Tag: Satellite
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Thales Alenia Space Secures CNES-DGA Contract for DESIR Mission’s Payload and Ground Segment
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced that it has been awarded a contract by the French Space Agency (CNES), in partnership with the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), for the DESIR program (Démonstrateur des Éléments Souverains d’Imagerie Radar*). The contract covers the development and realisation of the radar…
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AST SpaceMobile Announces BlueBird 7 Orbital Launch and Advancing D2D Cellular Connectivity
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones for commercial and government use, announced the launch timing for its BlueBird 7 mission. The launch is scheduled for late February from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch…
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Aalyria Selected by US Air Force Research Laboratory for SDNX Program
Aalyria, a leader in advanced network orchestration, has been selected by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development (RAPID) program to advance software solutions for managing complex military space communications networks. Under the Space Data Network Experimentation (SDNX) program – awarded through AFRL’s Space Technology Advanced Research Fast-tracking Innovative Software…
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Teledyne’s Detectors Launched Aboard NASA’s BlackCAT CubeSat Mission
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, a leading provider of advanced imaging solutions, is proud to announce that the Space Imaging division has successfully deployed the cutting-edge Speedster HyViSI (Hybrid Visible Silicon Imager) Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) aboard NASA’s BlackCAT CubeSat Mission. The mission launched on January 11, 2026, aboard SpaceX’s “Twilight” rideshare mission. The BlackCAT mission, led…
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PowerBank Corporation Unveils Real-Time Satellite Tracking Dashboard
PowerBank Corporation, a North American renewable energy company focused on solar energy infrastructure, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and advanced data centre solutions, emphasised the role of Orbit AI’s publicly accessible real-time satellite tracking dashboard as a reference point for monitoring the on-orbit status and uptime of Orbit AI’s Genesis-1 satellite. Genesis-1 operates using space…
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XMW Expands Ka-Band Block Up Converter Portfolio for Advanced SATCOM Uplinks
XMW, a South Korea–based manufacturer of RF and microwave components, is highlighting the established portfolio of Ka-band Block Up Converters (BUCs) designed to support high-frequency satellite uplink applications across commercial, government and defense markets. The company’s Ka-band BUCs are already deployed in operational ground systems and address the growing demand for higher throughput, spectrum efficiency…
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Infostellar and Antaris Simplify Satellite Operations with Integrated Ground Segment and API Automation
Infostellar, a leading provider of cloud-native ground segment services, and Antaris, the leading AI for Space platform for the design, simulation, manufacturing, and operation of satellite constellations and space missions, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to enable automated satellite operations by integrating cloud-native ground station services with software-defined mission planning and…
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Ukraine Expands Partnership with ICEYE for Space-based Intelligence
ICEYE, the leader in European defense tech and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations, and a customer within the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine have signed a new agreement to significantly expand their cooperation in space-based intelligence. The agreement ensures that the Ministry of Defence continues to receive a high volume of high-resolution satellite imagery…
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Starfish Space Wins SDA Contract for First-Ever Satellite Deorbit-as-a-Service Mission
Starfish Space announced it has been awarded a $52.5 million contract by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to provide Deorbit-as-a-Service (DaaS) for satellites within the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), marking the first contracted mission for end-of-life satellite disposal service in history. Under the contract, Starfish Space will build, launch, and operate…
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Loft Selected Prime Contractor for France’s Inaugural Space Radar Imaging Program
Loft announced a notification by the French Space Agency (CNES) and the Directorate General of Armaments / DGA of a contract for the development and operation of the DESIR program (Sovereign Radar Imaging Elements Demonstration). The program aims to provide France with its first sovereign space-based radar imaging (SAR) capability and represents a major milestone…