Tag: Ground
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Arkisys’ Applique Technology Achieves Flight Heritage on Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced in conjunction with Arkisys, the successful completion of a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract deliverable and the achievement of flight heritage status for Arkisys Applique aboard LizzieSat-1. Arkisys is a creator of spacecraft architectures and platform solutions that open up in-space services. Arkisys integrated their…
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MDA Space Secures Contract for Square Kilometre Array Project
MDA Space, a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to support the development, construction and integration of game-changing radio telescope technology for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), an international space exploration and astronomy project…
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RapidFlight Secures USAF AFWERX Contract for Autonomous Aircraft System Development
RapidFlight, a pioneering integrated designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has been awarded a contract valued up to $10 million by the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) AFWERX Autonomy Prime program to develop and produce a customizable, autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft system, the SPX. The DAF created AFWERX to bring cutting-edge…
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Scout Space’s Optical Payload System Successfully Captures First In-Space Image
Scout Space, one of the leading in-space observation service providers focused on space security and comprehensive Space Domain Awareness (SDA), announced its optical payload dubbed “Sparrow,” launched aboard the Apex Aries bus on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission in March 2024, has successfully completed commissioning and captured its first in-space calibration image. This achievement represents the…
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SES Launches Open Orbits Inflight Connectivity Network with Satellite Network Operators
SES announced that it has reached agreements-in-principle with several regional satellite network operators to launch the SES Open Orbits Inflight Connectivity (IFC) Network to enable seamless connectivity services to airlines around the world. This fully interoperable Ka-band platform will combine the geostationary earth orbit (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite networks of SES; NEO…
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Ursa Major Successfully Conducts Hotfire Test of its Draper Engine
Ursa Major announced the successful March hot fire of its Draper engine at the company’s headquarters in Berthoud, Colorado – a huge milestone for the liquid engine. The development of Draper was announced in May 2023, and with an ambitious goal of hot firing Draper within 12 months, the engine is well ahead of schedule,…
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HawkEye 360 Opens New Vibration Testing Facility for Testing its Satellite Clusters
HawkEye 360, one of the leading providers of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, is excited to announce the opening of a new Vibration Testing Facility within its 19,000-square-foot advanced R&D, engineering, and manufacturing facility. This new capability will be essential for vibration testing of satellite clusters, ensuring they meet the highest durability and…
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LEOcloud to Demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service Onboard the ISS
The Center for Advancement of Science in Space, who manages the International Space Station National Laboratory (through a cooperative agreement with NASA), has awarded LEOcloud a technology advancement and commercialization project to demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering onboard the orbiting outpost. LEOcloud’s “Cloud ENIAC” project scope includes the deployment and…
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INNOSPACE to Launch Brazilian Satellites and Inertial System on HANBIT-Nano Launch Vehicle
INNOSPACE, a South Korean private spaceflight startup producing small satellite launch vehicles, announced that it has signed new launch service agreements with the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) and Castro Leite Consultoria LTDA (CLC) for a rideshare launch mission on its ‘HANBIT-Nano’ launch vehicle from the Alcântara Space Center in Brazil, scheduled for the first…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1 Successfully Transmits Data to Earth Using AI Delivery Platform
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced that its high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) delivery platform, FeatherEdge successfully transmitted data back down to Earth for the first time on May 24, 2024. The LizzieSat-1 mission demonstrated FeatherEdge’s ability to upload new algorithms post-launch, run a machine vision algorithm on the hardware accelerator capable…