Tag: Ground
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Europe’s Meteosat 3rd-Gen Most Advanced Weather Satellite Became Fully Operational
EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites became fully operational. MTG-Imager 1 also receives a new name, Meteosat-12, to mark the occasion. The two main instruments on board Meteosat-12, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), play a crucial role in enabling meteorological services to help protect lives and livelihoods by providing high-resolution,…
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Intuitive Machines Partners with Johns Hopkins APL for Lunar Communications and Navigation
Intuitive Machines, a leading space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, has announced it has entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to advance safe, secure, and reliable lunar communications and navigation infrastructure in cislunar space. Cislunar space encompasses the region of space that extends from Earth’s gravitational influence…
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Sierra Space Signs Multiple Agreements to Advance Manufacturing in Microgravity
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced two new agreements to further the advancement of manufacturing in the microgravity environments of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Under new Memoranda of Understanding (MOU), Sierra Space will collaborate with both California-based…
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CesiumAstro and Axiom Space Collaborates to Develop Advanced Spacesuit Technology
CesiumAstro, a company in advanced space connectivity solutions, has teamed up with Axiom Space to develop key systems for their next-generation lunar spacesuit. This collaboration will equip astronauts with essential capabilities for upcoming Moon missions. CesiumAstro to provide critical communications and computing systems for Axiom Space’s Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) lunar spacesuit. Located in…
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Orbit Communication Secures Israeli Defense Contract for Multi-Purpose SATCOM Terminals
Orbit Communication Systems Ltd., a global provider of maritime and airborne SATCOM terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems has announced that it has won a tender from the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply Multi-Purpose satellite communication Terminals (MPTs) for mobile and stationary ground platforms, valued at approximately $9.1 million.…
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Maxar Secures $290 Million NGA Contract for Advanced Geospatial Intelligence
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence, announced that it has been selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide advanced geospatial insights and automated object detections through NGA’s Luno A, a $290 million, five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. Under this contract, Maxar will leverage its highly refined computer vision…
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BAE Systems Completes Environmental Testing for NASA’s Pioneering SPHEREx Observatory Mission
BAE Systems has completed environmental testing of NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) Observatory. This mission will conduct all-sky spectral surveys for the first time and provide scientists with new insights into the formation of the universe and the galaxies that inhabit it. Over the course…
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NASA to Broadcast its 31st SpaceX Resupply Mission Station Departure
NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 5, for its return to Earth. NASA’s live coverage of undocking and departure begins at 10:50 a.m. EST on NASA+. The Dragon spacecraft will undock from the forward port…
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CesiumAstro Extends NASA Contract to Advance Starling Mission with CommPack Payload
CesiumAstro, a company in advanced space communications solutions, has secured a contract extension with NASA for its revolutionary Starling mission. This extension builds upon the resounding success of CesiumAstro’s custom-developed CommPack cross-link communications payload, which achieved the coveted Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL 9) status in late 2023, marking its full operational capability in the…
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ESA’s Proba-3 Mission Prepares for Launch with SPACEBEL’s Vital Role on December
The much-awaited departure into Space of ESA‘s Proba-3 pair of satellites on a PSLV-XL launcher from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, near Chennai, India, is planned for December 4th, 2024. This ambitious ESA mission has required many years of hard work given its aim to achieve something in Space that was previously considered impossible. SPACEBEL…