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Beyond Gravity Powers ESA’s Biomass Satellite with Key Tech for Climate Mission Launch
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) highly anticipated “Biomass” satellite is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, April 29, aboard a European Vega-C rocket from the Kourou Spaceport in South America. Developed to monitor global forest biomass and support climate research, the mission features several crucial components supplied by the Swiss space technology company Beyond Gravity. Around 30%…
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Space Systems Command Awards SciTech New FORGE Framework Contract
Space Systems Command (SSC) on Tuesday said it has awarded SciTec, Inc. a $259 million contract to deliver a ground-processing capability that supports the U.S. Space Force’s legacy and new missile warning and tracking satellites. The current Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) framework includes hardware and software that host overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) mission applications.…
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Rocket Lab Sets Launch Date for Upcoming Mission with Multi-Launch Customer iQPS
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). The mission, named ‘The Sea God Sees’, will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on…
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Vitesse Systems Completes Development and Testing of Additively-Manufactured Satellite Antennas
Vitesse Systems has announced the completion of the installation of two additional additive manufacturing machines and the delivery of what it believes to be one of the largest additively manufactured satellite antennas in history. The antenna was designed, built, and tested at Vitesse’s antenna center of excellence in Longmont, Colorado. Vitesse leverages additive manufacturing to…
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Northrop Grumman Expands Relay Ground Stations for US Space Force’s OPIR Program
Northrop Grumman, a leading global aerospace and defense technology company, has been awarded a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) to provide advanced relay ground stations in the U.S. and U.K. to support the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program. This modernization initiative aligns with the USSF’s mission to…
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iDirect Gov Software Defined Radio Integrated into Airbus Ranger Flyaway Terminal
Airbus DS Government Solutions has integrated an iDirect Government software defined radio (SDR) satellite modem into its Ranger Flyaway terminal. iDirect Gov announced Tuesday that Airbus successfully integrated and tested the 450 SDR satellite modem for the Ranger Flyaway milsatcom terminal. The 450 SDR is iDirect Gov’s first custom multi-orbit, multi-waveform SDR modem. It has…
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Telesat LEO Backlog Nears $1.1B Canadian After Viasat Deal
Rendering of Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO constellation. Photo: Telesat Telesat’s backlog for its Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation is now nearly $1.1 billion Canadian dollars ($800 million) after signing a capacity deal with Viasat in April. Earlier this year, Telesat reported a Lightspeed backlog of around CA$600 million, indicating the operator has signed roughly CA$500 million…
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Tuesday Telescope: After spacewalking, an astronaut strikes lightning
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is…
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Planet to Supply Imagery to German Government for Land and Water Management
Planet Labs Germany, part of the Planet Group, signed government deal in Germany as the German government looks to improve its water and land management from space. Planet signed a seven-figure contract with the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) for an initial one year time period, with an option for two more…
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Capella Space Receives Level 2 Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
Capella Space, an American space tech company with data and satellite solutions for government and commercial applications, announced that the company achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2, authorizing Capella to store, process, and transmit US government Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Kratos Defense & Security Solutions served as a Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO), validating…