Tag: Launch
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SpaceX is about to launch Starship again—the FAA will be more forgiving this time
The Federal Aviation Administration approved the commercial launch license for the fourth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket Tuesday, with liftoff from South Texas targeted for just after sunrise Thursday. “The FAA has approved a license authorization for SpaceX Starship Flight 4,” the agency said in a statement. “SpaceX met all safety and other licensing…
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Arkisys’ Applique Technology Achieves Flight Heritage on Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1
Sidus Space, a multi-faceted Space and Data-as-a-Service satellite company, announced in conjunction with Arkisys, the successful completion of a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract deliverable and the achievement of flight heritage status for Arkisys Applique aboard LizzieSat-1. Arkisys is a creator of spacecraft architectures and platform solutions that open up in-space services. Arkisys integrated their…
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MDA Space Secures Contract for Square Kilometre Array Project
MDA Space, a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to support the development, construction and integration of game-changing radio telescope technology for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), an international space exploration and astronomy project…
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NASA to Provide Coverage for Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch, Docking to Station
NASA, an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research, will provide live coverage of launch activities for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the International Space Station. Launch of the ULA…
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Scout Space’s Optical Payload System Successfully Captures First In-Space Image
Scout Space, one of the leading in-space observation service providers focused on space security and comprehensive Space Domain Awareness (SDA), announced its optical payload dubbed “Sparrow,” launched aboard the Apex Aries bus on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission in March 2024, has successfully completed commissioning and captured its first in-space calibration image. This achievement represents the…
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SES Launches Open Orbits Inflight Connectivity Network with Satellite Network Operators
SES announced that it has reached agreements-in-principle with several regional satellite network operators to launch the SES Open Orbits Inflight Connectivity (IFC) Network to enable seamless connectivity services to airlines around the world. This fully interoperable Ka-band platform will combine the geostationary earth orbit (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite networks of SES; NEO…
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Ursa Major Successfully Conducts Hotfire Test of its Draper Engine
Ursa Major announced the successful March hot fire of its Draper engine at the company’s headquarters in Berthoud, Colorado – a huge milestone for the liquid engine. The development of Draper was announced in May 2023, and with an ambitious goal of hot firing Draper within 12 months, the engine is well ahead of schedule,…
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HawkEye 360 Opens New Vibration Testing Facility for Testing its Satellite Clusters
HawkEye 360, one of the leading providers of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, is excited to announce the opening of a new Vibration Testing Facility within its 19,000-square-foot advanced R&D, engineering, and manufacturing facility. This new capability will be essential for vibration testing of satellite clusters, ensuring they meet the highest durability and…
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Boeing’s Starliner test flight scrubbed again after hold in final countdown
A computer controlling the Atlas V rocket’s countdown triggered an automatic hold less than four minutes prior to liftoff of Boeing’s commercial Starliner spacecraft Saturday, keeping the crew test flight on the ground at least a few more days. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were already aboard the spacecraft when the countdown stopped…
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LEOcloud to Demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service Onboard the ISS
The Center for Advancement of Science in Space, who manages the International Space Station National Laboratory (through a cooperative agreement with NASA), has awarded LEOcloud a technology advancement and commercialization project to demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering onboard the orbiting outpost. LEOcloud’s “Cloud ENIAC” project scope includes the deployment and…