Tag: Launch
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EnduroSat Secures €43 Million to Accelerate Endurance Gen3 Satellite Production
EnduroSat announces the closure of a €43 million investment round led by Founders Fund. This significant funding round also included participation from CEECAT Capital, Morphosis Capital and other returning investors, highlighting the strong confidence in EnduroSat’s vision and capabilities. The substantial investment will be directed towards scaling the production of EnduroSat’s new Endurance ESPA-class satellites,…
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Intelsat Expands Satellite Connectivity with Solomon Telekom Company Limited
Intelsat, operator of one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks, and Solomon Telekom Company Limited (STCL) are delivering improved cellular connectivity throughout dozens of sites in the remote Solomon Islands thanks to a broadened managed-services collaboration using Intelsat’s high-throughput satellite, Horizons 3e (H-3e). Additionally, STCL has appointed Intelsat to support the management…
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Northrop Grumman Invests $50M in Firefly Aerospace to Accelerate Eclipse Launch Vehicle
Northrop Grumman Corporation has invested $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to further advance production of their co-developed medium launch vehicle, now known as Eclipse. The companies continue to make progress in the development of Eclipse flight hardware, with qualification testing underway and more than 60 Miranda engine hot fire tests performed to date. “Firefly is incredibly…
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China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country’s mountainous interior. Liftoff aboard a Long March 3B rocket at 1:31 pm EDT (17:31 UTC) from the Xichang launch base kicked off the second mission in a series of…
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Apex Introduces Comet Satellite Bus to Advance Power and Cost Efficiency for Constellations
Apex, the world’s first spacecraft manufacturer to offer productized, high-rate configurable satellite bus platforms, announced Comet, the largest satellite bus in its product line. Comet, with a unique flat design, meets the needs of commercial customers launching high-power LEO missions, including Direct-to-Device constellations, as well as government customers requiring large aperture payloads. Comet delivers more…
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Momentus to Host Portal Space’s Inaugural On-orbit Demonstration Mission
Momentus, a leading U.S. commercial space firm specializing in satellite solutions, in-space transportation, and orbital infrastructure, has signed a contract with Portal Space Systems to provide hosted payload services for the company’s first on-orbit demonstration of its advanced flight computer technology. Momentus is committed to supporting the development and testing of next-generation space technology. Portal…
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Sierra Space Secures NASA Contract to Advance Lunar Logistics
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth, announced it has won a significant contract from NASA to study the use of Sierra Space’s expandable space station technology on the moon. The purpose of this contract will be…
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Rocket Lab Enters Payload Market with Agreement to Acquire Geost
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the parent holding company of Geost, a Tucson, Arizona-based electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) payload development and manufacturing company and provider to high-priority national security satellites, from Lightridge Solutions, a portfolio company of ATL Partners,…
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Extend Networks and StarWin Partners to Revolutionize Global Satellite Communications
Extend Networks, a pioneer in next-generation connectivity infrastructure and digital services, and China StarWin Science & Technology, a global leader in advanced satellite electronically steering antenna (ESA) technology, announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming the global connectivity landscape. This collaboration will fast-track the development and commercialization of high-performance, low-latency satellite services delivering seamless, high-availability…
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SpaceX may have solved one problem only to find more on latest Starship flight
SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming technical problems that plagued the program’s two previous launches. But minutes into the mission, SpaceX’s Starship lost control as it cruised through space, then tumbled back into the atmosphere somewhere over the Indian Ocean nearly an hour after…