Tag: Satellite
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Muon Space Launches FireSat Protoflight to Revolutionize Wildfire Detection
Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider, has successfully launched the FireSat Protoflight satellite, marking a significant milestone in the deployment of the FireSat constellation. This groundbreaking initiative aims to transform global wildfire detection, monitoring, and response. Designed and built by Muon Space, including its state-of-the-art six-channel multispectral infrared (IR) instrument, FireSat showcases the company’s…
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Kongsberg NanoAvionics Deploys First Satellite for Norway’s N3X Maritime Surveillance Constellation
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has successfully launched the first of three initial microsatellites for Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace’s N3X constellation. The launch is part of a five-year contract awarded in 2024 by the Norwegian Armed Forces to KONGSBERG for providing maritime surveillance data. The ARVAKER I satellite was launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission from Vandenberg Space…
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MDA Space Signs Agreement with SatixFy for Engineering Models and Space Grade Chipsets
SatixFy Communications, a leader in next-generation satellite communication systems based on in-house-designed chipsets, announced the receipt of a purchase order from MDA Space of approximately $6.7 million for engineering models and space-grade chips, alongside signing an amended Authorization to Proceed (ATP) agreement for an additional $3.5 million for engineering work and an amendment to the…
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Rocket Lab Unveils Satellite Software for Ground Data and Spacecraft Operations
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced InterMission and MAX Constellation, two next-generation software suites that build on successful missions to the Moon and beyond to deliver advanced autonomy, security, and scalability for complex space missions and constellation operations. The new platforms were introduced at the SATELLITE conference in Washington,…
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Ursa Major to Provide Chemical Propulsion for Tactical Satellite Bus Systems
Ursa Major has been awarded a contract for delivery of fully integrated GEO propulsion systems for a customer focused on critical space missions. The multi-year award totaling $10 to $15 million supports the development, manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing of a full propulsion system capable of six degree-of-freedom maneuverability. Building upon successful flights for hypersonic…
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BlackSky Delivers 1st AI-Enabled Analytics Derived from Gen-3 Imagery
BlackSky Technology, a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world, has delivered its first AI-enabled analytics derived from new, very high-resolution imagery captured by the company’s first Gen-3 satellite three weeks after its successful…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 61st Electron Mission
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, successfully launched its second mission for a Japanese customer, the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). ‘The Lightning God Reigns’ mission lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 1:00 p.m. NZDT (00:00 UTC) on March 15, 2025,…
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Sidus Space Launched AI-Powered LizzieSat-3 on SpaceX Transporter-13 Mission
Liftoff of the Sidus Space, an innovative, agile space mission enabler, LizzieSat-3 is targeted for a launch window that opens, on March 14, 2025, at 11:39 PM PDT. The satellite will launch as part of the Transporter-13 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. LizzieSat-3 is…
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ICEYE Expands SAR Satellite Fleet with Gen4 for Advanced Earth & Defense Imaging
ICEYE, the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging for high-fidelity Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully launched four new 25 cm resolution satellites, strengthening the company’s SAR satellite constellation, the largest in the world. Among the satellites was ICEYE’s Generation 4 satellite (Gen4), marking another leap in the…
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Airbus Awards Rocket Lab Contract to Power OneWeb Constellation for Eutelsat
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced its selection by Airbus Constellation Satellites to provide high-efficiency, space-grade solar panels for 100 OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for Eutelsat Group. OneWeb satellites are designed to provide high-speed, low-latency global Internet access to remote and underserved areas. Rocket Lab will provide…