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New Glenn to make another launch attempt early Thursday
Blue Origin announced late on Monday afternoon that it planned to make a second attempt to launch the New Glenn rocket at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Tuesday. But then, a couple of hours later, the company said it would move the launch to Thursday. Although the company provided no information about why it…
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Falcon 9 launches two landers to the Moon on the same mission
SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where the Apollo 11 crew launched to the Moon. A Falcon 9 successfully lifted off during an instantaneous window on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 1:11 AM EST (06:11 UTC) from Launch Complex…
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SpaceX launches 131 spacecraft on Transporter-12 Falcon 9 rideshare mission from California
A Falcon 9 rocket roars away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 14, 2025, on the Transporter 12 mission. Image: Space X. SpaceX launched 131 payloads Tuesday onboard the company’s 12th smallsat rideshare mission to date. The Transporter-12 mission flew onboard a Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force…
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Gilat Secures $3 Million in Orders for Gateway SSPAs to Support LEO Constellations
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., a worldwide leading company in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, announced orders exceeding $3 million from leading service providers for Gilat’s Gateway Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) to support Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations. These orders are expected to be delivered in the coming 12 months. Gilat’s high-performance SSPAs are…
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The Halfway Point in a Key Decade
2025 is here. It is hard to believe we are now nearer 2030 than 2020, but here are. It promises to be a pivotal decade for the space industry on a number of levels. We are also in the run-up to SATELITE 2025, which will once again be the forum for key industry discussions that…
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Redwire Delivers Fourth Set of Roll-Out Solar Arrays to Power the International Space Station
Redwire Corporation, a company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced the successful delivery of the fourth pair of Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings for the International Space Station (ISS), also known as the IROSA program. The wings were developed and delivered through a follow-on contract with Boeing, NASA’s prime contractor for…
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Momentum for Satellite Direct-to-Device Hits Critical Mass Heading into 2025
Momentum for direct-to-device technology and services hit a critical mass in 2024. Of course, not everyone has it on their phone today, but public consciousness reached a new level last year with new phones adopting the service, and the high-profile, real-life use cases during the U.S. hurricane season in the fall. The past year was…
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Cyber Experts Assesses the Impact of New Quantum Standards
Quantum computing is set to impact space networks, and the past year saw a number of updates in quantum regulations. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in August finalized a principal set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand cyberattacks from a quantum computer. The algorithms announced are specified in…
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L3Harris Secures U.S. Space Force Contract to Develop Resilient GPS Satellite Concepts
L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to design concepts for Phase 0 of the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program. The R-GPS program involves procuring cost-effective small satellites to augment the existing 31-satellite GPS constellation, providing resilience to military and civil GPS users. Space Force plans to…
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Next-Gen Globalstar: CEO Paul Jacobs Talks Growth in D2D, IoT, and Satellite/Cellular Convergence
Globalstar has been through a reinvigoration over the past few years through its deal with Apple to provide the satellite capacity for iPhone satellite messaging. After a few years of working together, Apple doubled down on the partnership in 2024, ordering a separate, new constellation from Globalstar in addition to the one already in the…