Tag: Ground
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Mitsubishi Electric Developed Smart Lander Achieves Historic Lunar Landing
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), developed by the company under contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, successfully landed on the lunar surface at 00:20 a.m. on January 20 (Japan Standard Time). This is Japan’s first lunar landing, making it the fifth country to safely land a spacecraft…
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Innoflight Delivers Engineering Units to L3Harris for SDA’s T1 Tracking Layer Program
SDA awarded a prototype agreement to L3Harris Technologies last year to provide initial missile warning/missile tracking warfighting capability of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). Innoflight is on contract with L3Harris for the delivery of key avionics, including mesh network encryption/decryption, networking, processing, and precision timing for the SDA T1 Tracking Layer program. Innoflight’s deliverables…
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NASA Reveals Latest Results of Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review
NASA released the outcomes of its 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review, the agency’s process to build a roadmap for exploration of the solar system for the benefit of humanity. The Moon to Mars architecture approach incorporates feedback from U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and the NASA workforce. The 2023 Architecture Concept Review refined…
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Booz Allen Makes Strategic Investment in Albedo to Develop VLEO Satellite Constellation
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Albedo, the first company to operate satellites in very low earth orbit (VLEO), which enables them to offer ultra-high resolution commercial imagery from space. This investment supports Albedo’s operational constellation deployment and is aligned with Booz…
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Voyager Space Appoints Marshall Smith as Chief Technology Officer
Voyager Space, one of the global leaders in space exploration, announced the appointment of Marshall Smith as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and as a member of Starlab Space’s Board of Directors. Smith, who previously served as Voyager Space’s Vice President of Exploration, will lead the technical strategy for Voyager’s enterprise and guide the…
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Japan’s First Moon Lander Equipped with Rad-Hard ICs from Renesas Touches Down
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that its radiation-hardened ICs were onboard the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft that successfully touched down on the Moon’s low latitude area on January 20, Japan Standard Time. Operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, SLIM launched onboard an H-IIA rocket from…
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NASA Announces Media Invitation for First Intuitive Machines and SpaceX Moon Launch
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all. The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander carrying NASA science and commercial…
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Axiom Space Commemorates Ax-3 Crew’s Arrival at the International Space Station
Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), the first all-European commercial astronaut mission to the International Space Station, reached its destination and will begin its planned 14-day mission on the orbiting laboratory. After seamlessly docking to the ISS, the Ax-3 crewmembers, Commander Michael López-Alegría of the U.S. and Spain, Pilot Walter Villadei of the Italian Air…
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Blue Origin Selects Redwire as Key Supplier for Blue Ring Space Mobility Platform
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy, announced that it has been awarded a contract to develop and deliver four Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings, along with multiple Argus cameras and Low Voltage Distribution Units (LVDUs) for Blue Origin’s multi-orbit space mobility platform, Blue Ring. The ROSA wings…
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Sierra Space Progresses with its Revolutionary Commercial Space Station Technology
Sierra Space, one of the leading commercial space companies building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully designing, manufacturing, assembling, and testing its first full-scale, expandable space station structure, alongside exclusive softgoods technology partner ILC Dover. By the Numbers: Company’s first stress test of a full-size,…