Tag: Ground
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NASA Announces Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage
NASA will roll the fully assembled core stage for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the first crewed Artemis mission out of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in mid-July. The 212-foot-tall stage will be loaded on the agency’s Pegasus barge for delivery to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media…
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Virgin Galactic Successfully Completes 12th Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic Holdings announced the completion of its second spaceflight of 2024 and 12th mission to date, carrying one researcher and three private astronauts. The ‘Galactic 07’ flight marks the Company’s seventh research mission with Virgin Galactic’s spaceship again serving as a suborbital lab for space-based scientific research. Onboard ‘Galactic 07’: Astronaut 027 – Tuva…
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Rivada Space Networks Commits to a Safe Space Environment by Signing Zero Debris Charter
Together with more than 40 companies, research centers and international organizations, Rivada Space Networks signed the Zero Debris Charter at the Berlin International Airshow (ILA). The Zero Debris Charter, unveiled at the ESA Space Summit in Seville in November 2023, is a world-leading initiative with the goal of making space missions debris neutral by 2030.…
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Rocket Lab Set to Launch Five IoT Satellites for Kinéis on 50th Electron Mission
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for the Company’s 50th Electron launch. The mission will deploy five Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellites for French company Kinéis. The ‘No Time Toulouse’ mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a…
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Vast and ESA Sign MoU to Collaborate on Future Vast Space Stations
During ILA Berlin, ESA and Vast signed a Memorandum of Understanding for future Vast space stations. The agreement outlines the parties’ intention to foster human spaceflight, science, technology, and commercialization development and explore collaboration in low-earth orbit destinations other than the International Space Station. The collaboration will initially focus on exploring opportunities for access to…
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Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Docks with the International Space Station
NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams successfully docked Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), about 26 hours after launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The astronauts monitored Starliner as it autonomously conducted a series of maneuvers to steadily bring the spacecraft closer to the orbiting laboratory before docking.…
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RTX Supplies Blue Canyon Satellites for NASA PREFIRE Polar Climate Mission
RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission will measure the amount of heat Earth emits into space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Blue Canyon provided two heritage 6U CubeSats…
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SpaceX Starship Achieves Key Milestones with Fourth Successful Flight Test
SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test launched with ambitious goals, attempting to go farther than any previous test before and begin demonstrating capabilities central to the return and reuse of Starship and Super Heavy. The payload for this test was the data. On June 6, 2024, Starship successfully lifted off at 7:50 a.m. CT from Starbase…
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Planet’s First Hyperspectral Satellite Set for Launch on SpaceX Transporter-11 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, one of the leading providers of daily Earth data and insights, announced that its first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1—made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition and its philanthropic partners—is ready for launch. The spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 3rd in preparation for liftoff as early as July on board…
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SES Space & Defense Successfully Demonstrates Commercial LEO Space Data Relay Services
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has announced the successful demonstration of the first multi-orbit, multi-band commercial space relay service in support of the NASA Communications Services Project (CSP). To demonstrate data relay services, SES Space & Defense partnered with Planet Labs, one of the leading providers of global daily Earth data…