Tag: Colorado
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BAE Systems to Build Satellite Buses for Vantor’s High-Resolution Vantage Imaging Constellation
BAE Systems will manufacture the satellite buses for Vantor’s new Vantage Earth observation satellites, with the first two spacecraft expected to begin operations by 2029 under a partnership announced by the companies on Wednesday. The agreement marks the latest collaboration between the companies as Vantor expands its commercial imaging satellite capabilities with a new generation…
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Impulse Space Opens Colorado Facility to Support In-Orbit Mobility Spacecraft
Impulse Space has opened a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Louisville, Colorado, expanding its footprint in the state and strengthening the region’s growing space technology cluster. The new site, located at 2000 S. Taylor Ave. in Boulder County, will focus on the development of guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems for the company’s Mira and Helios…
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Sodern Expands Into U.S. With Colorado Manufacturing Site for Star Trackers
Sodern is expanding into the United States with plans to establish manufacturing and testing operations for its satellite navigation equipment in Colorado, marking the company’s first subsidiary outside France. The company said it has set up Sodern America and appointed longtime space industry executive Tiphaine Louradour as chief executive of the new unit. The move…
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Sodern Expands Into U.S. With Colorado Manufacturing Site for Star Trackers
Sodern is expanding into the United States with plans to establish manufacturing and testing operations for its satellite navigation equipment in Colorado, marking the company’s first subsidiary outside France. The company said it has set up Sodern America and appointed longtime space industry executive Tiphaine Louradour as chief executive of the new unit. The move…
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Dream Chaser Completes Key Pre-Flight Tests Ahead of 2026 Orbital Debut
one: the spacecraft demonstrated real-time command and control through NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), successfully receiving telemetry and distributing commands between Mission Control in Louisville, Colorado, and the spacecraft. The company concluded the campaign with a post-landing recovery rehearsal, testing procedures for vehicle safing and rapid access to sensitive payloads immediately after…
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Biden administration reverses Trump decision to relocate US Space Command
President Biden plans to keep the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs and not move it to Alabama as the Air Force proposed under the Trump administration in 2021. It took two-and-a-half years for the decision to come down from the White House, following what the Pentagon said was a “thorough and deliberate…
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Dream Chaser structure arrives at factory for outfitting
The composite structure for Sierra Nevada’s first space-rated Dream Chaser spacecraft. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp. The composite structure of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s first space-rated Dream Chaser space plane has arrived at the company’s Colorado factory for integration with computers, a heat shield and mechanical systems before launch to the International Space Station in late 2021.…
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NASA to fly CubeSat pathfinder for Gateway in unique lunar orbit
A highly elliptical near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon takes advantage of a precise balance point in the gravities of Earth and the Moon and creates a stability that is ideal for long-term missions like Gateway. Credit: Advanced Space As soon as next year, NASA plans to launch a CubeSat the size of a…