Tag: Launch
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L3Harris Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Captures First GOES-19 Image
L3Harris Technologies Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard NOAA’s newest weather satellite captured its first image since launching into space in late June, representing a significant milestone prior to reaching full operational status. The new, full disk GeoColor image was captured Aug. 30, 2024. The ABI is the primary instrument for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-19…
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NASA selects Intuitive Machines for lunar communications and Near Space Network Services
NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This Subcategory 2.2 GEO to Cislunar Relay Services is a new firm-fixed-price, multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task order contract. The…
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Ursa Major and U.S. Navy Collaborate on $25M Investment for New Solid Rocket Motor Prototype
Ursa Major, the United States’ privately funded rocket propulsion company, will receive funding from the Department of Defense (DoD) as one of the inaugural recipients of investments from the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) to strengthen critical supply chain technologies needed for national security. The $12.5 million investment represents a partnership between OSC and the…
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York Space Systems Achieves Optical and Link 16 Communications for SDA’s Tranche 0 Satellites
York Space Systems (York), the Denver-based aerospace company dedicated to the rapid deployment of complete space mission solutions, announced its Tranche 0 satellites, part of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) successfully established optical communications in orbit. This successful demonstration makes York the second SDA provider to achieve this major milestone…
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NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapping Instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO Program
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 million. It includes the development of two flight instruments as well as…
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Sierra Space Introduces Technology for Oxygen Extraction from Lunar Soil
Sierra Space, a commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced the company’s proprietary Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, heralding the first time in history that oxygen has been extracted from simulated lunar…
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Apex Announces its New ESPA-Grande Class Nova Satellite Bus
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft bus platform manufacturing company, announced Nova, its ESPA-Grande class satellite bus platform supporting payloads ranging from 200 to 500 kg. Nova deliveries will begin in Q3 2025 and are focused on meeting the needs of operational proliferated LEO missions, including the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) architecture and…
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Impulse and Space Network Services Signs GEO Rideshare Agreement at WSBW Paris
Impulse Space announced at the World Space Business Week conference in Paris, France, the signing of a GEO Rideshare agreement with Space Network Services, a French developer of small GEO satellites. Space Network Services’ GEO satellite, called Kaon, is a small and versatile telecommunication satellite designed for government and commercial customers that want to establish…
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Planet Lab Signs Multi-Year Contract with the German Space Agency
Planet Labs Germany, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that they have signed a three year contract with the German Space Agency at German Aerospace Center ( DLR ). Through this multi-year contract, Planet will provide a series of Earth observation data products and services to the German Space Agency at…
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RTX’s Raytheon and Northrop Grumman Completes the Static Fire Test of Solid Rocket Motor
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman have successfully completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia. The test demonstrated wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications and provided data to support digital modeling and simulations that validated the design maturity and…