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Maxar Space Systems Secures New Order for High-Power GEO Communications Satellite
Maxar Space Systems, satellite manufacturer and provider of advanced solutions for space exploration, has received an order for a geostationary (GEO) high-power communications satellite from a private commercial customer. The satellite will be built on the Maxar 1300 series platform at the company’s manufacturing facilities in Palo Alto and San Jose, California. It will feature…
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SatixFy to Showcase Space and Ground SatCOM Solutions at Satellite Show 2025
SatixFy Communications, a leader in next-generation satellite communication systems powered by in-house developed chipsets, announced its participation in Satellite Show 2025, which is taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., from March 11 to 13, 2025. Visitors to the SatixFy booth (#2225) will have the opportunity to explore the Company’s…
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SES Extends Partnership with ProSiebenSat.1 for Satellite and Streaming Integration
SES announced a multi-year extension of its agreement with ProSiebenSat.1. Under the agreement, ProSiebenSat.1 will continue to distribute its programs in Germany and Austria using SES’s satellites at its prime video neighborhood of 19.2 degrees East. Additionally, ProSiebenSat.1 will integrate content from Joyn, its streaming platform in Germany, with SES’s HD+ TV App. For the…
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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lander Successfully Touches Down on the Moon
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface in the early hours of Sunday morning. Firefly said the mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, is the first fully successful soft-landing on the Moon by a commercial company. As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Blue Ghost…
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Launch preview: SpaceX to launch Starship Flight 8 following Monday scrub
SpaceX’s Starship rocket stands at the launch tower ahead of the eighth suborbital flight test. Image: SpaceX Update March 6, 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 UTC): SpaceX is proceeding towards a launch attempt on March 6. SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket from its Starbase facilities in southern Texas following a scrubbed launch attempt…
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Sierra Space to Conduct Cancer Research on Spaceplane Mission to International Space Station
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced new initiatives to advance research and development of biopharmaceutical solutions in low-Earth orbit during the Dream Chaser spaceplane’s inaugural mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The plans include conducting experiments…
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Arianespace successfully launches Ariane 6’s first commercial launch following Monday scrub
An Ariane 6 rocket lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday, March 6, 2025. It marked the first commercial and second overall flight for this rocket program. Image: ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE-ArianeGroup / Optique vidéo du CSG – P PIRON Update March 6, 3:20 p.m. EST (2020 UTC): Arianespace confirms mission success and CNES confirmed…
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Auburn Secures DOD Contract for Critical Space Defense Project
Backed by a recent $11.4 million Department of Defense (DOD) contract through the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Auburn University’s Applied Research Institute (AUARI) in Huntsville, Alabama’s Cummings Research Park is establishing a cutting-edge radiation hardening facility, the only university-led facility of its kind in the nation, to help ensure the reliability of military technology in…
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Firefly’s picture-perfect Moon landing shows the way for lunar exploration
Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to make a picture-perfect landing on the Moon early Sunday, touching down on an ancient basaltic plain, named Mare Crisium, to fulfill a $101 million contract with NASA. The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon’s surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A…