NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five ...
Rocket Lab’s New Zealand success deploys satellites to separate orbits 500km apart for KAIST and NASA
Following payload deployment to two separate orbits, Electron’s Kick Stage completed a final engine burn to lower its altitude and speed up its reentry to help reduce space junk. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) , a global leader in ...
SpaceX’s double success a Starlink smallsats launch and the 300th Falcon booster landing
Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream. On Tuesday, April 23 at 6:17 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites packed inside the fairing atop the 230-foot rocket to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...
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Speedcast’s Singapore Teleport receives WTA Tier 4 certification
Speedcast’s Teleport in Singapore Joins WTA’s Growing List of Tier 4 Certified Teleports The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced that Speedcast has achieved Tier 4 certification of its Singapore Teleport under WTA’s Teleport Certification Program. The Singapore certification marks ...
SES’s O3b mPOWER system begins high-performance connectivity services
SES announced today that O3b mPOWER, its second-generation software-enabled satellite system, is now operational and can provide high-performance connectivity services around the globe. With the first six O3b mPOWER satellites operating at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or 8,000km away from ...
Rocket Lab to receive $32 million from Space Systems Command for spacecraft for Tactically Responsive Space mission
Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle will be used to launch a Rocket Lab-built spacecraft for the Space Systems Command VICTUS HAZE mission. (Photo: Business Wire) Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) announced that it has been selected for a $32M ...
PLD Space has achieved 120 million euros in funding to date
PLD Space has reached 120 million euros in funding to date, thereby ensuring the company can meet upcoming technological and corporate milestones, all culminating in the launch of the MIURA 5 mission at the close of 2025. Since its foundation, ...
BAE Systems-built CloudSat satellite completes nearly two decades-long mission
The BAE Systems-built CloudSat satellite has officially ended operations after more than 17 years on orbit — CloudSat launched in April 2006 as part of a NASA-led mission to develop global cloud profiles to better understand how water and ice ...
ABS appoints a new CEO
ABS recently appointed Mark Rigolle as the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mark Rigolle Mark brings a wealth of experience in the satellite communications sector, having held positions with GEO, MEO and LEO satellite operators in various capacities including executive, ...
Akula Tech qualifies for the XPRIZE Wildfire Challenge
Akula Tech, in partnership with the University of South Australia, Swinburne University of Technology, and AIILA Innovations, has officially qualified for the XPRIZE Wildfire competition’s Space-based Detection and Intelligence Track (Track A) — this qualification marks a significant milestone in the use ...
CACI awarded billions$$$ task order for comms + info tech to USEUCOM + USAFRICOM
CACI International Inc. (NYSE: CACI) has been awarded a five-year task order worth a total estimated value of $1.3 billion to provide communications and information technology expertise to U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). This work continues ...
Strategic agreements integrate Topcon GNSS tech into Bentley Systems + Worldsensing solutions
Topcon Positioning Systems has announced strategic agreements with Bentley Systems and Worldsensing to integrate the company's advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) technology into the companies’ innovative software and connectivity solutions. As part of the agreement with Bentley Systems, Topcon ...
mu Space + RBC Signals sign MoU for satellite ground station facilities project
mu Space and Advance Technology Co., Ltd. has entered into an MOU with RBC Signals International Inc.. The MOU, effective from March 1, 2024, is the start of a collaboration aimed at exploring opportunities related to satellite ground station facilities ...