining data from the Keck II telescope and the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists observed cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Titan — the first time such atmospheric activity has been observed in the region. A majority of Titan’s methane lakes and…
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Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird. Ars published a story a few months ago on spaceflight patches from NASA, SpaceX, Russia, and the NRO, the US government’s spy satellite agency, which is responsible for…