Tag: Ground
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Argotec’s Innovative and Sustainable Solutions Extend their Horizons to Space
Argotec is a space company that builds the most innovative, sustainable, and reliable solutions for space missions. They enable companies to extend their horizons to Space. Their vision is to empower everyone to live beyond our Planet and make Space their place. Their activities range from design engineering to space mission support operations, to astronaut…
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Intelsat Orders Second Mission Extension Pod from Northrop Grumman to Extend Life of Four Satellites
Intelsat, operator of one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and leading provider of inflight connectivity (IFC), ordered its second Mission Extension Pod (MEP) from Northrop Grumman Corporation’s SpaceLogistics, which will add life to an Intelsat satellite, providing uninterrupted services to many customers. The new contract represents the fourth deal with SpaceLogistics,…
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Spacemanic Introduces New Globalstar Transmitter for Nano Satellites
Spacemanic, a small satellite mission integrator, focused on delivering flight-proven innovative, and reliable nanosatellite solutions, platforms, components, and services has introduced a new transmitter module for nanosatellites. The Globalstar transmitter (Globe-TX) from Spacemanic is a transmitter module that is designed for small-packet data transfer from nano-satellites to Earth over the Globalstar satellite network. It is…
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BepiColombo Mission Gears Up for Third Mercury Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its next close flyby of Mercury when it will pass the planet’s surface at an altitude of about 236 km. This is the third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury that ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through. The flybys, together with more than 15…
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CesiumAstro Awarded a Contract by U.S. Air Force to Demonstrate SATCOM Terminal on MQ-9A Aircraft
CesiumAstro, an industry leader in active phased array communications technology for space and airborne systems, announced that it has been awarded a contract led by AFWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Air Force (USAF), through the Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) program. CesiumAstro will build, integrate, and demonstrate its satellite communications (SATCOM) terminal aboard an…
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Comtech and E-Space Collaborate to Develop Space-Powered Communications Solutions and IoT Services
Comtech and E-Space, the company bridging Earth and space to enable hyper-scaled deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services, announced a teaming agreement to collaborate, develop and deploy innovative space-based communications solutions and IoT services to support predominantly government and targeted commercial customers. The collaboration will leverage Comtech’s vast portfolio of innovative technologies…
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Busek Introduces New Hall Effect Thruster for GEO Satellites
Busek, a company that is engaged in applied research, hardware development, and specialty manufacturing in space propulsion emphasizing electric propulsion, power electronics, and material science has introduced a new Hall Effect thruster for geostationary orbit satellites. Busek’s BHT-1500 is a 2kW-class Hall Effect thruster with an innovative center-mounted cathode. Using novel design features like a…
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X-Bow Systems Announces the Second Successful Launch of “Bolt” Rocket
X-Bow Systems confirmed the successful second launch of its Bolt Rocket at White Sands Missile Range. This effort was done under the Responsive Development Experiment (ReDX) program for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The ReDX program enables LANL to leverage the revolution in commercial space flight and provide scientists and engineers…
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Virgin Galactic Announces Start of Commercial Spaceflight Operations
Virgin Galactic Holdings, announced the start of commercial spaceline operations. The first commercial spaceflight, ‘Galactic 01,’ is planned to fly between June 27 – June 30, 2023. The second commercial spaceflight, ‘Galactic 02,’ will follow in early August 2023, with monthly spaceflights expected thereafter. Virgin Galactic’s team and vehicles are ready to fly the Company’s…
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Muon Space’s First Climate Constellation Satellite Successfully Launched on SpaceX Transporter-8 Mission
Muon Space, a climate satellite company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, has announced the successful deployment of the company’s first satellite, MuSat-1. The ESPA-class spacecraft, which launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Calif. on June 12, is Muon Space’s first satellite in orbit and an important step…