Tag: Launch
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INTEGRASYS Secures ESA’s Payload Comsec Transec Performance Testbed Project for Iris2 Payloads
European Space Agency has awarded INTEGRASYS with the Payload Comsec/Transec Performance Testbed project. ESA is supporting the European Commission with the development of Govsatcom-driven technologies under the Connectivity Secure Communications (CSC) framework. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Electronic Warfare, Jamming, and Antijamming have been very warm topics, therefore governments, Ministries of Defense, and Agencies…
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GMV Awarded Contract from ESA to Lead LEO PNT End-to-End In-Orbit Demonstrator Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a 78,4-million-euro contract to GMV to develop key technologies and demonstrate the benefits of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT). Satellite navigation has traditionally relied on satellites at medium Earth orbit (MEO), but future navigation systems will adopt a multi-layer, system of systems architecture…
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iLAuNCH Trailblazer Initiative’s Multi Metal 3D Printer to Boost Aerospace Manufacturing
The commissioning of a new multi metal 3D printer in Melbourne as part of the iLAuNCH Trailblazer initiative is set to make space missions more affordable and efficient by creating lighter, faster and more robust aerospace components. The Nikon SLM-280 (Selective Laser Melting) at CSIRO’s Lab22 facility will print metals side-by-side in one continuous print. …
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ISRO Achieves Milestone with Successful Reusable Launch Vehicle Landing Experiment
ISRO has achieved a major milestone in the area of Reusable launch vehicle (RLV) technology, through the RLV LEX-02 landing experiment, the second of the series, conducted at Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga in Karnataka on March 22, 2024, at 7:10 hrs IST. After the RLV-LEX-01 mission was accomplished last year, RLV-LEX-02 demonstrated the autonomous…
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Astranis Partners with Orbith to Launch a Dedicated MicroGEO Satellite for Argentina
Astranis has announced its new partnership with Orbith, a fast-growing, Latin American Internet Service Provider, to provide a dedicated MicroGEO communications satellite for Argentina. This deal is an exciting opportunity in a country that has proven its openness to disruptive technologies and ideas. This new partnership with Orbith is a great opportunity to expand Astranis…
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UK Space Agency to Open New Headquarters in Harwell Science Campus Space Cluster
The UK Space Agency is opening new headquarters in Harwell, Oxfordshire, and regional offices in Scotland, Wales, and the Midlands as it works to support the space sector across the UK. Aligned with the government’s Levelling Up strategy, the expansion will enable the Agency to collaborate more closely with the UK’s thriving space sector, while…
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Astrobotic’s Xodiac Completes First Night Flight in Preparation for NASA’s TechLeap Challenge
Astrobotic’s Propulsion & Test department flew Xodiac, a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL) reusable terrestrial rocket, for its first-ever night flight. The tethered night test prepared Xodiac for upcoming flight testing with the NASA TechLeap Prize’s Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge, managed by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program. TechLeap is designed to rapidly identify and develop technologies of interest…
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Apex Releases Satellite Selfie Following Successful First Payload Commissioning
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, released its “satellite selfie,” an image taken by its Aries SN1 spacecraft. The photograph was taken by a payload owned by Apex, which completed commissioning last week. The image was taken by a camera mounted on the satellite bus’s payload deck. The camera captures one of the deployed solar…
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NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson and Crewmates Launch to the International Space Station
Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson successfully launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT on March 23, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Dyson, along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, will dock to the space station’s Prichal module at…
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Startical to Test its Air Traffic Surveillance Systems on NanoAvionics-Built Satellite
Startical, the company created by ENAIRE, Europe’s fourth-largest air navigation services provider, and Indra, a technological company and one of the world’s leading providers of air traffic systems, will use a satellite produced by Kongsberg NanoAvionics, a leading small satellite company, and mission integrator, to test the systems of its future constellation of over 270…