Tag: Ground
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Teledyne e2v Space Imaging Celebrates the Success of its Sensors as ESA Decommissions Aeolus
Teledyne e2v Space Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies, is proud to have designed and built sensors for Aeolus, the first ESA satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth’s wind on a global scale. Named after the Greek god of the winds, Aeolus is the fifth satellite in the Living Planet Programme of the European Space…
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L3Harris Awarded Contract by U.S. Space Force to Support Detection and Tracking of Missiles
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command, through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicle, awarded L3Harris Technologies approximately $29 million for a sensor payload design contract to deliver a digital model for the medium Earth orbit (MEO) – Missile Track Custody (MTC) Epoch 1 program that will support detecting and tracking…
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TRL11 Showcases Space Video Recorder and Cubesat Deployer on SpaceX Transporter-8 Mission
TRL11, one of the leading providers of video solutions for the space industry, has successfully validated several of its core technologies on a demonstration mission in Low Earth Orbit, despite the host spacecraft developing an anomaly shortly after deployment. All three products in TRL11’s demo mission operated nominally for the duration of Vast’s Orbiter SN03…
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Beyond Gravity’s Cutting-Edge On Board Computer Controls the Euclid Space Telescope
Beyond Gravity, one of the leading suppliers to the space industry provided key products for Europe’s Euclid space telescope. The space observatory is controlled by a computer and protected by thermal insulation from Beyond Gravity. The Euclid telescope which launched on July 1 aboard a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA is a…
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SpaceTech Introduces New Thermo-Optical Coarse Earth and Sun Sensor for Satellites
SpaceTech, a company that designs, develops, and manufactures reliable, innovative, high quality, and cost-effective space equipment and subsystems for space missions – from Earth observation, navigation, and science to new space mega-constellations has introduced a new Coarse Earth and Sun Sensor (CESS) for satellites. The CESS is a passive device that can provide instantaneous attitude information,…
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Quectel Unveils New CC660D-LS Module with Satellite and IoT-NTN Capabilities
Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, unveiled its latest innovation in satellite communications, the CC660D-LS module, designed specifically to ensure comprehensive global coverage for seamless connectivity. The CC660D-LS module offers versatile connectivity options, including L-band, S-band, and Band 23 connections. In addition, the module supports 3GPP Release 17 IoT non-terrestrial network (IoT-NTN) connections.…
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EchoStar Selected by Seven European IoT Solution Providers for Real-Time Satellite IoT Connectivity
EchoStar Corporation announced that seven leading European Internet of Things (IoT) service providers have signed multi-year commercial agreements to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile’s Pan-European, satellite-based, LoRa-enabled IoT network. The customers, API-K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys, and Symes are leveraging the real-time network to enable massive IoT deployments for applications such…
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Virgin Galactic Successfully Completes ‘Galactic 01′ Inaugural Commercial Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic Holdings, announced the completion of its inaugural commercial spaceflight, ‘Galactic 01,’ which carried 13 research payloads and three crew members from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy to conduct scientific experiments in a microgravity environment. Mission Objectives Conducted 13 human-tended and autonomous experiments to examine the biomedical field, thermo-fluid…
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ESA’s Euclid Mission Lifts off to Explore the Cosmic Mystery of Dark Universe
ESA’s Euclid spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023. The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious mission to uncover the nature of two mysterious components of our Universe: dark matter and dark energy, and to…
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Redwire Provides Critical Hardware for ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Mission
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it provided critical hardware which launched onboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope mission, which will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the universe ever produced. Redwire’s wholly owned Belgian subsidiary, Redwire Space NV,…