Tag: Satellite
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Space Pioneer Secures $207 Million for Reusable Rocket, Targets Megaconstellation Contracts
Chinese commercial space company Space Pioneer, also known as Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd, has announced a successful funding round worth more than 1.5 billion yuan ($207 million) on June 6. This investment, termed “C+,” involves at least 15 investors, including private equity and state-linked investment entities. The funding will primarily support the development and…
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Vast and ESA Sign MoU to Collaborate on Future Vast Space Stations
During ILA Berlin, ESA and Vast signed a Memorandum of Understanding for future Vast space stations. The agreement outlines the parties’ intention to foster human spaceflight, science, technology, and commercialization development and explore collaboration in low-earth orbit destinations other than the International Space Station. The collaboration will initially focus on exploring opportunities for access to…
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Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Docks with the International Space Station
NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams successfully docked Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), about 26 hours after launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The astronauts monitored Starliner as it autonomously conducted a series of maneuvers to steadily bring the spacecraft closer to the orbiting laboratory before docking.…
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RTX Supplies Blue Canyon Satellites for NASA PREFIRE Polar Climate Mission
RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission will measure the amount of heat Earth emits into space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Blue Canyon provided two heritage 6U CubeSats…
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SpaceX Starship Achieves Key Milestones with Fourth Successful Flight Test
SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test launched with ambitious goals, attempting to go farther than any previous test before and begin demonstrating capabilities central to the return and reuse of Starship and Super Heavy. The payload for this test was the data. On June 6, 2024, Starship successfully lifted off at 7:50 a.m. CT from Starbase…
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Planet’s First Hyperspectral Satellite Set for Launch on SpaceX Transporter-11 Mission
Planet Labs PBC, one of the leading providers of daily Earth data and insights, announced that its first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1—made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition and its philanthropic partners—is ready for launch. The spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 3rd in preparation for liftoff as early as July on board…
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UN Committee to Probe Satellite Constellation Threat to Astronomy, Overcoming Past Setback
The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) has greenlit a pioneering move to scrutinize the looming risks that satellite constellations pose to astronomy, a year subsequent to a thwarted similar endeavor. Marking a pivotal stride in diplomatic avenues concerning celestial research, COPUOS, in a recent session of its scientific and…
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SES Space & Defense Successfully Demonstrates Commercial LEO Space Data Relay Services
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has announced the successful demonstration of the first multi-orbit, multi-band commercial space relay service in support of the NASA Communications Services Project (CSP). To demonstrate data relay services, SES Space & Defense partnered with Planet Labs, one of the leading providers of global daily Earth data…
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Redwire Begins Construction on Advanced Payload Development Facility in Floyd County, Indiana
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it has officially broken ground on the company’s 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art microgravity payload development and space operations facility at the Novaparke Innovation & Technology Campus in Floyd County, Indiana. Redwire executives were joined by Representative Erin Houchin,…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Second Satellite for NASA’s Climate Science Mission
Rocket Lab USA, one of the global leaders in launch services and space systems, successfully completed the second of two Electron launches for NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) climate change-focused mission, completing a turnaround of two launches within eleven days. ‘PREFIRE and Ice’ lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in…