Tag: Launch
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Rocket Report: Starship could fly again in May; Ariane 6 coming together
Welcome to Edition 6.36 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX wants to launch the next Starship test flight as soon as early May, the company’s president and chief operating officer said this week. The third Starship test flight last week went well enough that the Federal Aviation Administration—yes, the FAA, the target of many SpaceX fans’…
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NASA Science and Hardware Launch Aboard SpaceX’s 30th Resupply Mission to the ISS
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are on the way to the International Space Station, including studies of technologies to measure sea ice and plant growth in space. SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the…
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NEC and Skyloom to Revolutionize Space Communications with 100 Gbps Optical Terminals
NEC Corporation and Skyloom Global Corporation have joined forces to revolutionize space communications with the development of cutting-edge optical communication equipment for multi-orbit satellite networks. The collaboration aims to commercialize and make available on the open market one of the world’s fastest space optical terminals, achieving remarkable high-speed inter-satellite communications of 100 Gbps and more, propelling…
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Firefly Aerospace Selected by Defense Innovation Unit to Demonstrate Launch and On-Orbit Services
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to conduct a trade study on its capabilities to rapidly launch Firefly’s Elytra vehicles and support missions beyond Geosynchronous Orbit, referred to as xGEO. Once complete, the trade study will provide the groundwork for…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches NROL-123 Mission for National Reconnaissance Office
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, successfully launched a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia. The NROL-123 mission, called ‘Live and Let Fly’, was launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle at 03:25 EDT on March 21,…
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Orbit Fab’s RAFTI Fueling Port Becomes First Flight-Qualified Interface for In-Space Refueling
Orbit Fab, the premier provider of on-orbit refueling services, announced its RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface) fueling port is the first refueling interface to be flight-qualified. Following years of development, RAFTI has successfully completed a battery of stringent qualification tests and is ready for launch site fueling and in-space refueling of satellites of any…
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Sierra Space Solar Panels Powers Sidus Space’s LizzieSat Satellite in Low Earth Orbit
Sierra Space, a commercial space company and emerging defense tech prime building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth has achieved yet another milestone in space technology by providing the cutting-edge solar technology that powers Sidus Space’s first LizzieSat satellite, which successfully launched and deployed to Low Earth Orbit on March…
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Aerospacelab and Xona Space Systems Collaborate to Revolutionize Navigation Satellite Systems
Aerospacelab, one of the leading companies in small satellite design, manufacturing, and operations, and Xona Space Systems, a pioneering service provider in high-performance navigation satellite systems, are pleased to announce they have entered into a groundbreaking partnership. The collaboration between the two companies marks a significant step forward in the evolution of satellite technology spearheaded…
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Thales Alenia Space Secures ESA Contract for LEO-PNT Orbit Demonstrator
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a contract with the European Space Agency to deliver an end-to-end solution for the LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning Navigation and Timing) orbit demonstrator. This contract includes the space (5 satellites to be launched), ground and users segments, the in orbit operations…
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SkyServe Partners with Loft Orbital to Deploy its AI-Edge Computing Platform on YAM-6
SkyServe and Loft Orbital have joined forces for Mission Denali to deploy SkyServe STORM, SkyServe’s in-space edge computing platform on YAM-6. Mission Denali will leverage Sensing and Compute Resources on YAM-6 to deliver insights from space. By processing multispectral and hyperspectral data in real time, SkyServe STORM is defining the paradigm of space-based data processing, delivering…