Tag: Ground
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Apex Achieves Historic Success with the Launch of First Production Unit of Flagship Aries Bus
Apex Space, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, announced the confirmed success of Aries SN1, their first production build of Apex’s productized ESPA-class satellite bus. After launching on SpaceX’s Falcon-9 on March 4, Apex’s vehicle is communicating bidirectionally with its ground stations and is healthy. Apex specializes in building productized satellite buses, starting with their…
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat Successfully Launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare Mission
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company announced its LizzieSat satellite has successfully launched and deployed to low Earth orbit as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission. Liftoff occurred at 2:05 p.m. PDT on 3 March 2024, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The successful deployment…
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Olsen Actuators and Drives to Showcase SuperNova Servo Drive at Space-Comm Expo 2024
Olsen Actuators and Drives, one of the leading manufacturers and providers of COTS, customized and bespoke space-certified motion control products will introduce its SuperNova servo drive at Space-Comm Expo 2024, to be held in Farnborough from 6-7 March. The event, which gathers space, aerospace, defense, downstream and upstream industries highlights the end-to-end supply chain for…
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Terran Orbital Awarded $15.2 Million US Space Force Contract to Supply Satellite Platforms
Terran Orbital Corporation, one of the global leaders in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced it was awarded a $15.2 million contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms complete with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL. The contract, managed through Axient Corporation, will integrate payloads…
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ICEYE Launches Three New SAR Satellites Strengthening its Earth Observation Capabilities
ICEYE, one of the global leaders in persistent monitoring and natural catastrophe solutions, successfully launched three additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites on March 4, 2024, including a 1200 MHz radar bandwidth in-orbit technology demonstrator that will enable 25 cm imaging. The satellites were integrated via launch integrator Exolaunch and successfully lifted off aboard SpaceX’s…
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BrainChip Enhances Space Heritage with Launch of Akida AI Tech into Low Earth Orbit
BrainChip Holdings, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI, saw its Akida AI technology launched into low earth orbit aboard the Optimus-1 spacecraft built by the Space Machines Company. The successful launch is another milestone for BrainChip’s innovative AI acceleration solution in the burgeoning SpaceTech industry, which needs advanced…
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Keysight Selected as Test Partner for Deutsche Telekom Satellite NB-IoT Early Adopter Program
Keysight Technologies has been selected as the Test Partner for the Deutsche Telekom Satellite NB-IoT Early Adopter Program, providing an end-to-end narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) non-terrestrial network (NTN) testbed to enable designers and developers to validate reference designs for solutions using 3GPP Release 17 (Rel-17) NTN standards. Led by Deutsche Telekom in collaboration with…
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NASA Signs Space Act Agreement with Nikon to Develop Camera for Artemis Lunar Mission
When NASA sends astronauts to the South Pole region of the Moon for the first time with its Artemis campaign, they will capture photos with a handheld camera to help advance scientific research and discovery for the benefit of all. NASA and Nikon recently signed a Space Act Agreement that outlines how they will work…
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Viasat Secures Contract from Northrop Grumman for USAF’s Space Internet Experiments
Viasat, a global company in satellite communications, has been awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program – better known by its nickname ‘Global Lightning.’ Northrop Grumman was awarded a four-year contract to test how…
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Unseenlabs Secures €85 Million in Funding to Advance Space-Based Maritime Surveillance
Unseenlabs, a France-based company and global leader in maritime surveillance through detection and geolocation of radio frequency signals from space, announced the closure of an exceptional fundraising round of €85 million. This operation, one of the largest in the space industry, confirms the global interest in Earth observation and marks a new milestone in Unseenlabs’…