Tag: Google
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Spaceflight signs up Google’s Terra Bella for satellite launch on SpaceX rocket
An artist’s conception shows Terra Bella’s SkySat satelltes in orbit. (Credit: Terra Bella) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries says it’s made a deal with Terra Bella to have the Google subsidiary’s Earth-observing satellites launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket next year. The agreement makes Terra Bella, which was known as Skybox Imaging before Google bought it…
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Vega rocket hauls up quintet of Earth observation satellites
The Vega rocket blasted off at 0143:35 GMT Friday (9:43:35 p.m. EDT; 10:43:35 p.m. French Guiana time Thursday) from the Guiana Space Center. Credit: Arianespace Europe’s solid-fueled Vega booster vaulted away from a launch pad in the South American jungle late Thursday and deftly delivered five sharp-eyed Earth observation satellites into two different orbits for…
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Live coverage: Vega rocket blasts off from French Guiana on commercial flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket rocket with PeruSat 1 and four SkySat Earth observation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Timeline for the Vega rocket’s seventh launch
Two orbits. Five satellites. Four upper stage burns. Follow the key events scheduled during the European Vega rocket’s launch from French Guiana with the PeruSat 1 high-resolution reconnaissance satellite and four commercial eyes-in-the-sky owned by Google’s Terra Bella imaging company. Credit: Arianespace T+00:00:00 – Liftoff The Vega rocket’s first stage P80 solid rocket motor ignites…
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FAA puts key Amazon, UPS, Facebook and Google execs on Drone Advisory Committee
An Amazon delivery drone. Photo via Amazon. Gur Kimchi, the vice president of Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery operation, has been named along with a variety of other tech executives to a Drone Advisory Committee that “will help the FAA prioritize its activities, including the development of future regulations and policies” for unmanned aircraft in U.S. airspace. Gur…
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Arianespace to launch satellites for Earth imaging, data relay
File photo of a Vega rocket launch. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Arianespace announced four launch orders this week to deploy spacecraft in orbit for a subsidiary of Google, the United Arab Emirates and Europe’s new laser data relay satellite network. The missions will launch from the Guiana Space…
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Report: Google in talks to invest in SpaceX, boosting Seattle-based satellite initiative
Google CEO Larry Page Google is close to making an investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the intent of supporting the commercial space company’s new Seattle-based satellite Internet initiative, according to a report by The Information this morning, citing people familiar with the talks. The deal, if it happens, would create a powerful alliance between two companies…