Tag: LEO
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AT&T and AST SpaceMobile Partner to Provide Space-Based Broadband Network to Cell Phones
AT&T and AST SpaceMobile have entered a definitive commercial agreement to provide a space-based broadband network direct to everyday cell phones. This agreement extends until 2030. Previously the companies were working together under a Memorandum of Understanding. This is not just one small step, but one giant leap towards enhanced connectivity for consumers and businesses…
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Thales Alenia Space Achieves Key Milestone in the Development of Galileo Second Generation
Thales Alenia Space has reached another important milestone in the development of Galileo Second Generation with the successful completion of the Satellite Critical Design Review (SCDR) Board. With the unrelenting efforts of all participants, the SCDR was recently held after verifying the test and design progress. The final phase of the review got underway on…
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Redwire Introduces New European-Built Very Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Platform
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced Phantom, a new European Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) spacecraft platform. Phantom is being developed at Redwire’s facility in Belgium and is designed to carry out a wide array of intelligence, Earth science, and communications missions. Phantom joins Redwire’s…
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UK Space Agency Awards £1.8 Million to British Organizations to Boost Tech Innovations
New funding from the UK Space Agency is backing technologies to help satellites measure our changing shorelines, estimate levels of biomass, predict weather forecasting and manufacture medicines in space. The £1.8 million injection, divided across nine individual projects, rounds off the final phase of the Agency’s Enabling Technologies Programme (ETP), designed to give a boost…
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Xona Space Systems Secures $19M in Funding for its Cutting-Edge Satellite Navigation Service
Xona a company developing a network of small satellites to provide high-precision navigation services announced an oversubscribed $19 million Series A funding round led by Future Ventures and Seraphim Space. New investors NGP Capital, Industrious Ventures, Murata Electronics, Space Capital, and Aloniq also joined the round. This funding will be used to accelerate the deployment…
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Muon Space and Earth Fire Alliance Reveal FireSat Constellation for Global Wildfire Response
Muon Space, an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates mission-tailored low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, in partnership with Earth Fire Alliance (EFA), has announced the launch of FireSat Constellation. This groundbreaking initiative aims to transform global wildfire response and enhance climate resilience worldwide. FireSat has been developed over the last five…
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SpaceX Unveils Extravehicular Activity Suit for Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Program
SpaceX unveiled the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit that the Polaris Dawn crew will wear during their mission. Approximately 700 km above Earth, the SpaceX EVA suit will support the Polaris Dawn crew in the vacuum of space during the first-ever commercial astronaut spacewalk. Evolved from the Intravehicular Activity (IVA) suit, the EVA suit provides greater…
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Sierra Space to Lead the Industry in First Business-Ready Space Station Development
Sierra Space, one of the leading commercial space-tech companies and next-generation defense-tech prime building a platform in space to benefit life on Earth and protect the freedom of economic activity in the Orbital Age, has announced that its expandable space station technology is scheduled for its seventh key validation test, and second full-scale structural test,…
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Beyond Gravity Supplies Key Products for New European Navigation Satellites
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) will deliver key products like thermal insulation, the mechanisms for solar array wings and thruster pointing, the satellite structure, and the thermal insulation to the next generation of European navigation satellites. Two more European Galileo navigation satellites were launched into space and In parallel, work on the second generation of…
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Arianespace Selected to Launch Second-Generation Galileo Satellites on Ariane 6
The European Commission and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) will entrust Arianespace with the launch of four new satellites for the Galileo navigation constellation. This order brings to five the total number of launches scheduled onboard Ariane 6 for Europe’s ultra-high performance Galileo satellite navigation system: the last three launches of…