Tag: Satellite
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Skyservice and Starlink by SpaceX Partners to Offer In-Flight Connectivity Solutions
Skyservice Business Aviation, a provider company of business aviation services, announced its status as an Authorized Starlink Dealer. This collaboration extends the availability of SpaceX Starlink’s fast and reliable, in-flight connectivity to more business aircraft owners and operators. “At Skyservice, we are committed to growing our avionics offerings and ensuring our customers have access to the…
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Neo Space Group to Acquire Airbus’ UP42 Earth Observation Platform
Neo Space Group (NSG), a Public Investment Fund-owned company and Saudi Arabia’s leading commercial space services provider has announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement with Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus) to acquire its UP42 business, a next-generation earth observation digital platform, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including required…
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Northrop Grumman Activates the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission Capabilities with EPS-R Payloads
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully handed over mission operations of Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) satellites and completed activation of U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command’s (SSC) two Enhanced Polar System – Recapitalization (EPS-R) payloads, hosted aboard ASBM. The mission launched in August from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The two ASBM satellites…
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Muon Space Secures Space Force Contract to Enhance Environmental Monitoring from Space
Muon Space, an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates mission-tailored low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, announced that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by SpaceWERX through Space Systems Command (SSC) to advance space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) capabilities. This award will support Muon Space’s development of…
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ISRO’s PSLV Successfully Launches ESA’s Proba-3 Solar Eclipse Mission
ISRO launched the ESA’s Proba-3 on a four-stage PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. It successfully sent the Occulter and Coronagraph spacecraft pair forming the Proba-3 mission into the desired orbit. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S. Somanath congratulated both the PSLV project and Proba-3 teams following the separation of…
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Rocket Lab Schedules Upcoming Launch for Synspective Satellite Deployment
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced a launch window for an upcoming Electron mission to deploy the latest satellite in Synspective’s growing Earth observation constellation. The “Owl The Way Up” mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a launch…
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Trending Magnetometers in 2024
Magnetometers are essential instruments in satellite systems, specifically designed to measure the intensity and direction of magnetic fields. These advanced devices play a critical role in attitude control and determination systems, enabling satellites to orient themselves accurately in space. By detecting variations in Earth’s magnetic field, magnetometers provide valuable data to determine the satellite’s orientation…
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Europe’s Meteosat 3rd-Gen Most Advanced Weather Satellite Became Fully Operational
EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites became fully operational. MTG-Imager 1 also receives a new name, Meteosat-12, to mark the occasion. The two main instruments on board Meteosat-12, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), play a crucial role in enabling meteorological services to help protect lives and livelihoods by providing high-resolution,…
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Intuitive Machines Partners with Johns Hopkins APL for Lunar Communications and Navigation
Intuitive Machines, a leading space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, has announced it has entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to advance safe, secure, and reliable lunar communications and navigation infrastructure in cislunar space. Cislunar space encompasses the region of space that extends from Earth’s gravitational influence…
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Cadence and AST SpaceMobile Collaborate to Advance Space-Based Cellular Broadband
Cadence Design Systems and AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones designed for both commercial and government applications, announced their collaboration to advance AST SpaceMobile’s mission to eliminate connectivity gaps and connect people around the world with high-speed, space-based internet access. The two companies…