Tag: Ground
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ISRO Successfully Launches India’s Third Moon Expedition Chandrayaan-3
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, and a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2. Chandrayaan-3 was launched onboard a Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3) rocket, ISRO’s heavy-lift launch vehicle from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 14. Chandrayaan-3, which was…
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NASA Sets Briefings for Upcoming Crew Mission to the International Space Station
NASA will host a pair of news conferences on July 25, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotations missions to the International Space Station. The briefings will cover NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the space station, currently targeted to launch Tuesday, Aug. 15, for a science mission aboard the…
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HawkEye 360 Receives $58 Million Funding to Develop New Space Systems
HawkEye 360, the top defense technology company specializing in space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analysis, revealed that it has successfully secured $58 million in new funding. The investment will be utilized to advance space systems and enhance analytics capabilities in order to support crucial defense missions. The Series D-1 funding round was spearheaded by…
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NASA to Send Swarm of Satellites to Low Earth Orbit as Part of the Starling Mission
This July, NASA is sending a team of four six-unit (6U)-sized CubeSats into orbit around Earth to see if they’re able to cooperate on their own, without real-time updates from mission control. While that kind of autonomous cooperation may not sound too difficult for humans, this team will be robotic – composed of small satellites…
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Rocket Lab Signs Multi-Launch Deal with Synspective to Deploy its Satellite Constellation
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a deal with Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective to launch two dedicated Electron missions. The new missions bring the total number of Electron launches contracted by Synspective to six. Rocket Lab has been launching for Synspective since 2020 when…
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Millennium Space Systems Completes Design Review of Missile Track Custody Program
Millennium Space Systems completed the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Missile Track Custody Program Design Review in just four months, ensuring the program is on schedule for Critical Design Review in the fourth quarter. SSC’s MTC Program underscores Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration Frank Calvelli’s move toward smaller, proliferated,…
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ViaSat-3 Americas Satellite Faces Reflector Deployment Issues
Viasat, one of the global leaders in satellite communications, disclosed that an unexpected event occurred during reflector deployment that may materially impact the performance of the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite. Viasat and its reflector provider are conducting a rigorous review of the development and deployment of the affected reflector to determine its impact and potential remedial…
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Phase Four Selected by AFWERX to Develop Critical Technology for Electric Propulsion
Phase Four announced that it has been selected by AFWERX for a Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) contract in the amount of $4.26M focused on developing a Propellant Decomposition Chamber for propellant-agnostic electric propulsion to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have…
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NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne Begin Testing on Cutting-Edge Solar Electric Propulsion Thrusters
Engineers from NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne are beginning qualification testing on the cutting-edge solar electric propulsion (SEP) thrusters that will change the in-space propulsion game. The culmination of this work will see these innovative thrusters fly on Gateway beginning in 2025, making it the most powerful SEP spacecraft ever flown. Gateway is a lunar space…
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Thales Alenia Space Selected to Implement WEkEO 2.0 Infrastructure for Eumetsat and Partners
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced the signature of the Provision of Copernicus WEkEO 2.0 Services and Operations contract with the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), representing the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International (MOI) and the European Environment Agency…