Tag: Launch
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Exolaunch Announces Agreement with Sateliot for Launch and Deployment of 5G NB-IoT Satellites
Exolaunch, a global leader in launch mission management, integration, and satellite deployment services, today announced a new launch and deployment services agreement with Sateliot, the first company to operate a low Earth orbit (LEO) 5G NB-IoT satellite constellation based in Barcelona, Spain and San Diego, California, marking the first collaboration between the two companies. Sateliot…
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WISeKey’s WISeSat.Space Leads Innovation in IoT Satellites for Climate Change Monitoring
WISeKey International Holding, a global company in cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT) innovations, operating as a holding company announced that through its subsidiary WISeSat AG, which focuses on space technology for secure satellite communication, specifically for IoT applications, is pioneering IoT satellite constellations aimed at climate change monitoring. In recent years, space…
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Airbus Delivers First Active Transmit Antenna for Hisdesat’s SpainSat NG-I Satellite
Acceptance testing of the active transmit antenna for Hisdesat’s SpainSat NG-I satellite has been successfully completed following the final radiation pattern tests. The antenna is now being integrated into the satellite at the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France. Once integrated, the antenna and satellite will undergo thermal vacuum tests (TVAC) and then vibration tests. The…
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Starfish Space Awarded $37.5 Million Contract by SSC for Satellite Augmented Maneuver Mission
Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Starfish Space a $37.5 million Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract to build, launch, and operate an Otter satellite vehicle for a first-of-its-kind docking mission designed to provide two years of augmented maneuver for National Security Space assets. Through a partnership with Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) SpaceWERX Program, Starfish Space,…
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Pasqal and Thales Achieve Milestone in Satellite Planning with Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing
Pasqal, a global leader in neutral atom quantum computing, in partnership with Thales, announced a major advancement within the AQUAPS project. This innovative project aimed to explore neutral atom architectures to solve optimization problems, with a particular focus on satellite planning. For the past three years, the teams from Pasqal and Thales, supported by the…
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Blue Origin Successfully Completes 25th Space Mission for the New Shepard Program
Blue Origin successfully completed its seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight, who was selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as the nation’s first Black astronaut…
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SatVu Drives Expansion Plans by Signing Contracts for HotSat-2 and HotSat-3 Satellites
SatVu has announced significant advancements in its satellite program and expansion efforts – continuing its mission to capture the highest resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth. The signing of the contract for its next-generation satellite, HotSat-2, marks a huge milestone for SatVu. Building upon the success of the pathfinder…
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Astrobotic Selected by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program to Support Future Mars Missions
Astrobotic has been selected by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program for two concept studies of commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to Mars. The company will examine how potential commercial services, both payload delivery and surface imaging, could enable future science missions to the Red Planet. The two studies — one for large payload delivery…
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Aitech Provides Crucial Flight Computers and Peripherals to Sidus Space for LizzieSat Mission
Aitech Systems, one of the leading providers of rugged boards and system-level solutions for military, aerospace, and space applications, has successfully provided a complete system of command and data handling (C&DH) flight computers and peripherals to Sidus Space for the LizzieSat satellite, that has successfully launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission on March 4th. This…
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NASA and the European Space Agency Sign an Agreement to Land Europe’s Rover on Mars
NASA and the European Space Agency announced they signed an agreement to expand NASA’s work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, an ESA-led mission launching in 2028 that will search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. With this memorandum of understanding, the NASA Launch Services Program will procure a U.S. commercial launch…