Tag: Launch
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BlackSky Secures Seven-figure Contract for Advanced Space Domain Awareness Solutions
BlackSky Technology Inc. won a seven-figure contract to deliver non-Earth Imaging (NEI) services to support the customer’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities. As part of the contract BlackSky will integrate Gen-2 satellite imagery of on-orbit spacecraft into the customer’s collection of SDA assets. “BlackSky’s expansion into SDA unlocks additional value from our current high-resolution Gen-2…
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Thaicom to Launch the Next-Gen THAICOM-10 Satellite on SpaceX’s Falcon 9
Thaicom Public Company Limited, an Asian satellite and space tech company, has announced that its subsidiary, Space Tech Innovation Limited (STI), has signed an agreement with SpaceX, a US company that designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft, for the launch of THAICOM-10, Thaicom’s upcoming, next generation software-defined, high throughput satellite…
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SpaceX’s next Starship launch—and first catch—could happen this weekend
We may not have to wait as long as we thought for the next test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket. The world’s most powerful launcher could fly again as soon as Sunday, SpaceX says, assuming the Federal Aviation Administration grants approval. The last public statement released from the FAA suggested the agency didn’t expect to…
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PLD Space Announces Strategic Plan to Target MIURA 5 Launch by 2025
Spain’s PLD Space unveiled its strategic plan at the Beyond event, held at its new headquarters to mark the first anniversary of the successful MIURA 1 launch. The company showcased significant progress in the MIURA 5 program, confirming that it is on course to achieve key milestones and begin its launch campaign by the end of…
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Millennium Space Systems Completes PDR for FOO Fighter Satellite Constellation
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company, completed the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter, or FOO Fighter, preliminary design review, or PDR, four months following authorization to proceed. The company is on contract to deliver a constellation of eight satellites with a ground system and to perform mission operations. “Just like the name says, our focus is…
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Beyond Gravity’s Technology Supports the Europe’s Hera Mission for Planetary Defense
Beyond Gravity, a supplier to the space industry, provided key products for Europe’s first-ever planetary defense mission, Hera. The company provided the solar wings of the spacecraft, its central tube (backbone) and electronic products. The European Space Agency’s Hera planetary defense mission is expected to launch between 7 and 27 October 2024 from Cape Canaveral…
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SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission ahead of Hurricane Milton
Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could one day prove useful to deflect an object off a collision course with Earth. The European Space Agency launched a follow-up mission Monday to go back to the crash site and see the…
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NASA Awards Study Contract to Rocket Lab to Bring Rock Samples from Mars to Earth
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced the company has been selected by NASA to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from the Martian surface and bringing them to Earth for the first time. The mission would fulfill some of the highest priority solar system exploration goals for…
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ESA’s Hera Mission Launches to Study Human-Deflected Asteroid Advancing Planetary Defense
ESA’s first planetary defense spacecraft has departed planet Earth. The Hera mission is headed to a unique target among the more than 1.3 million known asteroids in our Solar System the only body to have had its orbit shifted by human action to solve lingering mysteries associated with its deflection. By sharpening scientific understanding of…
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Impulse Space Secures $34.5M Contract from SSC for VICTUS SURGO and VICTUS SALO Missions
Impulse Space, a company in the development of in-space transportation services, announced it has been awarded a $34.5 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract by the United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Space Safari Office, in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The contract is in support of…