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New Glenn approaches hot fire ahead of debut launch
Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket is just a few milestones from its maiden launch. Earlier this month the 98-meter-tall, seven-meter-wide launch vehicle was rolled out to the launch pad at the company’s Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) ahead of hot fire testing. This test should be the final major event before the rocket is ready…
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Lockheed Martin’s TacSat Ready for Launch on Firefly Alpha Rocket
Lockheed Martin’s newest technology demonstration, called the Tactical Satellite (TacSat), is complete and ready for launch in 2025 aboard a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket. TacSat is an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance spacecraft whose mission is to prove specialized sensing and communications capabilities in orbit. Next year, the satellite will participate in exercises that highlight cross-domain…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Prepares for Inaugural Launch with Blue Ring Pathfinder
Blue Origin’s payload for New Glenn’s first mission, NG-1, is ready for launch this year. NG-1 will carry the company’s Blue Ring Pathfinder and mark the rocket’s first National Security Space Launch certification flight. The encapsulated payload will be integrated onto the launch vehicle following the hotfire. New Glenn will lift off from Blue Origin’s…
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Southwest Research Institute Secures Contract to Develop NOAA’s Space Weather Magnetometer
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build the Next-Generation Space Weather Magnetometer for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is valued at approximately $26.1 million and includes the development of…
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Redwire Secures $45M AFRL Contract to Enhance Space-Based Defense Technologies
Redwire Corporation, a leading company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, was awarded a $45,469,600, five-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that will be incrementally funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate for the design, development, and testing of prototype software and hardware for mission critical technologies. The contract will support…
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New Partnership Allows Maxar to Task Satellogic Satellites
A new agreement between Maxar Intelligence and Satellogic allows Maxar to task Satellogic’s constellation to support national security missions for the U.S. government and select U.S. partners internationally. The companies said in a Dec. 11 announcement that bringing together Satellogic’s high frequency revisit capability with Maxar’s high resolution imaging and AI technologies “creates a differentiated…
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Space Policy Needs to Take Priority for Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation, Experts Say
PERTH, Western Australia — Space policy needs to take center stage in Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific regional co-operation to help address shared issues the region faces, regional leaders said at the Indo-Pacific Space and Earth Conference (IPSEC) in Perth, Western Australia in late November. The Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific regions are at a “pivotal moment” with the…
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IPSTAR to Provide Satellite Services in India from IN-SPACe
Thaicom Public Company, an Asian satellite and space tech company, announced that its 100% own subsidiary IPSTAR (India) has obtained an authorization to provide satellite services over THAICOM satellites in India from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center, or IN-SPACe, an autonomous nodal agency under Department of Space, Government of India to promote,…
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Space42 and ICEYE Partners to Establish Satellite Manufacturing in the UAE
Space42, a UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company with a global reach, and ICEYE, a global company in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations for high-fidelity Earth Observation, announced the creation of a joint venture to manufacture SAR satellites in the UAE, building upon Space42 and ICEYE’s successful collaboration for the production of the first batch of…
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AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone Signs Long-Term Agreement to Expand Space-Based Broadband
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, and Vodafone Group Plc, a European and African telecommunications company, announced that they have entered into a definitive long-term commercial agreement through 2034. This is a significant step forward in…