Tag: Ground
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Viasat Secures $153M Contract to Support U.S. Army’s Blue Force Tracker Program
Viasat, Inc., one of the global leaders in satellite communications, announced it has received a five-year, $153 million dollar contract at full value potential from the Defense Information Services Agency to provide network services and support for the U.S. Army Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) Blue Force Tracker (BFT) program. The period of performance…
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NASA Releases Landing Criteria and Timeline for Boeing Starliner Mission
As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space Station to Earth, safety and mission success remain as top priorities for the teams. Mission managers will complete a series of operational and weather checks before the spacecraft undocks from the orbital complex. The Starliner spacecraft is the first…
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General Dynamics Wins $491.6M Contract from SDA for Tranche 2 Ground System Development
General Dynamics Missions Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced it was awarded a $491.6 million contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to perform design, analysis, engineering studies, and technical augmentation for their Ground Management and Integration (GMI) program’s integrated ground system. General Dynamics and teammate Iridium build upon the Tranche 1 (T1)…
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Viasat Launches Enhanced LAISR On-Demand Global L-Band Service for Air, Sea, and Land Users
Viasat Inc., a global company in satellite communications, introduced Enhanced LAISR, its global mobility, on-demand managed L-band service offering communications flexibility for airborne, maritime, and land users worldwide. It will deliver highly available, flexible, on-demand capabilities enabled by Viasat’s seamless, global L-band space and ground network. The award-winning L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LAISR)…
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SFL Chosen by NUVIEW to Develop Pathfinder Satellite Bus for LiDAR Constellation
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been chosen by NUVIEW, a space-technology company specializing in 3D Earth imaging, to develop the bus for Mr. SPoC, its pathfinder small satellite that will demonstrate the capabilities of the world’s first commercial space-based LiDAR constellation. Based in Orlando, Florida, NUVIEW is building a ground-breaking constellation of satellites that will…
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Benchmark Awarded $4.9M AFRL Contract to Scale Ascent-Fueled Thrusters For Government Missions
Benchmark Space Systems, the leading developer and integrator of in-space mobility solutions, announced it has won a critical two-year, $4.9 million Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) award to further develop its non-catalytic 22 Newton-to-100 Newton class propulsion systems to power government missions using high-performance ASCENT monopropellant. ASCENT (Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic) is a next-generation spacecraft…
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Sierra Space Shooting Star Cargo Module Completes Acoustic Testing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Sierra Space, a commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced the successful completion of acoustic testing on its Shooting Star cargo module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, moving the spacecraft a significant step closer to launch readiness. The test, the first of…
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Redwire Expands National Security Space Portfolio by Complete Acquisition of Hera Systems
Redwire Corporation, a leading company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Hera Systems, a spacecraft development company with expertise in specialized missions for national security space customers. The acquisition of Hera Systems expands Redwire’s spacecraft portfolio to support specialized national security space…
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Rocket Lab Schedules Second Launch for Kinéis IoT Constellation Deployment
Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it has set the launch window for its 53rd Electron Launch. The mission will be the second of five dedicated launches for the French company Kinéis, designed to provide global Internet of Things (IoT) accessibility worldwide. The ‘Kinéis Killed the RadIOT…
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Ovzon Secures Second U.S. Department of Defense Order for T7 Satellite Terminal
Ovzon has received a second order from the United States Department of Defense for the company’s most recent mobile satellite terminal, the Ovzon T7. The order value amounts to 0.4 MUSD. In February of this year, the United States Department of Defense (U.S. DOD) became the first customer to place an order for Ovzon T7,…