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Rocket Report: A good week for Blue Origin; Italy wants its own launch capability
Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We’re publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We don’t expect any Thanksgiving rocket launches this year, but still, there’s a lot to cover from the last six days. It seems like we’ve seen the last…
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Slingshot Aerospace Secures $13.3M NOAA Contract to Develop TRACSS Interface
Slingshot Aerospace, the leading company in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, announced it has been awarded a $13.3 million contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) to build the TraCSS user interface. This contract includes a 12-month development period ($5.3M) with…
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Viasat Achieves First Direct-to-Device Satellite Connectivity Demonstration in Saudi Arabia
Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications, announced it has successfully demonstrated direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity in Saudi Arabia for the first time, in conjunction with its ecosystem partners. Viasat successfully sent satellite-enabled two-way messages and SoS messages to attendees at this week’s ‘Connecting the World from the Skies‘ event, which was hosted by the Communications,…
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China prepares to launch Long March-12 Y1 carrier rocket
China’s Long March-12 Y1 carrier rocket was transported to the launching area of the Hainan commercial space launch site in south China’s Hainan Province on Tuesday, according to the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co., Ltd. The company announced that the rocket will be launched at an appropriate time in the near future. The Long…
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China’s APSTAR-6E satellite completes in-orbit delivery
China’s first all-electric propulsion telecommunication satellite has been formally delivered to its customer while in orbit, opening a new chapter of comprehensive operation and development, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Tuesday. The APSTAR-6E satellite, developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, is a geostationary orbit satellite based on the DFH-3E satellite platform,…
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Firefly Aerospace Completes Testing of Blue Ghost Lander for NASA CLPS Mission
Firefly Aerospace, a leading company in end-to-end responsive space services, announced it completed environmental testing on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the Moon supporting NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly is now preparing to ship the lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in mid-December for launch on a…
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KSAT to Work on Australian Lunar Project
Kongsberg Satellites Services (KSAT) will play a key role in an ambitious lunar project in Australia. It will team up with Australian company Starsite to build a 20-meter antenna for their new site in Western Australia. Starsite owns the land and will maintain and operate the antenna. KSAT announced the partnership, Nov. 26. Starsite was…
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Airbus to Provide UK MoD With Modems for Skynet Milsatcom
Airbus has signed a contract with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence to provide the next-generation modems for the nation’s Skynet satellite communications constellation. Airbus is building the Skynet 6A satellite for the MoD under a 500 million pound contract announced in 2020. Skynet is a milsatcom system for the MoD that provides beyond line…
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Rocket Lab Secures U.S. Department of Commerce Award to Expand Semiconductor Production
Rocket Lab USA, a global leader in launch services and space systems, has finalized a $23.9 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to increase its compound semiconductor manufacturing capability and capacity at the Company’s Albuquerque, New Mexico facility. The semiconductors produced by Rocket Lab are used in space-grade solar cells and other optoelectronic…
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Spectrum AMT Selected as Satellite Bus Manufacturing Partner for D-Orbit USA
Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, a subsidiary of Ocutrx Technologies, and a leading company in precision electronics and assemblies manufacturing for over 25 years, announced it has been named manufacturing partner for D-Orbit USA, the recently formed U.S. member company of Italian space logistics company D-Orbit Group. As part of the partnership, Spectrum is renovating a…