Tag: Ground
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Airbus Ventures Announces Its Latest Investment in Helicity Space
Airbus Ventures proudly announced its investment in Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power. Helicity Space announced its $5 million seed round, with funding from several new investors including Airbus Ventures, TRE Advisors, Voyager Space Holdings, E2MC Space, Urania Ventures and Gaingels. “We are pleased to…
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NASA’s Laser Reflecting Instruments to Enhance Precision in Earth Measurements
The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute information to other Earth-viewing satellites to help them pinpoint measurements of our planet. NASA and several other federal agencies,…
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ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion Module Moved to Earth’s Orbit from Lunar Orbit
In another unique experiment, like the hop experiment on the Vikram Lander, the Propulsion Module (PM) of Chandrayaan-3 was moved from an orbit around the Moon to an orbit around Earth. The primary objective of the ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission was to demonstrate a soft landing near to lunar south polar region and perform experiments using…
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Eutelsat OneWeb Partners with Imperial College London for Space Weather Monitoring Research
Eutelsat OneWeb, part of Eutelsat Group, the world’s first GEO-LEO satellite operator, has collaborated with Imperial College London to explore harnessing the power of its LEO satellite constellation to enable global space weather monitoring to help protect satellite operations as well as power, communications, navigation and transport systems. The changing conditions in near-Earth space, known…
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Space Machines Uses Siemens Xcelerator Software to Design its Orbital Servicing Vehicle
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Space Machines Company (SMC), an Australian space on-orbit services and logistics startup, has used the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to design and build the Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle. One of the largest commercial spacecraft being designed, manufactured, and assembled in Australia, is in development at the University…
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Airbus Awarded €109.3 Million Contract for Advancement of ESA’s TRUTHS Mission
Airbus has been awarded the latest phase in the European Space Agency (ESA) TRUTHS mission as part of ESA’s Earth Observation Earth Watch program. The contract covers a detailed definition of the mission and payload and focuses on payload development and de-risking activities with an option for the procurement of long lead time hardware ahead…
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Thales Alenia Space Inks Multi-Satellite Deal with PT Len Industri for Optical Imagery
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a multi-mission contract with PT Len Industri to provide a state-of-the-art Earth observation constellation combining both radar and optical sensors and dedicated to the Indonesian Ministry of Defence (MoD). Both companies will join forces to deploy an end-to-end system including space and…
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CisLunar Industries Awarded DARPA LunA-10 Contract for Lunar Infrastructure Integration
CisLunar Industries has been awarded a contract with DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the LunA-10 (The 10-Year Lunar Architecture) capability study to advance critical technology efforts in lunar infrastructure development. CisLunar Industries will facilitate the development of the METAL framework (Material Extraction, Treatment, Assembly & Logistics), in collaboration with 13 other visionary…
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Firefly Aerospace to Develop On-Orbit Spacecraft Hubs Framework for DARPA’s LunA-10
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it was selected to develop an analytical framework for aggregated on-orbit spacecraft hubs in support of DARPA’s 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study. Based on the capabilities of Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicles, the spacecraft hubs would provide responsive tasking for a wide range of cislunar services, such…
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NRO Awards Contract to Muon Space for Commercial Electro-Optical Capabilities
Muon Space, a LEO satellite constellation company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, has been awarded a contract by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to provide commercial electro-optical (EO) capabilities at both the sensor and constellation level for assessment and potential contribution to the NRO mission. This award falls under the NRO Strategic…