Tag: Ground
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NASA Launches TRACERS Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, will soon begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, the twin TRACERS spacecraft lifted off at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4…
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Earth Fire Alliance, Muon Space & Google Announces First FireSat Wildfire Images
Earth Fire Alliance, the global nonprofit coalition committed to delivering transformative data and insights from all wildfires on Earth, in collaboration with Muon Space and Google Research, released the first wildfire images captured by the FireSat Protoflight satellite. Collectively, these images demonstrate the powerful impact FireSat will have on communities and the firefighters who protect…
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BlackSky Secures Contract to Deliver Real-Time Satellite Monitoring in Latin America
BlackSky Technology won a contract to provide immediate On-Demand subscription-based Gen-3 and Gen-2 monitoring services for Latin American defense and intelligence customers in the fight against transnational organized crime. “BlackSky’s low-latency, high-cadence monitoring services give government security forces an unparalleled strategic and tactical first-to-act advantage,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “By increasing the speed, volume,…
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Terma and Odd Systems Partners to Develop AI-Powered Drone Interceptor
Terma Group, Denmark’s largest defense technology company, announces a new partnership with Ukrainian drone and camera manufacturer Odd Systems to co-develop a low-cost, AI-powered autonomous drone interceptor. Terma will supply its high-end sensor and situational awareness technologies to Odd Systems’ combat-proven drone platforms. The collaboration brings together the best of Western defense engineering with Ukrainian…
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AstroAccess and Blue Origin Partner to Advance Accessibility in Spaceflight
AstroAccess announces its collaboration with Blue Origin to make space exploration more accessible and inclusive for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people on New Shepard. Blue Origin invited AstroAccess to a two-day workshop focused on enhancing spaceflight accessibility and developing best practices for DHH astronauts last summer at Launch Site One. The Ambassadors provided expert consultation…
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SES Successfully Launches Ninth and Tenth O3b mPOWER Satellites
The latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:12 pm local time, SES announced. These two new satellites enhance global coverage and bring incremental capacity to scale up services provided by SES’s second-generation medium…
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Open Cosmos: Broadening Space Access with Smart Satellite Missions and Shared Constellations
Open Cosmos, Founded in 2015 and headquartered at the Harwell Space Campus in the UK, is transforming how Earth observation data is accessed and applied, offering end-to-end satellite mission services from design and build through to launch, operations and data delivery. With a firm focus on sustainability, its ESG principles guide efforts in reducing space…
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SEOPS Integrates EPIC Athena on Upcoming TRACERS Mission with SpaceX
SEOPS, a leading provider of responsive launch and space mission services, announced it is providing the capacity, mission management and integration services for EPIC Athena, a 110 kg pathfinder spacecraft funded by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Defense’s U.S. Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC). Also Read:…
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Gilat DataPath Secures $70 Million U.S Army Contract for Field and Technical Support
Gilat DataPath, a leading provider of advanced and secure communications solutions and technical support services, announced they have been awarded a contract to provide field and technical services in support of the U.S. Army through a prime contractor. The award includes a base program of more than $7 million with options to extend the program…
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DeepSat Selects Redwire’s AI-Powered Digital Engineering Systems for Precursor Mission
Redwire, a global leader in aerospace and defense technology solutions, announced that it has been awarded the first phase of a multi-phase contract by DeepSat, an Earth observation startup, to provide advanced modeling, simulation, and design services for a planned dual-use Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellite constellation. The contract represents DeepSat’s first step towards…