Tag: Satellite
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BlackSky Releases High-Resolution, Near-Real-Time Imagery from Newly Launched Gen-3 Satellite
BlackSky Technology delivered the first very high-resolution images from the company’s third Gen-3 satellite less than 24 hours following the satellite’s successful launch in November. The company’s advanced, low-latency commercial architecture is delivering decision-quality data at real-time, mission-relevant speed and meeting growing global demand for flexible, secure tactical ISR capabilities. “BlackSky’s third Gen-3 unit has delivered incredible…
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Hallym University Develops Space Biology Payload – BioCabinet
Chan Hum Park, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Otolaryngology at Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital and Director of the Nano-Bio Regenerative Medical Institute at Hallym University, leads the research team whose space biology payload, BioCabinet, will launch aboard the Nuri rocket’s fourth flight on November 27, as part of the mission carrying the Next-Generation Medium…
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Uncommon Thinkers: How Portal’s Jeff Thornburg plans to harness the heat of the sun in the cold of space
Portal Space Systems CEO Jeff Thornburg checks out the vacuum chamber where space hardware is tested. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Editor’s note: This series profiles six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world. They will be recognized Dec. 11 at the GeekWire Gala. Uncommon Thinkers is presented in…
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Frontgrade Announces Precision Motor Control for Next-Gen Space Missions
Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, announced the release of the RT-SADE (Radiation-Tolerant Solar Array Drive Electronics), a next-generation microprocessor-based stepper motor controller engineered to deliver precision, reliability, and versatility for demanding spacecraft and defense applications. Designed for mission-critical motion control systems such as solar array…
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OQ Technology Delivers Europe’s First Space-Based Mobile Emergency Alert
OQ Technology, a pioneering European direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity provider with 60 MHz of high-priority MSS S-band spectrum, has achieved a major technological milestone using its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to successfully deliver Europe’s first direct-to-mobile emergency broadcast message from space, transmitted directly to standard smartphones without any hardware or software modifications. This…
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DeepBro – Intelligent Downlink Solutions Enhancing LEO Satellite Data Throughput
DeepBro, headquartered in Oro Valley, Arizona (USA), develops next-generation communications systems aimed at transforming how Earth-observation and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites deliver data to the ground. As the volume of imagery, video and sensor data from LEO constellations rapidly increases, DeepBro addresses the bottleneck of satellite downlink by deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and software-defined…
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Amazon Leo starts to roll out its fastest satellite internet service — and reveals just how fast it’ll be
A worker installs an Amazon Leo antenna at a Hunt Energy facility. (Amazon Photo) Amazon Leo — the satellite internet service provider formerly known as Project Kuiper — says it has started shipping its top-of-the-line terminals to select customers for testing. Today’s announcement serves as further evidence that Amazon is closing in on providing space-based,…
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ICEYE and Swedish Space Corporation Sign LOI to Strengthen Nordic and NATO Space-Based ISR Capabilities
ICEYE, a global operator of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to explore closer cooperation on space-based capabilities for Nordic nations and NATO, the companies said. The LOI was signed at the NATO Arctic Space Forum in Helsinki and reflects deeper strategic alignment between…
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UK Space Agency Allocates £7 Million to Advance Next-Generation Satellite Technologies
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has awarded nearly £7 million ($9 million) to five projects developing new satellite communications capabilities under the European Space Agency’s ARTES programme, the agency said on Friday. Funding was allocated to Orbit Fab, Goonhilly Earth Station, Vicinity Technologies, Archangel Lightworks working with Eutelsat, and Viasat UK. The projects focus on…
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Anywaves to Build Advanced Navigation Antenna for ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT Program
As Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (LEO-PNT) initiatives gain momentum worldwide, Europe is advancing its efforts with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Celeste In-Orbit Demonstrator (IOD). Thales Alenia Space, the prime contractor for one of the two consortia developing the IOD, has entrusted Anywaves with the design and delivery of the antennas required…