Tag: Ground
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Impulse and Space Network Services Signs GEO Rideshare Agreement at WSBW Paris
Impulse Space announced at the World Space Business Week conference in Paris, France, the signing of a GEO Rideshare agreement with Space Network Services, a French developer of small GEO satellites. Space Network Services’ GEO satellite, called Kaon, is a small and versatile telecommunication satellite designed for government and commercial customers that want to establish…
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Peraton Partners with Rivada Space Networks for Ultra-Secure LEO Communications in U.S
Peraton, a next-generation national security company and transformative enterprise IT provider, is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to offer a unique, ultra-secure low-earth orbit network capability to support mission-critical U.S. government communications around the globe. Based in the U.S., Peraton is already using first-generation LEO constellations; the company will now work with Rivada Space Networks…
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Planet Lab Signs Multi-Year Contract with the German Space Agency
Planet Labs Germany, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that they have signed a three year contract with the German Space Agency at German Aerospace Center ( DLR ). Through this multi-year contract, Planet will provide a series of Earth observation data products and services to the German Space Agency at…
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RTX’s Raytheon and Northrop Grumman Completes the Static Fire Test of Solid Rocket Motor
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman have successfully completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia. The test demonstrated wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications and provided data to support digital modeling and simulations that validated the design maturity and…
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Momentus Collaborates with Lodestar Space for Robotics in Space
Momentus, a provider of satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services including in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and other in-orbit services, have announced that the company has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with Lodestar Space to integrate a robotic arm onto a Momentus Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV). Momentus will work with Lodestar Space to define the…
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NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge Concludes with Final Innovations for Lunar Power Solutions
NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. “For astronauts to maintain…
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SES Secures NATO Contract for High-Performance Satellite Services via MEO Constellation
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has awarded SES a contract to deliver secure high-performance low-latency satellite services via its medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, enabling global missions for NATO member government organizations, agencies, and the military. The MEO Global Services (MGS) award represents a three-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at USD 200M, with two…
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AST SpaceMobile Successfully Launches First Five Commercial Satellites into Orbit
AST SpaceMobile, Inc., the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones designed for both commercial and government use, announced the successful launch of its first five commercial satellites, called BlueBirds. On September 12th at 4:52 am EDT, the BlueBird 1-5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
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ispace Announces Mission 2 Launch with RESILIENCE Lunar Lander and TENACIOUS Rover
To mark Japan’s national Space Day, ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, announced that its Mission 2, featuring the RESILIENCE lunar lander and TENACIOUS micro rover, is now planned to launch no earlier than December 2024. The press conference held at the Tsukuba Research Support Center in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan, ispace released multiple…
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Polaris Dawn Crew Completes First Commercial Spacewalk in Newly-Designed SpaceX EVA Suits
The Polaris Dawn crew, after launching into space earlier this week, completed the first commercial spacewalk at 7:58 am EDT today. Wearing newly designed SpaceX extravehicular activity (EVA) suits, the crew began their approximately two-hour operation at 5:12 a.m. EDT while traveling at 17,500 miles per hour in an elliptical orbit of 190 x 700…