Tag: Satellite
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Gilmour Space’s First Test Launch of Eris Rocket to Advance Australian Space Capability
Gilmour Space Technologies has completed the maiden test launch of Australia’s first locally designed and built orbital rocket, a major milestone toward offering low-cost, responsive launch services for small satellites globally. The 23-meter, 30-tonne Eris rocket, powered by new hybrid propulsion technology, successfully lifted off from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland, achieving approximately…
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Planet Labs Ships Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 to Launch Site for Upcoming SpaceX Mission
Planet Labs, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced it has shipped its Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites to Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of their launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Planet’s satellite production line is now fully ramped and operational, with multiple Pelican and Tanager satellites currently in…
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Joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite launches from India
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk. II rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre launch site in southeast India. The mission came just over two months after its EOS-09 mission failed aboard a different rocket type. This launch…
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Slingshot Launches TALOS AI for Mission-Ready Space Operations
Slingshot Aerospace, the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, announced the launch of Slingshot TALOS — the Thinking Agent for Logical Operations and Strategy. TALOS is an autonomous, AI-powered agent designed to imitate realistic satellite actions in training and simulation environments. Purpose-built using Slingshot’s behavior cloning…
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BlackSky Advances U.S Navy Contract to Develop Optical Inter-Satellite Links
BlackSky Technology won the next phase of a competitive U.S. Navy research contract to further develop optical inter-satellite link (OISL) terminal applications for its Gen-3 constellation. The OISL terminals are expected to increase the speed at which very high-resolution imagery and other high-volume space-based data travel directly between satellites before downlinking to ground stations. “This important…
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SFL Missions Awarded Contract to Develop AISSat-4 for Norwegian Maritime Monitoring System
The Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) has awarded a contract to SFL Missions Inc. to develop the AISSat-4 maritime ship tracking microsatellite for launch in less than one year. AISSat-4 is needed to expand operational capacity in Norway’s maritime situational awareness network. AISSat-4 is being developed on SFL’s SPARTAN 6U nanosatellite platform and will carry a…
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Journey and Starlab Partners to Design the Commercial Space Station Experience
Starlab Space, global joint venture among Voyager Technologies, Airbus, Mitsubishi Corporation, MDA Space and Palantir Technologies, announced a strategic partnership with Journey, a multidimensional experience agency, that will help shape the interior and experiential design of the next-generation commercial space station. Journey joins Hilton and Airbus in developing a station environment that enhances the way…
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Spire Global Secures European Space Agency to Deliver Weather Data from Space
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, was awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Third Party Mission (TPM) programme to supply historical weather data collected by its satellites. Under the programme, European researchers will have access to Spire’s historical Earth intelligence data, including GNSS-Reflectometry and…
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Boeing’s X-37B Sets for Eighth Mission Launch in August from Florida’s Space Coast
The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is preparing to launch its eighth mission (OTV-8) from Florida’s Space Coast, with liftoff scheduled no earlier than August 21. This milestone comes less than six months after the successful completion of OTV-7. “With each successive flight, the X-37B has demonstrated adaptability and flexibility by hosting diverse experiments and pioneering…
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SES and Luxembourg to Develop GovSat-2 to Expand Secure Government Connectivity
SES and the Luxembourg Government announced their plan for the development of a second satellite for GovSat (LuxGovSat S.A.), the public-private partnership and 50/50 joint venture between SES and the Luxembourg Government that provides secure, reliable, and accessible satellite communication services for governments. GovSat-2 will be positioned over the European satellite arc. It will join GovSat-1…